Re: jdk 1.3

[Kalle Hasselström]

On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 12:21:35PM +0200, Olivier Bourgeois wrote:
> Le Fri, 10 Aug 2001 12:12:25 +0200
> Kalle Hasselström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a ecrit :
> 
> > What packages supply jdk 1.3? Are there any packages at all of sun's
> > jdk, or is it not free enough?
> > 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> personally I'm using blackdown jdk version 1.3.1 . It is supplied as a
> debian package. I added this to my sources.list :
> 
> deb ftp://ftp.oleane.net/pub/java-linux/debian potato non-free
> 
> You should take a look at the mirrors list :
> 
> http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/mirrors.html
> 

Thanks, it works great! Though with no local mirror, the download was
kinda slow. :-(

Who exactly are blackdown? Are they making their own jvm and stuff, or
do they tweak sun's code or what? (And in that case, why?)

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