Open JDK in Debian's Lenny -- Distro Grandslam!
Not long after I began my journey home from Debconf last week, OpenJDK officially made it into Lenny. Lenny is Debian's next release and is due out late next month (fingers and toes crossed).
Pitching OpenJDK to the Debian powers-that-be: Doko (lower left) explains the finer details of OpenJDK to Mark Hymers at Debconf while, Neil, Phil and Joerg look on.
Can't Swing a Dead Cat without hitting a Distro with OpenJDK Included
With inclusion in Lenny, OpenJDK is now in all of the top four FOSS GNU/ Linux distros and available for two more:
OpenJDK included in Available forThank Yous All Around
A big Mahalo to everyone working on Fedora, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE and Debian who made this possible with specific shout-outs to:
- Tom Marble
- Team Iced Tea
- Doko
- Rich Sands
- Dalibor
- Joe Darcy and the rest of the Sun OpenJDK team
And Mandriva now, too, in Cooker since Aug 11th!
Posted by Dalibor Topic on August 20, 2008 at 03:23 AM CDT #
Is this trickling down into downstreams other than Ubuntu?
Posted by Simon Phipps on August 20, 2008 at 02:26 PM CDT #
I'd expect it start trickling down once Lenny releases in September.
Posted by Dalibor Topic on August 21, 2008 at 12:39 PM CDT #