Tue, 05 Oct 2004 00:52:10 +0200, Omry Yadan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You are exaggerating, java is compiled for Linux, and working > natively. yes, sun does not officially support debian, but its pretty > much guarantied to work on a any system which is as Linux as the > intersection between the two Linux distributions sun does officially > support, practically meaning any Linux. Which arches? Debian support: . Intel x86 / IA-32 (« i386 ») . Motorola 68k (« m68k ») . Sun SPARC (« sparc ») . Alpha (« alpha ») . Motorola/IBM PowerPC (« powerpc ») . ARM (« arm ») . MIPS (« mips » and « mipsel ») . HP PA-RISC (« hppa ») . IA-64 (« ia64 ») . S/390 (« s390 ») . AMD64 and SuperH are in progress and Debian support non-linux distributions: . Debian GNU/Hurd (« hurd-i386 ») . Debian GNU/NetBSD (« netbsd-i386 » and « netbsd-alpha ») . Debian GNU/KFreeBSD (« kfreebsd-gnu ») For their latest JDK, Sun supports: . Windows i586 . Linux i586 . Solaris SPARC 32-bits . Solaris SPARC 64-bits . Solaris x86 . Linux AMD64 According to IBM[1]: «The next major release of the IBM Developer Kits will be at the Java 2 Standard Edition version 5.0 level (previously referred to as 1.5.0), which includes significant functional enhancements as well as upgraded Java Virtual Machine and Just-in-Time Compiler capabilities. It is likely that the IBM 5.0 Developer Kits will become available during 2005.» For JDK1.4.2, IBM supports: . AIX -- PowerPC 32-bit and PowerPC 64-bit . zOS 31-bit . zOS 64-bit (available soon) . AS/400 on iSeries . Windows 32-bit on IA32, 64-bit on Itanium2 (64-bit for AMD Opteron / Intel EM64T soon) . Linux 32-bit on IA32, 64-bit on Itanium2, (64-bit for AMD Opteron / Intel EM64T soon) . Linux on PowerPC -- both 32-bit and 64-bit . Linux on zSeries -- 32-bit and 64-bit It's fun to see that you must add two major IT company to have the same offer than free software ;-) (ok, joking ;-)). Maybe Debian can talk with IBM about having their JDK's in Debian as they also do a lot of things for free software and it can be a stone in the Sun's garden (french expression, don't know if it's understandable?! ;-))... Does someone has a contact at IBM/Java? [1] http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/other/portingplans.html -- .''`. : :' :rnaud `. `' `-
