Java Solution
Craig White
craig at tobyhouse.com
Thu Jan 3 22:42:39 UTC 2008
On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 16:40 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>
> >>> 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.
>
> You are comparing 1.5 apples to 1.6 oranges. The 1.5 you tried was not
> Sun java, and jedit probably works just fine with Sun Java 1.5 as well
> as the 1.6 you installed.
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what was the point you were trying make using Karl as proof? LOL!!!
Craig
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