In message <20000426233207.23351.qmail@hotmail.com>, "John Daniels" writes:
>Hi:
>

>An official Java JDK port to FreeBSD would likely mean that all BSD's would 
>benefit either by being able to use the FreeBSD port or by being much closer 
>to a port of their own.  In fact, many who have voted for the RFE have left 
>comments supporting a port to *BSD, not just FreeBSD.
>
>As you may know, Sun recently teamed with Inprise to create an official port 
>of Java to Linux (building on the work of Blackdown).  The *BSD's, with a 
>large and loyal base of developers, also deserve an official native version 
>of Java.
>
I'd love a BSD version of the JDK.  But isn't the Linux emulation on NetBSD 
good enough to let the Linux version run?


		--Steve Bellovin