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Subject: Re: Java Development Kit
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Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 12:37:29 +0200
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Robert Bebee <rbebee@iquest.net> writes:

> I've been practicing with a zipslack installation, and I'm considering 
> going for a purer Linux.  I'd like to work with Java.  I installed a 
> JDK (Java Development Kit) on my zipslack-- it installed okay, but I 
> couldn't do anything with it.

What did you want to do?  All command-line / text-output
based java apps should work (there are practically none...).
And GUI java stuff does *NOT* work under Linux,
because there is still no working Java-enabled screen reader.
IBM wrote the SVK, but they only supported Windows and Solaris.


-- 
CYa,
  Mario