OpenJDK 6 Certification for Ubuntu 9.04 (jaunty)

[Andrew Haley]

In https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2009-July/000587.html
Matthias Klose wrote:

> The Ubuntu Java development team is pleased to announce completed
> certification of OpenJDK 6 for Ubuntu 9.04, continuing Ubuntu's tradition of
> integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a
> high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution.
>
> After signing the Sun TCK agreement earlier this year, Java developers
> went to work with the certification process and received final
> certification from Sun in late May.

And you didn't announce it till now.  Such amazing self-control.  :-)

> This certification means that the OpenJDK 6 package included with Ubuntu
> 9.04 now passes the rigorous testing of the Java SE Test Compatibility Kit
> (TCK) and is compatible with the Java(TM) SE 6 platform on the amd64 (x86_64)
> and i386 (ix86) architectures.

Congratulations, and welcome to the club!  I was beginning to wonder if Red Hat
and Fedora were going to be the only member for ever.

Andrew.