Currently, there is only one option for Java VM and Java SDK on Gentoo/Alpha. The packages are called compaq-jre and compaq-jdk.

The Gentoo/Alpha project is responsible for keeping the Gentoo distribution updated and current for the Alpha platform. This primarily includes keywording packages, porting software, and making new releases. The Gentoo/Alpha project aims to provide a usable environment for both desktops and servers.

Admittedly, you can find faster 64-bit systems out there, like amd64. However, that doesn't mean that Alpha systems are useless. The following are a few good reasons why you'd want to install Linux on this sort of hardware: You can turn an old computer into something useful. Older Alphas make great routers and servers. Their desktop performance isn't that bad either.

On the Gentoo Forums there are several arch specific categories like Gentoo on PPC and Gentoo on Sparc. There is no Gentoo on Alpha category because there simply isn't enough Gentoo/Alpha activity on the forums to warrant one. All Alpha related posts should go in the Gentoo on Alternative Architectures category.

If any of your questions weren't answered here, you can try other resources like the Alpha Handbook or our project homepage. You can also ask us at #gentoo-alpha on irc.freenode.net, Gentoo on Alternative Architectures Forum, or on the gentoo-alpha@lists.gentoo.org mailing list.

You can find out about the current status of the Gentoo/Alpha project via status reports. These reports inform the public about what we've been up to. New status reports will be posted about once every 6 months. Current and past status report can be found on the Status Reports Project page. Not yet! HP will be taking orders for new Alpha systems until October 27, 2006 and Alpha options and upgrades until November 2, 2007. See their planning page for more details.

Yes, a Java plugin is now available with IBM's Java 1.5. Note that not all Java applications work with Java 1.5 yet.

Well, not really. Macromedia has not supplied a linux/ppc binary and open source implementations are incomplete and buggy at this time. Three projects that are working on this problem are: Another possible workaround for now is to use qemu (an x86 emulator) to run the Macromedia Flash Player 6 stand alone player. This process was described in the forums: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=117774

Java Sound supports the following audio file formats: AIFF, AU and WAV. It also supports the following MIDI based song file formats: SMF type 0 (Standard MIDI File, aka .mid files), SMF type 1 and RMF. The Java Sound engine can render 8 or 16 bit audio data, in mono or stereo, with sample rates from 8KHz to 48KHz, that might be found in streaming audio or any of the supported file formats.

The primary and preferred font format is the TrueType font format. Java 2D also supports Opentype layout tables within TrueType fonts for complex text rendering (Arabic, Indic etc). In addition Java 2D supports Postscript Type1 fonts. Are any fonts bundled with Java 2D? A: Yes, the Java SE SDK includes three Lucida TrueType font families: Lucida Sans (Sans Serif), Lucida Typewriter (Terminal/Monospaced) and Lucida Bright (Serif).

Prayer partners can often be found amongst Christian work colleagues, your church or organized prayer groups. Many men and women desire to be used in ministry and this is an excellent way to partner with them.

AspectJ is a registered trademark of Palo Alto Research Center, Incorporated (PARC), used with permission. Java and all Java-based marks are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

I'm not a Gentoo user so I can't provide a package for Gentoo. However, Mike Kelly has released a Gentoo package for DenyHosts.

Learn how to work with Gentoo: installing software, altering variables, changing Portage behaviour etc. This chapter explains the "simple" steps a user definitely needs to know to maintain the software on his system. USE flags are a very important aspect of Gentoo. In this chapter, you learn to work with USE flags and understand how USE flags interact with your system.

According to posts in webtv.users from Steve Perlman, ex-president of WebTV, WebTV has been working to provide a form of Personal Java for the WebTV Plus terminal (and possibly the new Classics and Dishplayer, but nothing was said specifically about them as they were not announced products at the time of the posts)?there is no guarantee this will happen. For the full text of Steve's posts, click here.

PMR Hosting supports all client-side languages, including Java and Javascript. Currently due to the lack of a stable and efficient Java engine for the BSD operating system we don't offer server side Java. If current engines improve we may consider this in the future. PMR Hosting is a Unix-only hosting solution. These technologies are restricted to Windows platforms, and are not included in PMR Hosting service offerings.

Yes, all of our plug-ins have alpha channel support. For Psyclone, P_Liquid, and Pyro, the alpha channel is turned off by default. To activate, please go to the Shader attribtute editor -> Render Controls -> Output Channels and activate Compute Matte Opacity. Note that this will significantly increase render times.

The AspectJ compiler produces programs for any released version of the Java platform (jdk1.1 and later). When running, your program classes must be able to reach classes in the small (< 100K) runtime library (aspectjrt.jar) from the distribution. The tools themselves require J2SE 1.3 or later to run, but the compiler can produce classes for any 1.1-compliant version of the Java platform.

Our development tools are Microsoft Windows dependent. However, our microprocessor cards are platform independent and support any PCSC interface.

Please see our Multimedia and Developer account for all the programming features that are available. At present we do not support java servlets.

Because pointers are unsafe. Java uses reference types to hide pointers and programmers feel easier to deal with reference types without pointers. This is why Java and C-sharp shine. Parsers are fundamental xml components, a bridge between XML documents and applications that process that XML. The parser is responsible for handling xml syntax, checking the contents of the document against constraints established in a DTD or Schema.

Unfortunately not. Our SDK is designed for used with Borland C++Builder (Version 6) and Delphi. We supply export libraries that allow it to be used with Microsoft C++. We plan to offer a Linux SDK in the future. There are currently no plans to support JAVA or VB. Those wishing to write their own can do so fairly easily using the ArtNet.h file supplied with the SDK. A basic driver need only support ArtPoll, ArtPollReply and ArtDMX. Yes it does.

Java servlet support comes with IBM WebSphere Application Server. The latest information can be found at IBM Websphere Application Server site. Yes. You can serve Java applets, using an Apache server. Using Websphere Application Server, you can also serve Servlets and JSPs from Apache. HTTP Server does not support running Java CGI programs as of V5R3.

We currently provide a Unix-only hosting solution. Due to technological limitations these technologies are restricted to Windows platforms only and are not supported by our servers. We do however support many popular alternatives to the above such as MySQL, PHP, Perl and many others.

No, we don't support java applets since they require special software running on the server and most website owners don't need this service .