Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2827 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

"Dominique Leuenberger" <Dominique.Leuenberger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> > > > On 12/17/2008 at 10:52 AM, Marcus Meissner <meissner@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:46:33AM +0100, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
> > > Hi listmates!
> > >
> > > This year is a good year I would say:
> > > First, Adobe heard our prayers and offered us a 64bit plugin for Flash.
> > >
> > > And now: Sun offers us FINALLY also a 64bit plugin of Java! That's just 
> > crazy insane great news for the end of this year.
> > > https://jdk6.dev.java.net/6uNea.html 
> > >
> > > To very bad they were way to late again to have it in our just upcoming 
> > > 11.1 
> > release... pity.
> >
> > And it is not yet released, this link points to a beta of update 12.
>
> Correct, nevertheless it's absolutely this kind of news that has to be 
> mentioned. It shows that the companies no longer just ignore us.
> And what does 'beta' in really mean? It's a tag put on Software to state that 
> you offer less support on it, isn't it?

For some commercial software, we're not allowed to distribute Betas.
I'm not sure about Sun Java, I just want to point out that it might be
an issue.  If it's a final version, we could release it as online update
- but I'm not sure we want to release a Beta even if the legal side is ok,

Andreas
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