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There is a nice interview with Thomas Fitzsimmons about Fedora and IcedTea. LWN published my article about Piecing together free java.
Want some free java on your IPone? Robert Lougher posted some screenshots of JamVM and GNU Classpath running on it: Full war story on the JamVM forum.
November 13 2006 was Java Liberation Day. This brings back happy memories. On that day Sun acted and did not just make promises that one day they would release their java implementation as free software (something a lot of us GNU Classpath hackers didn’t believe would ever happen anymore – till that one day changed […]
Fedora 8 is finally golden. Download it now! IcedTea is included, but only for the x86 and x86_64 architectures. GCJ is of course included for all architectures. The gcjwebplugin integration seems to just work out of the box. Also if you haven’t played with virtualization yet and want to really know what the hype about […]
Red Hat and Sun Collaborate to Advance Open Source Java Technology “Red Hat fully supports Sun‘s courageous decision to open source Java technology. After more than 10 years of continuous leadership, the Java technology ecosystem will enter an era of accelerated innovation and benefit from extreme pervasiveness on a wide range of environments,” said Sacha […]
Thomas Zander, who got a cool job at Trolltech, pointed me at Eskil’s blog who shows some cool integration between Qt, AWT and Swing. I quickly tested QT/Jambi (all released under the GPL!) against IcedTea and it works pretty nicely. There seems to be some JNI issue when running it against GCJ though. Needs some […]
Ian Lance Taylor is working on a new ELF linker called gold which is designed for speed and will do incremental linking. He is writing notes on how linkers work (with specifics for ELF and i386) which are a must read for everybody interested in these kind of low level technicalities. Linkers part 1 – […]
If you are running Fedora Rawhide (the Fedora development branch) you can now do: yum install java-1.7.0-icedtea \ java-1.7.0-icedtea-devel \ java-1.7.0-icedtea-demo \ java-1.7.0-icedtea-plugin \ java-1.7.0-icedtea-src Just in time for Fedora 8 test 2! This is an experimental package based on OpenJDK b18 and IcedTea 1.3 and includes the browser plugin! Note: When using x86_64 the […]
For Frysk I am working to add .debug_frame support to libunwind. Since I didn’t know that much about stack unwinding and since some of the details are hard to grasp without some historical context I wrote the following to summarize all the relevant documentation pointers that I could find on stack unwinding. Please do let […]