From owner-freebsd-java Wed Nov 17 10:17:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (ns.mt.sri.com [206.127.79.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61DAB14F8B for ; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 10:17:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA17926; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 11:17:50 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id LAA09030; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 11:17:49 -0700 Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 11:17:49 -0700 Message-Id: <199911171817.LAA09030@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Joe Yandle Cc: chris@tourneyland.com, java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Slashdot posting (was Re: Status of JDK for FreeBSD?) In-Reply-To: References: <19991117174336.3896.rocketmail@web902.mail.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ok, Here's what I posted to slashdot. It's weak, but it's the best I could do on short notice. :) Nate ps. I don't like my title given that I don't consider myself the head of the team, but I guess it lends more credibility to the posting. :( ------------- As head of the current FreeBSD/JDK porting development team (http://www.freebsd.org/java), it's been difficult to finish our JDK2 efforts due to lack of help from Sun. In order to try and make JDK2 on FreeBSD a reality, we are lobbying Sun using a RFE (Request For Enhancement) on the Java Developer network to demonstrate to them the number of people interested in seeing FreeBSD as a supported Java platform.

Please click on the following URL, and add your votes to compel Sun into allocating resources towards getting a native FreeBSD port of JDK2 (and JDK3, etc...) finished.

http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4288745.html 

(Note, voting requires that you be registed on the Java Developer
Connection, which is free.)

This is good for open-source operating systems, and Java in general since FreeBSD is a great server platform used by many of the major internet portal sites (Yahoo, Hotmail), and would allow FreeBSD to compete as a Java server platform directly with less 'open' systems such as WinNT.

Thanks!

Nate Williams - Head of FreeBSD/Java development project. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message