> >>> Jake Hamby said:
   > 
   >  > 
   >  > I heard there was some fairly good progress being made on a Linux port.
   >  > Is this true?  Because if the Linux people have a working version, then a
   >  > FreeBSD/NetBSD version would be almost trivial from there.
   >  > 
   > 
   > Thats right people are still porting Java 8)

Is it possible to get a snapshot of that effort to get more familiar
with the problems. I tried starting from the Sun release but the mailfile
problems looked like a lot of work. I would hope that by now the Sun makefile
dependancies have been removed and the problems are more related to stuff like
the the thread libraries.


-pete