The Mandelbear's Musings

Latest Releases of Fedora and Ubuntu Feature OpenJDK-based Implementations

SANTA CLARA, CA April 30, 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA), Canonical Ltd. and Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), today announced the inclusion of OpenJDK-based (http://openjdk.java.net) implementations in Fedora 9 and Ubuntu 8.04 Long Term Support (LTS) Server and Desktop editions, furthering the promise of Sun's open source Java technology initiative.

In addition, the NetBeans 6.0 Integrated Development Environment (IDE) (http://www.netbeans.org) is being delivered as part of the Ubuntu 8.04 LTS release and Canonical has certified Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server Edition on several Sun x86 systems.

Spent some time this morning filling in the remaining holes in my Java git blob classes -- specifically the part that conses up a header into a byte array. I didn't need it for the stream code, since it was more efficient to write it into the stream piecewise.

Spent most of the afternoon hacking Emacs lisp to finally solve a problem with gnus automatic mail-foldering that's been bothering me for a long time. You see, gnus (the Emacs mail/news reader) lets you match a series of regular expressions against your mail headers in order to decide what folder it belongs in. A lot of mail from mailing lists contains strings like "[mumble]" -- a tag in square brackets. Turns out our new spam-filtering appliance does that, too. Trouble is, gnus insists that the thing you match look like a word, meaning it has to begin and end with an alphanumeric.