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There is a warning at the start of the EPP page: http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/index-developer.php to Linux users regarding the use of Eclipse with gcj. This warning is no longer that relevant/important with the obsoletion of gcj and the prevalence of openJDK. It is suggested that this warning now be removed. At most, a warning could be listed on the Details page, but it even that isn't that necessary with information already noted in "Known Issues".
Anything to remove clutter. Over to Nathan.
Question about gcj in linux distros: do existing distros automatically replace gcj as the default with OpenJDK? Sure, a new installation of linux will have OpenJDK, but what about all those existing installs that had gcj to begin with?
(In reply to comment #2) > Question about gcj in linux distros: do existing distros automatically > replace gcj as the default with OpenJDK? Sure, a new installation of linux > will have OpenJDK, but what about all those existing installs that had gcj > to begin with? Well, in Fedora case OpenJDK is the default since 13 May 2008 (Fedora 9 - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JavaFAQ). Suse has it since their 11.0( released 2009) release which EOLed last year. Debian Lenny (released 2009) had it too. See https://blogs.oracle.com/barton808/entry/open_jdk_in_debian_s for details. So I can say that existing distros has OpenJDK by default and the versions that had gcj are EOLed already (even Debian Lenny http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/). I hope that this is enough proof :).
It seems the GCJ warning is long gone from the downloads page... Resolved/Fixed?
(In reply to comment #4) > It seems the GCJ warning is long gone from the downloads page... > Resolved/Fixed? Ok with me, the reporter.
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