Re: [parisc-linux] Mozilla, etc.

[Grant Grundler <grundler@dsl2.external.hp.com>]

Andrew Shugg wrote:
> ....but I would hope that following this announcement HP will (somehow)
> be able to assist in getting a production-ready JRE into linux-hppa.

Just to set your expectation, inside HP I don't see any commercial
interest in parisc-linux at this time. I can make compute resources
(== faster machines) available for building/testing binaries. But
that's about the level of assistance I see happening from various
parts of HP.

> Once HPUX binary compatibility is working properly the HPUX JRE could
> probably be used as well, but if there's a comparable native solution I
> don't know if many people will go to that effort.

I was hoping (there's that word again) someone would do that.
All parisc machines were sold with a HPUX license. As the owner
of such a machine, you have the right to run the binaries
shipped with the machine. And it comes with lots of useful
binaries (jvm, compiler, X11 stuff, etc).

hth,
grant