On Thursday 03 January 2008 09:21:32 am Karl Larsen wrote: > Here is what Fedora leaders need to do to end the java problems on > Fedora. Here are things that need to happen. > > 1. Contact Sun Inc. and make sure they continue to package the free > package: "jre-6u3-linux-i586-rpm.bin" and any new improvements in the > future. We need to have Fedora docs that explain how to unpack this odd > file. It might be part of the install instructions. Fedora will not ever accept a propietory piece of software so suns java will never be acceptable. I had jedit working in under 5 minutes using Iced Tea. without doing anything special. > 2. Next the small wimpy java 1.51 which is of no use to a serious java > user should not be made available to the user.Instead there should be > dummy /usr/java/default/bin/java file which will print out "Java not > installed" if you press java in a Terminal. There needs to be a link > between /etc/alternatives/java to /usr/java/default/bin/java. this is seriously dumb we have iced tea now which is Java 7 in an entirelly free form. I suggest that you spend more time reading and learning what you are doing than ranting about things which you clearly are not knowledgeable on Dennis
