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From: Mats Lofkvist <mal@bengt.algonet.se>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: BSD vs Linux
Date: 01 Jun 1997 14:18:02 +0200
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stephen farrell <stephen+usenet@farrell.org> writes:
> How about jdk1.1? Linux is making significant headway with this at
> javasoft. In fact, alan barantz is even considering granting linux
> "licenscee" standing, with all of the benefits to the linux/java
> porting community that entails. I find it unlikely that FreeBSD java
> porting effort is as successful as of yet, but I wonder if the FBSD
> linux emulation is up to snuff to run linux's jdk1.1? (I recall it
> could *not* run jdk1.02 last summer).
Text only applications work for me, but I have not been able to make
graphics programs run (*). I'm running FreeBSD 2.2.1 and jdk-1.1.1-linux-v2,
the linux compat libs package is upgraded to linux_lib-2.4.
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Mats Lofkvist
mal@algonet.se
(*) The X window won't show up at all and the application seems to be idle
waiting for input. A few times when running ktrace on java, the window
_did_ show up, some weird timing and/or signal problem here??