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From: Beso <givemesugarr@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Java puzzles on AMD64
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 16:47:00
Message-Id: d257c3560805220946w7f58ca8ft5f6001d3c384ec43@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Java puzzles on AMD64 by Mark Knecht
1 2008/5/22 Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>:
2
3 > On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 6:05 AM, Beso <givemesugarr@×××××.com> wrote:
4 > >
5 > >
6 > > 2008/5/22 Sven Köhler <skoehler@×××.de>:
7 > >>>
8 > >>> konqueror and nautilus should be able to read the 64bit sun-jdk or
9 > >>> sun-jre natively. for flash to work gnash or try out nsplugin-wrapper
10 > with
11 > >>> the official adobe flash player.
12 > >>
13 > >> There's still not 64-Bit Java Plug-in, i think.
14 > >> So if konqueror or nautilus don't have there own plugin implementation
15 > (i
16 > >> don't think so) then it won't run either.
17 > >>
18 > >
19 > > i've heard that the openjdk project (the opensource java, based on the
20 > > source code realeased by sun) has created a 64bit plugin named iced tea
21 > that
22 > > is able to run almost any java applet around. i've still got to test it
23 > > myselft but it should work. the only problem is that you'll have to find
24 > an
25 > > overlay that has the openjdk and icedtea packages since it is still not
26 > > included into main portage tree.
27 > >
28 > > --
29 > > dott. ing. beso
30 >
31 > Thanks for the clues. Off to investigate.
32 >
33 > Cheers,
34 > Mark
35 > --
36 > gentoo-amd64@l.g.o mailing list
37 >
38 >
39 please let me know on how it goes. i'll do the same as soon as i finish my
40 fresh 2008.0 reinstall (i had some big incongruences in my system and
41 decided to go with fresh install).
42
43
44 --
45 dott. ing. beso

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