Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 02:36:45 +0100 From: Matthias Buelow <mkb@incubus.de> To: Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Java Runtime Environment (JRE)? Message-ID: <41F9972D.70003@incubus.de> In-Reply-To: <ef60af090501271620307cd2e7@mail.gmail.com> References: <20050127183134.GA88173@0lsen.net> <41F97701.6090409@incubus.de> <41F977C7.2030207@incubus.de> <ef60af090501271620307cd2e7@mail.gmail.com>
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Gert Cuykens wrote: > So is the linux emulation a bad thing or a good thing, i dont > understand very well what we need to do here to have java 1.5 in > firefox on my amd 64 ? sorry :) Linux emulation is both a good, and a bad thing. Good, because software that is available only for Linux (usually binary-only, closed-source) can be run on FreeBSD, and bad, because it removes an (albeit small) incentive to port applications to FreeBSD (or NetBSD, ...). I've never used java with firefox so I can't help you there. mkb.
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