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Bug 387891

Summary:	Change the Linux + Users sticky note
Product:	Community	Reporter:	Krzysztof Daniel <krzysztof.daniel>
Component:	Forums and Newsgroups	Assignee:	Forums and Newsgroups inbox <forums-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	akurtakov, eclipse-bugs, krzysztof.daniel, pwebster, webmaster
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
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Description Krzysztof Daniel

2012-08-23 07:17:44 EDT

The sticky note http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/t/161212/ says:

"Also note that some Linux distrobutions include a version of Eclipse, or make one available from their own package installation tools. It is strongly recommended to NOT use such packages and to instead download Eclipse directly from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads."

Ideally, I'd like to have it changed to:

=== Begin ===

Linuxes may provide packaged Eclipse. Those packages may be tailored to certain needs and therefore may differ in shape and behaviour from the original Eclipse provided by the Eclipse Foundation, therefore all issues with those packages should be routed via appropriate Linux bug trackers.

FAQ:
Which Eclipse do I have?
if you have downloaded one from eclipse.org, you have the Eclipse Foundation one. If you have downloaded and installed rpm or deb package, you have a linux version.

== End ===

Comment 1 Eric Rizzo

2012-08-23 10:15:07 EDT

I updated the text, although I added one more sentence to maintain an emphasis on getting it from eclipse.org is usually what users want.

Comment 2 Alexander Kurtakov

2012-08-23 10:20:25 EDT

The statement about gcj not true anymore. Most Linux distributions have openjdk as default so the whole paragraph can be removed now.

Comment 3 Eric Rizzo

2012-08-23 10:28:24 EDT

(In reply to comment #2)
> The statement about gcj not true anymore. Most Linux distributions have
> openjdk as default so the whole paragraph can be removed now.

I'm not a linux user, so haven't seen a clean install of it in a long time; but as far as I know there are still plenty of people coming to the forums and other sites like Stack Overflow with that issue.
Can you provide any references that show OpenJDK is widespread now? What about people with existing linux installs, won't they still have gcj?

Comment 4 Krzysztof Daniel

2012-08-23 10:38:10 EDT

There is a separate bug 348268 for gcj issue. Re-closing.

Comment 5 Eric Rizzo

2012-08-23 14:20:56 EDT

Based on Bug 348268 Comment 3 I updated the sticky post to de-emphasize the gcj warning.