Category Archives: General

Spam protection considered harmful?

I wanted to read some blog entry today I got a lot of 403 errors. I thought this is strange that bloggers deny access to their readers. So I wanted to blog about this. So I wanted to access my … Continue reading

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New Eclipse committer

I have been approved as Committer for the <a href=”http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Linux_Distributions_Project”>Eclipse Linux Distributions Project</a>. This project aims to improve <a href=”http://www.eclipse.org”>Eclipse</a> on Linux distrubutions, make it work better on the the system and make development for Linux easier. Main distributions working … Continue reading

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Experimental GNU classpath snapshots

Inspired by a blog post from Anthony Green about gcjwebplugin uploaded for FedoraCore 5 I created an experimental package for GNU classpath based on CVS. It includes the latest fixes for AWT/Swing. This means the new CairoGraphics2D implementation is used … Continue reading

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SUN JDK in Debian non-free

As most people know already SUN JDK is now included in the non-free section of Debian. There where much discussions about the license of the JDK. To me its very questionable in its current state. For sure it would be … Continue reading

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Fwd: Hacking for beer!

As Robert Schuster stats in his blog we are looking for people who can help with porting issues of GCJ and other free runtimes for Java. For example we have problems with GCJ on arm, hppa, mips/el and m68k in … Continue reading

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https works out of the box with GNU classpath CVS

In order to debug/solve Debian bug #341818 I tried to run gcjappletviewer.jar with jamvm 1.4.2-1, classpath 2:0.20-2 and libjessie-java 1.0.1-2. Everything I tried failed. Then I updated my classpath packages to a current CVS snapshot and it worked out of … Continue reading

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Funny bug reports

Yes. It’s true. Even Eclipse hackers can be funny. Read more in this bug report.

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Eclipse 3.1.1-1 uploaded into Debian

Thanks to the help of many people we were able to upload new Eclipse packages into the Debian archive. As they include some new binary packages it went into the NEW queue. In the next days ftp-master will review and … Continue reading

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Eclipse 3.1-10 released

I uploaded a new version of Eclipse (3.1-10) to my repository. This now features a working internal help system and the packages are now built for amd64 too. The following source lines are for installing the Debian packages via apt-get: … Continue reading

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gcjwebplugin 0.3.2 is out

After a long time I got around to release a new version of gcjwebplugin with some important bug fixes to work with more applets. Among other things linkage of Glib, parsing of applet parameters and some segfaults got fixed. Packages … Continue reading

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