2008/5/22 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
> >> --
> >> gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
> >>
> >
> > 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.
>

this one seems more promising:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-636218-highlight-openjdk.html



-- 
dott. ing. beso