Nice prominent advertisement for installing OpenJDK 6 in Ubuntu on the OpenJDK website.
Where is the one for Fedora?
Anyone have a contact at OpenJDK? Seems like we could give them the equivalent set of installation instructions for the page, “How to download and install prebuilt OpenJDK packages.”
I’d really appreciate that being updated somehow, especially in advance of next week when I plan to beat the OpenJDK drum at Sun’s Community One developer event.
Hi Karsten,
We have plenty of contacts at Sun. Talk to Andrew Haley or Tom Fitzsimmons or Mark Wielaard, etc.
HTH,
Andrew
It’s also worth noting that OpenJDK is also now available in the EPEL 5 testing repository, so RHEL/CentOS using folks can easily install it from there. 😉
Could you send the exact instructions, the logo to use (and preferably in html as patch against that webpage) to web-discuss@openjdk.java.net
And maybe you also know the magic incantation to get it for users of EPEL (who has a fedora build of openjdk6 available too).
Karsten, I have contacts at Sun who have been begging us for this for some time now. If you can whip this document up, I can pass it along (or I can just give you the contact info of someone at Sun).
We already plan to post similar installation instructions, as well as highlight the Fedora logo on the main page, when Fedora 9 ships.
Thanks for the follow-up, folks. I’ll do these:
* Talk with those who know and get a set of instructions for installing OpenJDK under Fedora 9.
* Make a version for EPEL 5, noting that it is a testing repo.
* Make a patch for the appropriate opendjk.java.net pages.
Regarding the idea of waiting for shipping software versions v. releasing early. I know there are different thought camps here, but with OpenJDK’s large developer audience, won’t they like access to the latest and greatest? There have been live CD/DVD/Flash thumb drive versions of Fedora with OpenJDK 6 available for more than a month. Live images are a great way to test tools. The preview release of Fedora 9 available right now is 99% of what is going to be in Fedora 9. Similar with the package in EPEL testing, do we have to wait for it to leave testing to post installation instructions?
Not having this information means more people are not enjoying the benefits of the open source process.
Note that openjdk was already available with Fedora 8, the package in Fedora 9 is just improved and now comes with powerpc support, webstart, better imaging, better compliance with the 1.6 api (fedora 8 had the newer, but unstable 1.7 api). It was just not allowed to be called that way, so the packages are called icedtea [*]. The new Fedora 9 packages are called openjdk, but they come from the same source. So you can certainly also give instructions for Fedora 8 it you feel it needs to be only for the stable release.
[*] See the new trademark license at http://openjdk.java.net/legal/openjdk-trademark-notice.html that allows icedtea to be branded openjdk now.
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