Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Java puzzles on AMD64

["Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Beso <givemesugarr@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/5/22 Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>:
>>
>> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 6:05 AM, Beso <givemesugarr@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > 2008/5/22 Sven Köhler <skoehler@upb.de>:
>> >>>
>> >>> konqueror and nautilus should be able to read the 64bit sun-jdk or
>> >>> sun-jre natively. for flash to work gnash or try out nsplugin-wrapper
>> >>> with
>> >>> the official adobe flash player.
>> >>
>> >> There's still not 64-Bit Java Plug-in, i think.
>> >> So if konqueror or nautilus don't have there own plugin implementation
>> >> (i
>> >> don't think so) then it won't run either.
>> >>
>> >
>> > i've heard that the openjdk project (the opensource java, based on the
>> > source code realeased by sun) has created a 64bit plugin named iced tea
>> > that
>> > is able to run almost any java applet around. i've still got to test it
>> > myselft but it should work. the only problem is that you'll have to find
>> > an
>> > overlay that has the openjdk and icedtea packages since it is still not
>> > included into main portage tree.
>> >
>> > --
>> > dott. ing. beso
>>
>> Thanks for the clues. Off to investigate.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mark
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>>
>
> please let me know on how it goes. i'll do the same as soon as i finish my
> fresh 2008.0 reinstall (i had some big incongruences in my system and
> decided to go with fresh install).
>

Beso,
   Will do. Only thing of any use I've found so far is this promising link:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-615533.html

I plan to try it this afternoon after the markets close. Currently I'm
in windows trying to make some money.

Cheers,
Mark
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