Merging communities, so hard, and so much fun. We exchanged an “ambassador” and Mark Reinhold started an interplanetary exchange of species. Lets import some fresh blood on this little Planet Classpath of ours. Hi David, Hi Mark, Hi Joe, Hi Kelly, Hi Rich!
Been playing with the Fedora 9 Preview release on my laptop this weekend. It feels pretty snappy and the integration of the various new components is pretty smooth. I didn’t find any personal show stoppers. So I will definitely upgrade my main machine as soon as the final release is out (currently scheduled for May […]
Phil recently wrote up some examples of utilities created on top of the Frysk framework that you might find handy (part1, part2, part3). We now also have the frysk manual pages online.
It is that time of year again! All libre java projects and hackers come together to celebrate, plan, hack and discuss. There is a Free Java devroom and a list of people and activities. See you there!
With IcedTea installed, which includes gcjwebplugin, I was browsing a little and suddenly hit a streaming ogg/theora video that used the Cortado applet. And it just worked! Including sound support! So install the latest IcedTea and Try It Out!. A full GPLed streaming video and audio stack. How wonderful!
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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 […]