On Tue, February 15, 2005 10:30 pm, Rodd Clarkson said:
I'm a little confused about all this so please be gentle.
I'm looking for a JRE to use as a plugin for Firefox. In the past I
would have just hooked into the jre pluggin supplied with Sun's Java,
but since I'm testing the current fedora 4 development and it seems that
FC4 intends to do without the need for Sun's Java (I could be wrong)
could someone tell me what package I'm supposed to install to get a JRE
for firefox (and any other steps I might need to perform).
Hi Rodd,
You'll still need to install a Java Runtime for Firefox, and the process
is the same as usual. The GNU compiler has improved to a point where
many java programs can be compiled and run without needing a proprietary
runtime, and that is likely the chatter you've been hearing. However,
it's not yet a general replacement for the proprietary JRE's.
Cheers,
Sean