L
linux user
Hi:
1)
I have downloaded the Java run time engine
j2re-1_4_2_01-linux-i586.bin
and the one with rpm.
Neither work: I get a file corrupted message.
I have repeated the operation several times, using my usua,l browsers
(konqueror and firebird) which usually work with almost anything.
Still same result.
Any idea there.
Did you have a better experience there?
2)
Dowload problems:
Indeed using wget is made impossible by SUN. Too bad.
It is the third time that I have to install the JRE on a system, the
previous was a PC with windows 2000.
In each case it is a major pain!
3)
A solution would be for the major Linux distributions vendors
Mandrake, Suse, RedHat etc... to integrate the Java VM, and also SDK
in their distribution.
It seems that there are copyright issues there which make it
impractical.
You comments here?
And SUN is now suing MS...
In my view, JAVA to be successful should be moved out of the control
of SUN, and possibly to the FSF, so all is fixed.
Also it would be good for the FSF to supprt actively Java, and I bet
than within one year it would scream. Else...
As interested that I am in java applications and java programming, now
I tend to believe that SUN should stop controlling JAVA and rather
generater revenues based on its Java expertise, development,
trainings, services....
I am also wondering if SUN would not poorly support Linux based JRE,
it would absurd, but ....
uselinux2000
ps: I also tried to install Java on MAndrake 9.1: just as bad.
1)
I have downloaded the Java run time engine
j2re-1_4_2_01-linux-i586.bin
and the one with rpm.
Neither work: I get a file corrupted message.
I have repeated the operation several times, using my usua,l browsers
(konqueror and firebird) which usually work with almost anything.
Still same result.
Any idea there.
Did you have a better experience there?
2)
Dowload problems:
Indeed using wget is made impossible by SUN. Too bad.
It is the third time that I have to install the JRE on a system, the
previous was a PC with windows 2000.
In each case it is a major pain!
3)
A solution would be for the major Linux distributions vendors
Mandrake, Suse, RedHat etc... to integrate the Java VM, and also SDK
in their distribution.
It seems that there are copyright issues there which make it
impractical.
You comments here?
And SUN is now suing MS...
In my view, JAVA to be successful should be moved out of the control
of SUN, and possibly to the FSF, so all is fixed.
Also it would be good for the FSF to supprt actively Java, and I bet
than within one year it would scream. Else...
As interested that I am in java applications and java programming, now
I tend to believe that SUN should stop controlling JAVA and rather
generater revenues based on its Java expertise, development,
trainings, services....
I am also wondering if SUN would not poorly support Linux based JRE,
it would absurd, but ....
uselinux2000
ps: I also tried to install Java on MAndrake 9.1: just as bad.