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Last Update: Sat Sep 30 07:26:04 2006

+ This page will be revamped very soon + Many things will change for the Linux community during and after JavaOne, and this page will be completely revamped to account for ...

+ Java One mini-talks for Linux users + The Java.Net Community Corner in the Java One Pavillion will feature a few talks of special interest for Linux developers, ranging ...

+ Eclipse On Linux Working Group + Novell, Red Hat and others are proposing a new Eclipse project focused on a better user experience for Eclipse on Linux, with a focus ...

+ A Look at GCJ 4.1 (by Mark Wielaard) + Version 4.0 of GCJ introduced a new deployment model that made is much easier for distributors to package traditional Java programs as [...] the core library. This change means that those parts of the core library can easily be upgraded with newer versions by the end user.

+ Kaffe 10th aniversary! + "In Feb 6 1996, Tim Wilkinson released the first version of Kaffe as version 0.1, which is the first independent free and open source ...

+ Free Java Opens Doors To .NET World + It's ready folks. Make sure your library works with it. (by Weiqi ...

+ When Applets are not WORA + During the end of 2005 I had a customer who could not run a Java Applet on his desktops, despite having the latest update from Sun. ...

+ Stallman leads the GPL off a cliff (ZDNet) + When a blogger trashed the anti-DRM features of the GPL3 draft, common sense from the community was quick to show how biased the ...

+ micro-libgcj: A lightweight alternative to Java. + From the projet home page: "micro-libgcj is a lightweight version of the GCJ project’s runtime library (libgcj), intended to [...] GCC is an ideal tool for this purpose, since it is widely ported, and its Java and C++ compilers produce ABI-compatible object code

+ If you use Linux, you should use JPackage + Life of Linux System and Network Administrators and Developers would be easier if all Java software vendors started to use JPackage ...

+ JFreeChart now runs with F/OSS Java VMs + Has JFreeChart escaped the Java Trap? Yes!!! At least partially, if the chart image below is anything to go by. It has been created [...] bindings provided by the Java-Gnome project), JFreeChart and a custom class CairoGraphics2D.java - no proprietary software required!

+ Escaping the Java Trap: A practical road map to the Free Software and Open Source alternatives + This document, created colaboratively by many open source Java developers from meetings initiated by SouJava and edited by Mark [...] and certification initiatives. It's a great place to start learning about the effort to have compatible F/OSS Java implementations.

+ JamVM 1.4.0 + From Mark Wielaard: Robert never pushes JamVM very hard. But he really should! His latest JamVM 1.4.0 release adds impressive new [...] GNU Classpath 0.19 and CVS support plus improved/added support for PPC-32/64, AMD64 and kfreebsd) and feels really stable. Go Robert!

+ Moving to Linux + During a recent debate about Java, Linux and OSS I have observed that some old fears are still alive and are still avoiding a [...] in such discussion, there is an open question to be answered: Why the Java developers doesn't use Linux as development platform ? .

+ ZDNet UK: UK Financial Organisations Offer Firefox Support + 'We recognise that more and more people are using Firefox, so it's something we want to support,' says one high-street ...

+ MadPenguin: Ubuntu On The Business Desktop + I managed to work for a month and a half before the Boss noticed I was using Linux --and that was only because he happened to glance ...

+ The What, Why and When of Free Software in India + Talking with one of the organizers of FSF-India about the role of free software as both technology and ...

+ ZDNet: Approach and Appearance in Relation to Open Source + Marten Mickos, CEO of open source database company MySQL AB, was motivated by the recent controversy over SAP executive Shai Agassi's ...

+ Linux Journal: Saving the Net: How to Keep the Carriers from Flushing the Net Down the Tubes + We're hearing tales of two scenarios--one pessimistic, one optimistic--for the future of the Net. If the paranoids are right, the ...

+ eWeek: New Linux Study Suggests Fundamental Microsoft Creditability Problems + Another day, another lame attempt by Microsoft to show that Windows is better than ...

+ An interview with Brian Koontz, creator of the Open Source Technology program at North Lake College + Open Source for college credit? Yes, it's true! Daniel interviews Brian Koontz, Computer Science program coordinator and OSS [...] at North Lake College in Texas. Daniel Brookshier interviews Brian about the certificate and the open source impact of open source.

+ SearchOpenSource: Open Source Developers Bag Bugs Faster, Survey Says + Open source software (OSS) developers find and fix software bugs quickly, according to new analyst research released this ...

+ ZDNet UK: Why Governments Really Choose Open Source + Discovering why some public sector organisations are so enthusiastic about community developed software often means looking beyond a ...

+ Sun Announces Support for Postgres Database on Solaris 10 + Sun Announces Support for Postgres Database on Solaris ...

+ SearchOpenSource: Samba's Terpstra Shoots Down Open Source Misinformation + "In this interview, Terpstra shoots down some pernicious misunderstandings about Linux and open source and explains how IT ...