[SECURITY] IcedTea 2.1.8 for OpenJDK 7 Released!

Adam Domurad adomurad at redhat.com
Thu May 2 10:39:56 PDT 2013


On 05/02/2013 01:02 PM, Jacob Wisor wrote:
> "Andrew John Hughes"<gnu_andrew at member.fsf.org> wrote:
> [...]
>> In addition, IcedTea includes the usual IcedTea patches to allow
>> builds against system libraries and to support more estoric
>> architectures.
> You probably mean "exotic architectures"... How could an architecture be esoteric??? :D Well, maybe those with positive vibrations?
>
> [...]
>   
> Have a nice day!
> Jacob

It's a colourful term, but it makes sense to me. Eg, knowing how to 
support exotic architectures would require knowledge that could be 
described as esoteric, so they can themselves be described as esoteric.

Cheers,
-Adam



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