Slackware has a JVM [LWN.net]

Slackware has a JVM

Posted Mar 25, 2004 15:56 UTC (Thu) by busterb (subscriber, #560)
In reply to: Slackware has a JVM by tomd
Parent article: GNOME Platform Stormclouds

Slackware carries a pre-packaged version of Sun Java on its mirrors, and has done so for several years. This comes from the Changelog for Slackware 8.0:

Mon Apr 2 15:30:09 PDT 2001
contrib/java/: Added Java(TM) 2 SDK, Standard Edition,
Version 1.3.0_02. Thanks to Sun Microsystems for
allowing us to include this with Slackware.

Prior to that, Slackware distributed the Blackdown JDK. I'm not sure what Patrick Volkerding did to get distribution rights, but there apparently has not been any issue getting the Sun version of Java included in the freely-downloadble version and even repackaged as a Slackware tarball.

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Slackware has a JVM

Posted Mar 25, 2004 17:31 UTC (Thu) by remijnj (guest, #5838) [Link]

Yes, i see now. Thank god for Slackware and Patrick Volkerding, a bit of sanity in the world of linux distros.

Just to clarify though, the jvm is now in the normal install (not confined to contrib anymore). It resides in the "d" (development) set.