Funky stuff. Ruva: A simple stack-based virtual machine implementation written entirely in Ruby which uses GNU Classpath as core library implementation.

As always GNU Classpath and Friends will come to Fosdem (Brussels, Belgium, 24/25 February) to discuss “the state of the world”. Obviously one big event going on in 2007 will be the OpenJDK project and figuring out how to work together. Normally we call this meeting “Escape the Java Trap”, but with Sun’s recent announcement it is clear the trap is being smashed at a very high speed now and our focus should be much more on the future of collaboration. So we decided to combine the original meeting with the traditional GNU/Linux distro DevJam meeting and the OpenJDK people. Bringing you three sessions on GNU Classpath, OpenJDK and Packaging. Hopefully we will still all fit in the same room :)

Tom Marble from Sun/OpenJDK posted some reasons you should be there. So come and join us!

MIDPath provides a MIDP2 implementation on top of the SDL and SDLJava libraries. It targets free JVMs working with GNU Classpath: Cacao, Kaffe, JamVM. The code is based on phoneME, the free implementation of MIDP2 from Sun. MIDPath is released under the GPL.

Now you can play all those cool java phone games on your desktop using free sofware :)

Last week GNU Classpath 0.93 “Dreamland” was finally released. As always this is the best release ever! The screenshots look really nice. And you should really go through the very extensive release notes which discuss everything. Highlights of new features in this release, pointers to supported applications and screenshots, the status and future of the 1.4 and 1.5 generics branches. An update on the Summer of Code student work. Plus some prelimenary ideas on cooperating with the Sun GPL OpenJDK Java project. And the GNU Classpath commitments to the Free Software community for the future of various projects around GNU Classpath, the users and GNU/Linux distros relying on our work.

Go team!

FSF year-end fund-raiser

The FSF is doing a
year-end fund-raiser for their 2007 campaigns for software
freedom. Their target is 300 new FSF members. So, if you
aren’t a FSF member please consider becoming one now. And if
you do it through the following link I might actually get
RMS on
my answering machine! How cool is that? :) So don’t
wait, click now!

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