Java on FreeBSD has been working for a long time. While most things worked, it was never officially supported, as it was not a complete implementation. Not everything on the JVM worked as expected on FreeBSD. Well, that has changed (I might be late to join the party on this one!) and Java 6 is officially supported now, and the downloads include pre-built binaries.
BTW, they’ve dropped official support for the Java 5 JVM. From their Java project page:
Packages for JDK/JRE 1.5.0 are still available for download although they are not supported any longer.
I stopped using FreeBSD since I started using a multi-core desktop and FreeBSD did not have SMP support . Even that has changed, and they have come a long way from FreeBSD 5. I’ll be keeping a close watch on them. Who knows, maybe the whole of XP-Dev.com might run on FreeBSD in the future ?
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