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I'm curious as well about the potential exploitability of icedtea. I |
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would think that since the icedtea vm is not the same as the sun/oracle |
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one and so I don't think the code base is the same, which would mean an |
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exploit in the sun/oracle jvm would not necessarily affect icedtea. |
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However, I know very little on this matter and seeing as i think both |
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are open sourced i have no idea how much or if there is any code overlap. |
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-Kevin |
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On 01/15/2013 06:32 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: |
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> Looking for comments: |
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> A while back I removed java during an upgrade on my main desktop system |
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> and left icedtea6-bin in place without any noticeable effect. |
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> Presumably icedtea6 suffers the same java bug (cant find anything in |
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> their bugzilla though?) thats got everybody riled at the moment, though |
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> the last security bug on gentoo bugzilla is 2011. |
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> I am happy not using a mainstream java and avoiding the fuss that goes |
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> with dealing with oracles nonsense download restrictions but have two |
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> questions: |
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> 1. are there any "real" problems with using icedtea6? |
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> 2. icedtea6 and icedtea6-bin ... any difference in features? - I have |
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> had a much more stable experience with openoffice vs openoffice-bin so |
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> presume build yourself would be the same here? |
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> The questions may seem redundant seeing I am using both icedtea and java |
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> on various systems, but others experience may not be the same, or have |
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> more knowledge which would be useful before I move everything over. |
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> BillK |
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