Blackdown Java is a port of Sun Microsystems's Java virtual machine to Linux by a group of volunteers led by Karl Asha. Sun Microsystems Inc ( is a multinational vendor of Computers computer components Computer software, and Information technology services A Java Virtual Machine ( JVM) is a set of computer software programs and data structures which use a Virtual machine Linux (commonly pronounced ˈlɪnəks Karl Asha (Born Kareem Ismat Rafik Asha 16 June 1974 in Beirut, Lebanon) is the initiator of the Blackdown Java project It predates Sun's official Linux port. It still supports platforms that the official version does not, including SPARC and PowerPC. SPARC (from Scalable Processor Architecture is a RISC Microprocessor Instruction set architecture originally PowerPC is a RISC Instruction set architecture created by the 1991 Apple – IBM – Motorola alliance known as AIM Currently, Blackdown Java supports up to version 1. 5 of the Java run-time libraries.
Despite widespread confusion, Blackdown is neither free software nor open-source software. Free software or software libre is Software that can be used studied and modified without restriction and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified Open source software (OSS began as a marketing campaign for Free software. The reason that it was the default Java in Gentoo Linux and many other distributions, is because the binary redistribution policy allows it to be pre-installed or distributed through that distribution's package management system, whereas at the time, Sun Java's binary redistribution policy did not. The Gentoo Linux Operating system (ˈdʒɛntuː is a Linux distribution based on the Portage Package management system.
Since Java 5, the Operating System Distributor License for Java (DLJ) meets many Linux distributions' requirements, so it is now the default for at least Gentoo Linux, unless you specify Java 1. The Gentoo Linux Operating system (ˈdʒɛntuː is a Linux distribution based on the Portage Package management system. 4 or earlier, for which the DLJ does not apply.
The project appears to have been closed. The Java software itself still exists on many mirrors.
External links
- jdk-distros: community collaboration with the DLJ - The official site for the DLJ.
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