InfoQ had a nice article about the various GNU Classpath/OpenJDK hybrids, mentioning the work by the various teams (icedtea, ikvm, cacao, etc) doing the integration with as conclusion: It is encouraging that the code sharing is already going both ways. Free Software projects are not just incorporating the newly freed code, they are also helping […]
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Linus Torvalds had an interesting comment on moving the linux kernel to GPLv3: If Sun really _is_ going to release OpenSolaris under GPLv3, that _may_ be a good reason. I don’t think the GPLv3 is as good a license as v2, but on the other hand, I’m pragmatic, and if we can avoid having two […]
I have to admit I hadn’t expected a fully free boostrappable OpenJDK already, but there it is! IcedTea patches OpenJDK so that it doesn’t need any binary blobs anymore, replacing the blobs with GNU Classpath code, compiles it all using gcj and (optionally) bootstraps itself using the just build hotspot and javac. Impressive! No full […]
The CACAO Team did it again! CACAO 0.98 “Free all JITs!” released. This is a major feature enhancement and bug-fix release. Here is a short list of the most important changes: ARM and MIPS32 code generators are now open-source. PowerPC64 code generator was added. Sun’s phoneme CLDC-1.1 classes can now be used as Java core […]
Fun stuff to play with this weekend: Fedora 7 Fully free 1.5 java programming language stack: $ gcj –version gcj (GCC) 4.1.1 20070105 (Red Hat 4.1.1-51) Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A […]
Somehow I had missed JaLiMo (shame on me, it is sponsored by Tarent and Robert Schuster is also working on it) which provides free java stacks for maemo and openmoko, based on Cacao, JamVM, GNU Classpath, java-gnome and MIDPath. They will give a talk at LinuxTag titled Java-Linux-Mobile Platform. Wish I could go. Or better, […]
Eben Moglen spoke at the Red Hat Summit last week. Imagine a party who engages in recurrent threats every summer time for years on end. On a sort of annual Be Very Afraid tour. I know it sounds absurd. Imagine now that what happens is that the annual Be Very Afraid tour starts creating terrible […]
That was one fun week! It was so great to meet Dalibor Topic, Casey Marshall, David Daney, Tom Tromey and Tom Fitzsimmons who feel like old friends even though we really only meet and work together virtually. OpenJDK is now in full swing and Sun put up a great show at JavaOne. We were all […]
I am at JavaOne now where the OpenJDK source drop was announced and Dalibor got onto the governance board. It is a madhouse here. Lots of fun. Congrats to all the Sun people for making all this happen. Hope we will be able to clear the last encumberments really quick.