Hi again and sorry for the late reply,
That is an interesting experiment. :)
Getting java installed by default is not likely to happen. Java runtimes are
not exactly "cheap" space-wise and a lot of setups do not need it. Technically
it is possible to rename the packages themselves, but it is no
Hi,
Thanks for the excellent explanation and I can see why its named as it is. I
setup an experiment with a friend who is not a tech user and was recording what
usability issues she runs into with Ubuntu (without any other person to help
her) and this was one of them. So asked on her behalf and
Hi
Most JVMs (including Oracle/Sun's java and openjdk-6) have more than one
variant. For instance openjdk-6 ships a server variant (see man java or java
-help), which makes the JVM assume that will be run for "long periods of time".
It also has a client variant that attempts to reduce start-up
