OpenJDK in Fedora 9!

2008 March 13
by Lillian

java-1.6.0-openjdk has made the F9 Beta deadline. This package will replace java-1.7.0-icedtea.

“OpenJDK contributes ~99% of the code in the java-1.6.0-openjdk package and IcedTea continues to provide autotools support, a portable interpreter for ppc and ppc64 support, plugin support, Web Start support and patches to integrate OpenJDK into Fedora. The IcedTea sources are included in the java-1.6.0-openjdk SRPM.” – Fedora Release Notes.

from → IcedTea, Java

3 Responses leave one →
  1. 2008 March 20
    Mark Reinhold permalink

    Excellent! Thanks, Lillian, for all your hard work on this.

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