IcedTea 1.5 Adds PowerPC Java Port

Zied Fakhfakh fzied at dottn.com
Sun Jan 6 16:02:00 UTC 2008


Big applauses

On Jan 4, 2008 12:35 AM, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is a pretty good news and a solid improvement over OpenJDK.
>
> http://osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=19105
>
> "The IcedTea project added a PowerPC Java port (both 32 and 64 bit) of
> OpenJDK. IcedTea 1.5 now also tracks the mercurial repo, provides better
> GNU/Linux integration by using standard system libraries (libpng,
> libjpeg, zlib, giflib) and can be bootstrapped with the free
> gcj/ecj/classpath toolchain. OpenJDK just accepted a new porters group
> and Gary Benson wrote a guide to porting IcedTea that might be the start
> of a lot of other Java ports."
>
> Rahul
>
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