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• To: debian-java@lists.debian.org
• Subject: Re: Installing a Java VM on Debian
• From: Ben Burton <bab@debian.org>
• Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2003 23:50:30 +1000
• Message-id: <[🔎] 20031005235030.A20924@digican.ms.unimelb.edu.au>
• In-reply-to: <[🔎] 1129688481.20031005143206@katzien.de>; from jan@katzien.de on Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 02:32:06PM +0200
• References: <[🔎] 000701c38b31$ce643d40$7f01a8c0@NUKLEUZ> <[🔎] 1129688481.20031005143206@katzien.de>

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FWIW:

> Blackdown is a enchanced linux port of the sun VM. But the last
> debian packages are a little bit outdated ...

and broken - they're still using gcc2 builds, which can (in my experience)
cause apps using C++ native libraries to crash randomly and frequently.

If you're planning on using the blackdown JVM, I'd recommend not using
the .debs on the blackdown site but rather downloading the JVM directly.

Ben. :)

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