Hi, Please forgive me I sound a little irritable. I have Fedora Core 4 for x86_64 installed on a new HP nx6125 laptop (Turion ML-40). I am beginning to regret buying a 64-bit machine, since so many things seem unsupported. My wireless card required searching another manufacturer's website for a Windows driver to run under ndiswrapper, there seems to be NO 64-bit flash plugin, and NO java plugin for firefox (1.0.7) - certainly not from Sun!
So, I came to blackdown and picked up the j2sdk-1.4.2-03 package for amd64. I must congratulate you for at least trying to support java linux users. I ran the self-unpacking binary, found the libjavaplugin_oji.so, and made a soft link in the /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.7/plugins directory. However, it crashes on many applets. For example, I can go to java.com, but attempting to enter "Duke's Zone" kills firefox. Under games/classic, AstroCrusher works, but Boulder Dash kills firefox, ... etc. Now, normally, when I have troubles like this, I don't whine or whinge. I get stuck in, recompile the source code with -g, and track down the problem. But - no compilable source code for the jvm or plugin. I think Sun is going to miss out badly here. Java will wither and lose out to Microsoft's .NET, because at least that has a working third-party VM (Mono). Java may be a single platform to write to, but it must run on diverse platforms. I really don't understand why Sun rejects the help of thousands of developers, like me, who would work - for nothing - to make sure Java runs on these platforms. "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow". I don't really think Sun gets open source at all. OK, rant over. In the meantime, how can I debug these crashes without source? Peter Wainwright ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
