From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2006-02-22T15:48:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Rubuntu LiveCD I need vim/emacs configs!

On 2/21/06, David Vallner <david@vallner.net> wrote:> D�a Utorok 21 Febru�r 2006 16:38 Jon Baer nap�sal:> > Ive switched from emacs to the new RadRails IDE as it is pretty slick> > although Im not sure if included a Java JVM will bloat your distro any> > or *if* you are even allowed to include a VM (I think you are) ...> >>> sun-j2re from an unofficial Debian repository, 30 MB compressed, 90 MB> uncompressed. It doth hurt a bit, but I'd put it in for the heck of it if> possible. I think Eclipse itself amounts to more, and even Postgres eats 20> megs in full.>> The problem is, the Sun Java is classified as non-free, so I don't think you> can bundle that in an "official" Debian-based distribution - don't know if> Ubuntu loosened their licencing restrictions on the issue.
why not just use ubuntu's free-java-sdk which wraps around the GNUtools and acts as a replacement for sun's SDK.
it's in universe on breezy