I remember sitting at a table, eating lunch, with a fellow from Sun who mentioned to me that he was a Linux lover, and was so busy with his JDK internals releases that he didn't have any time for Linux. Of course, that was almost a year ago. Since then, our most stable JDK release has been the 1.1.3 SBB Release. I have tried the others but have been unable to make anything else run. The SBB release was done by Steve as a freebie for the rest of the Linux world.
Applause is in order.
And I think Steve should get recognition inside Sun for doing such a fine job. Now Steve is probably hard at work on JDK 1.2 releases. I can only hope, along with the rest of us, that what he learned porting to Linux has made it into the 1.2 source code, as he promised sometime last year. I am impatient to see the 1.1.5 release that you mentioned Steve. And I'd love to be corrected if any of my assumptions here are false.