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Tuesday May 16, 2006 Java: Hot and Spicy for GNU/Linux
Today is such a huge day... It's the culmination of months of work on relicensing Java for Linux and OpenSolaris distributions.
I've been quiet for a long time as this has literally consumed every waking moment for the past several weeks. I look foward to blogging soon about my keen interest on the intersection of Law and Technology.
In the meantime allow me to quickly thank Jeroen van Wolffelaar (Debian), Barry Hawkins (Debian), Matthias Klose (Ubuntu), Jürgen Kreileder (Blackdown), and David Herron (Sun) for an awesome and intense feat of community collaboration... Culminating the the release of Java packages for Debian GNU/Linux and Ubuntu at
DebConf 6: Hot and Spicy....
![[DebConf 6]](http://media.debconf.org/dc6/images/head_top.png)
Thanks also, of course, to Simon Phipps for tremendous
leadership in moving Sun towards genuine Free/Libre
future.
Even from my hotel window today the Debian Swirl is superimposed
on this beautiful city of San Francisco:
![[San Francisco Swirl]](http://mediacast.sun.com/share/tmarble/sf-swirl.jpg)
I'm headed over to the unBOF now... Hope to see you there!
--Tom
![[Come in, we're OPEN]](https://photos.sun.com/thumbnail/400/400/6237)
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Thank you Sun! This is a greatly welcomed move. It will help get Java everywhere.
Mono .Net applications have been making inroads within the Gnome community (Beagle, F-Spot, and Tomboy). Having Sun's high-quality JVM implemenation included on all Gnome-based distributions could lead to viable market for Java based apps on the desktop.
I understand you needing to keep this quiet leading up to the Java One annoucement, but I hope you will now reach out to the JPackage community. They have been leaders in developing policies for sanely packaging java apps for a LSB environment. I'm at least glad that Sun is adopting several JPackage guidelines, as your FAQ indicates.
Allen Halsey
Posted by Allen Halsey on May 17, 2006 at 10:28 PM CDT #