Study capabilities, not intent [LWN.net]

Study capabilities, not intent

Posted May 18, 2006 0:45 UTC (Thu) by emkey (guest, #144)
In reply to: Study capabilities, not intent by piman
Parent article: Java becomes more distributable

Exactly, rock meet hard place.

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Study capabilities, not intent

Posted May 18, 2006 1:02 UTC (Thu) by cventers (subscriber, #31465) [Link]

While I don't think Java is anything close to irrelevant in the market,
there is a lot more to Linux than Java. I think that if anything like that
ever did happen, a patch author who wanted to change the system call
semantics would have to prove he could do so without side effects.

The distributions would always have options in a crunch - hell, you could
even do something crazy and temporarily hack the kernel to behave as Sun
defines compatibility, and even just for the Java process itself.

So maybe the distributions carry their own aftermarket Java patches until
they can migrate.

Study capabilities, not intent

Posted May 18, 2006 1:37 UTC (Thu) by miah (subscriber, #639) [Link]

RedHat has already been shipping Java, I'm not sure for how long, but I can easily install it on my RHEL systems by adding the proper channel. But guess what, its not Sun Java, its IBM, the IBM JDK, Bea WebLogic and other Java tools are already there. I'd be suprised if Redhat decided to go with Sun Java in RHEL 5.

A quick google turns up the following Press Release: http://www.redhat.com/about/presscenter/2004/press_apps_s...