>Fedora is a community project - if people want to pitch in to integrate >Sun's Java more easily, great, I'm all for it. > >As it is distributed, the license is still restrictive and none of the >repositories will touch the packaging which means that you have to get >the software from Sun and rely upon their assistance (which is minimal) >to install / integrate. > >In the meantime, Red Hat and Fedora are distributing a free version that >mostly works, on all platforms, without restrictive licensing, thereby >providing a working Tomcat, Eclipse, etc. I guess I fail to see what the >complaint is. > >I don't recall ever seeing you post on something that you couldn't get >done with the GCJ version so I suspect that you are just downloading and >playing with the Sun version of Java because you think you need to do >that. > >To the OP, I think I gave you a reasonable method to install either >Sun's JDK or JRE and to create the environmental variables so that each >user has full access to the Sun version. > >Craig Actually, Sun's Java is very easy to install and configure on both 32 and 64 bit. The only real problem is the lack of a 64bit browser plugin and as far as I can tell nspluginwrapper doesn't work with the 32bit version. I did a short page on how to set up Sun's Java on F8; http://www.knutejohnson.com/sun-java-on-F8.html -- Knute Johnson Molon Labe...
