Re: Java & Linux <SMALL>Alpha?</SMALL>

[Rich Payne <rdp talisman alphalinux org>]

On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Themis Lazaridis wrote:

> Finding software for alpha-linux is its biggest drawback.
> I wanted to run Acrobat reader, someone said try the web-based
> version, but that needed java, and there was no java for alpha-linux.

You can run either the Tru64 version or the Intel version, or use
something else like xpdf.
 
> Why is it so difficult to organize alpha-linux so that
> it can automatically run OSF executables? What does Compaq
> say about this? 

It already does run Tru64 executable, but you need Tru64 libraries to go
along with that ($99  non-commecial or $1200 commercial).

--rdp

> T Lazaridis
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Rich Payne
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