Heads Up: JDK 7 Linux platforms moving to Fedora 9

[Dmitri Trembovetski]

Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Hi Kelly,
> 
> On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 14:21 -0800, Kelly O'Hair wrote:
>> The JDK7 early access binary snapshot builds are built from the
>> OpenJDK7 sources, plus additional files and repositories we either
>> cannot or haven't opened up yet (for various reasons).
> 
> Do you have a list of these additional files and repositories? Is there
> anything for which there still isn't a free replacement available?

   For some of these free replacements are available in the openjdk
   tree, but they aren't yet of satisfactory quality (like the
   antialiasing rasterizer), so Sun's proprietary builds won't
   be switching to those components for a while.

   Thanks,
     Dmitri