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skottish

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Fedora has Java 7

I'm unclear about the completeness of this, but it seems that Fedora has Java 7 (1.7) in their repos. Icedtea 1.5 was released on 01/03/2008. Hopefully some sort of browser plug-in is functioning here.

Icedtea info: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/IcedTea
Java 7 for Fedora: http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/fedora/
Icedtea sources: http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/

Last edited by skottish (2008-01-05 21:33:21)

somairotevoli

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Re: Fedora has Java 7

there is no java 7 afaik. where do you get 1.7=7?
Java's site only list version 6 update 3.

avoulk

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Re: Fedora has Java 7

Isn't it openjava?

skottish

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Re: Fedora has Java 7

there is no java 7 afaik. where do you get 1.7=7?
Java's site only list version 6 update 3.

Java 6 is Java 1.6:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history

Isn't it openjava?

OpenJDK which isn't quite open yet. There is still some closed source proprietary code in it: http://openjdk.java.net/

That's where Red Hat came in. They're responsible for replacing the closed source stuff still left. Ice Tea is a combination of 'Classpath' (GNU at the end) and Sun's code.

Last edited by skottish (2008-01-06 01:32:16)

gummibaerchen

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Re: Fedora has Java 7

I also think that Java 7 / 1.7 (what ever you call it) is not finished yet.

skottish

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Re: Fedora has Java 7

I also think that Java 7 / 1.7 (what ever you call it) is not finished yet.

Of course. Certainly it won't be finished until Sun releases it. I just thought that it was interesting that it had come so far. As a side note: Arch PPC has a snapshot of Iced Tea in their repos. It would be nice to hear from some of its users on first impressions.

hussam

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Re: Fedora has Java 7

I'm running jdk7_b24 on my machine. It's a lot faster than jdk6/jre6 and gcj.

skottish

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Re: Fedora has Java 7

I'm running jdk7_b24 on my machine. It's a lot faster than jdk6/jre6 and gcj.

Thanks for responding. Is it handling applets well? Have you seen any that don't work correctly yet?