ANNOUNCING:

      JDK 1.1.8 FCS, JDK 1.2.2 FCS, and JDK 1.3.0 Beta 2
      For PPC Linux distributions


Blackdown Organization is pleased to announce the availability
of JDK 1.1.8, JDK 1.2.2 and JDK 1.3.0 Beta 2 for current PPC Linux
distributions.



Notes and Requirements
----------------------
- should work with any *current* distribution:
     YDL 1.2, LinuxPPC 2000, SuSE 6.4, Debian, etc

- lots of bug fixes from both Sun and Blackdown

- still no JIT for JDK 1.2.2 or JDK 1.3.0 (we need your help!)

- requires glibc 2.1.3 or higher (do *not* use glibc-2.1.3-15c.ppc.rpm set)

- requires XFree 3.6 or higher or Xpmac rev10 or higher

- requires a recent version of tar that supports bzip2 

- requires dynamic OpenMotif 2.1.30-3 (with an additional JDK bugfix patch)

- all testing done on highly modified YellowDog 1.2 / LinuxPPC system
  so success reports from other distributions welcomed




Future Release Plans
--------------------
Blackdown hopes to soon (RSN) make releases of the following:

- JDK 1.3 Plugin for Mozilla (add java capabilities to Mozilla)

- Java 3D for ppc

- JMF for ppc

- Metrowerks JIT for JDK 1.2.X and JDK 1.3.X

We (both Sun and Blackdown) have asked (begged!) Apple to release 
their HotSpot source to Blackdown (both are Sun licensees so that licenses
allow this).  Unfortuantely Apple has not yet responded to our cries
of "HELP!"

If you know anyone at Apple who might help bring this to a 
successful conclusion, please ping them and ask them to help.



Installation
------------

Installing Motif 2.1 
--------------------
The JDK's are no longer *staticly* linked to Motif 2.1.  

To make the JDK work properly with OpenMotif, a recent Motif bug 
fix needed by the JDK is required.  This patch has *not* yet been 
incorporated into OpenMotif by MetroLink or anyone else.

To get correct awt performance, please install the modified OpenMotif
binaries available from this site.  If you want to build your own
version, please grab the MetroLink OpenMotif source archive and the 
motif_jdk_grab.patch also available from this site:

To install OpenMotif with JDK bug fix:

cd /usr/X11R6/
tar -zxf openmotif-2.1.30-3_MLI_jdk.tar.gz
/sbin/ldconfig -v



JDK Installation
----------------

The JDK is distributed as a bzip2 compressed tar archive.  It can be
installed virtually anywhere.  The current instructions are for a 
/usr/local installation.  Feel free to substitute.

JDK 1.3 Beta
------------
cd /usr/local
tar -Ixf j2sdk-1.3.0beta-b02-linux.ppc.tar.bz2
tar -Ixf j2sdk-1.3.0beta-b02-linux-ppc-debug.tar.bz2
chown -R desired_owner:desired_group j2sdk1.3/
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/j2sdk1.3/bin


JDK 1.2.2
---------
cd /usr/local
tar -Ixf jdk-1.2.2-FCS-linux-ppc-glibc-2.1.3.tar.bz2
tar -Ixf jdk-1.2.2-FCS-linux-ppc-glibc-2.1.3-debug.tar.bz2
chown -R desired_owner:desired_group jdk1.2.2/
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/jdk1.2.2/bin


JDK 1.1.8
---------
cd /usr/local
tar -Ixf jdk118_v3.tar.bz2
chown -R desired_owner:desired_group jdk118_v3/
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/jdk118_v3/bin


JRE
---
If you are just interested the Java Runtime Environment (JRE),
jre only versions are also available to be installed:

jre1.3.0:   j2jre-1.3.0beta-b02-linux-ppc.tar.bz2
jre1.1.2:   jre-1.2.2-FCS-linux-ppc-glibc-2.1.3.tar.bz2
jre1.1.8    jre118_v3.tar.bz2


Bug Reporting, Problem WorkArounds/ Etc
---------------------------------------
Before submitting a bug-report to Blackdown please 
check out the status of known and fixed bugs available 
from the main Blackdown website at:

http://www.blackdown.org
Your Home for Java on Linux


Thanks,

Kevin B. Hendricks
Blackdown Java-Linux Porting Team