Mark Reinhold recently pointed out that he, Joe Darcy and Brian Goetz had submitted their OpenJDK work on features for JDK7 and JDK8 to the JCP for standardization. Normally I am somewhat sceptical about the JCP. I don’t believe the JCP fosters a truly open process and discourages Free Software implementations. But Mark, Joe and Brian seem to be proving me wrong.
LIU Qi from Longsoon wrote up some OpenJDK MIPS port related information on the IcedTea wiki: http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/MIPSPort. Go check it out if you own some MIPS hardware and want to help out.
Join us at FOSDEM 2011 to be a part of our sessions where we’ll discuss the state of Free Java! Our theme is “Java Sans Frontières” Why Free Java technology is awesome Standing on the Shoulders of Free Java The future of Free Java The Call For Participation is OPEN NOW, but closes on 3rd […]
Doug Lea posted why he is not seeking another term on the JCP Executive Committee: I believe that the JCP is no longer a credible specification and standards body, and there is no remaining useful role for an independent advocate for the academic and research community on the EC. Some have argued that JCP was […]
The GDB Python integration is really awesome. But whenever I want to point people at it I never know what a good overview is to link them to. So I created a little PythonGdbTutorial page on the GDB wiki that has just a one sentence summary and links to all the articles Tom Tromey wrote […]
Seems Oracle bought Sun to become a java patent troll. Trying to destroy the alternative free java implementation that is part of android. Sun used to be agnostic towards Free Software in the past, then became a huge fan on java liberation day. Now that Oracle is in control and starts its quest to destroy […]
WordPress 3.0 integrated Multisite support! I only maintain two blogs, but it was already handy to put them under the same “Super Admin” install. WordPress really is pretty smooth these days and highly customizable.
I’ll be at the GNU Hackers Meeting this weekend and at GUADEC next week.
Matthias Klose released IcedTea6 1.8. He still doesn’t have a blog (or is that old fashioned already in these web 3.0 micro-message-blogging days). So here is the release announcement he made: IcedTea6-1.8 release We are proud to announce the release of IcedTea6 1.8. The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from […]
Jonas got a little sister, Roos