Java Solution

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Thu Jan 3 22:19:57 UTC 2008


Scott van Looy wrote:
> Today Karl Larsen did spake thusly:
>
>> 2. Next the small wimpy java 1.51 which is of no use to a serious 
>> java user should not be made available to the user.Instead there 
>> should be dummy /usr/java/default/bin/java file which will print out 
>> "Java not installed" if you press java in a Terminal. There needs to 
>> be a link between /etc/alternatives/java to /usr/java/default/bin/java.
>
> Most "Serious java users" ie corporations are using either 1.4 (as we 
> are at work) or 1.5, so stop speaking of something you know nothing 
> about. Hardly anyone is using 1.6 commercially yet. And they're the 
> people who are "serious users", not people trying to run applets in 
> their browsers...
>
    Why lie about what I KNOW? I tried to install jedit with the 1.5 on 
F8 and it just spit out error messages. Then I bit the bullet and 
installed what Sun Inc said is right and jedit works SUPER.

That is fact not you GUESS.


Karl


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