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SuSE has JVM, too

Posted Mar 25, 2004 13:47 UTC (Thu) by zorgan (guest, #4016)
In reply to: Slackware has a JVM by remijnj
Parent article: GNOME Platform Stormclouds

and has always had it since quite a while ago. To me, the idea of a desktop
distribution without java support seems pretty strange. So many small OSS
application that a) want to have a GUI and b) want to be cross-platform decide to use
java.

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Commercial SuSE?

Posted Mar 25, 2004 14:24 UTC (Thu) by tomd (subscriber, #881) [Link]

Yeah, the article probably should've just said commercial distributions, and left "enterprise" out. I'm running SuSE 9.0 installed from FTP, and no IBM or Sun JVM here that I can see (and I snarfed the entire free 9.0 mirror). One of the first things I did post-install was download and install one. Would I be right in assuming that you bought a boxed set?

Commercial SuSE?

Posted Mar 27, 2004 12:54 UTC (Sat) by rise (guest, #5045) [Link]

Retail boxed SuSE versions have been indeed been shipping with both Sun and IBM Java JREs/SDKs. The FTP version could be missing the packages for a number of reasons, size being one non-license possiblity that springs to mind.