Our team at Red Hat has been doing some planning now that OpenJDK has been released. First, a summary of OpenJDK’s status:
What Sun has released:
most of the 1.6-level JDK, including:
the Hotspot virtual machine with x86 and x86_64 JITs
the Java compiler
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I packaged the new code drop from the OpenJDK project using the JPackage conventions. Because naming rules are still being worked out for derivatives of OpenJDK code, I’ve decided to call the result “java-1.7.0-icedtea”. This is just a preliminary development package; I hope Sun will approve renaming it “java-1.7.0-openjdk” or “java-1.6.0-openjdk” when it […]