On Tue, February 15, 2005 10:30 pm, Rodd Clarkson said: > I'm a little confused about all this so please be gentle. > > I'm looking for a JRE to use as a plugin for Firefox. In the past I > would have just hooked into the jre pluggin supplied with Sun's Java, > but since I'm testing the current fedora 4 development and it seems that > FC4 intends to do without the need for Sun's Java (I could be wrong) > could someone tell me what package I'm supposed to install to get a JRE > for firefox (and any other steps I might need to perform). > Hi Rodd, You'll still need to install a Java Runtime for Firefox, and the process is the same as usual. The GNU compiler has improved to a point where many java programs can be compiled and run without needing a proprietary runtime, and that is likely the chatter you've been hearing. However, it's not yet a general replacement for the proprietary JRE's. Cheers, Sean