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Re: AMD64 show stoppers



On 01/17/07 01:47:00PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 09:41:38PM -0500, Jim Crilly wrote:
> > On 01/16/07 07:42:29PM -0600, Karl Schmidt wrote:
> > > Add your show stopper to this thread...
> > > 
> > > First on the list is the java browser pluging - the black down java 
> > > sort-of-works(tm) (not a Debian package)
> > 
> > Since Sun's GPL'ing Java that'll probably be taken care of in the future,
> > but the chances of it making it into Etch are slim. But frankly I don't see
> > the problem.
> 
> Majour problem with so much java being used in web sites, I find it really
> annoying - the solutions I use is the blackdown - there is a apt repository and
> the gcj plugin - still early days
> > 

I can't remember the last site I saw that required Java. Actually I can,
but it was an internal site at the last company I worked for and it didn't
work in anything but IE anyway.

Jim.



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