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>7. Java</H1
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>Java is downloadable and redistributable from Sun, but only for
personal and not-for-profit use. Sun's Java license is non-open-source,
so Fedora and most other Linux distributions won't carry it.</P
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>Fedora Core 5 includes an open-source Java implementation for
programmers called gcj. You only need to take special action if you want
to enable applets in your browser. The Unofficial Fedora FAQ has <A
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>You can test your Java plugin at Sun's <A
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> page. Note that
some of these applets (Escher and Starfield, when I checked) appear to be
broken. BouncingHeads makes a good test.</P
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>You might also want to copy the RPMS you built out of
<TT
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