[NTLUG:Discuss] I hate IcedTea

[Stephen Davidson]

Hi Leroy.

Heads up - Unfortunately you may now have a security issue - Oracle/Sun
JDK is still working on applying fixes & patches for stability and
security.  See Java Security bulletins for the last 12 months.  Iced Tea
folks have been applying said patches all along.  You may have
inadvertently opened a Security hole in your system, so heads up.  For
Linux based systems, I've been recommending Iced Tea because it has been
much more secure than the Oracle Java.  Check Oracle's Java bug list to
see what they had been closing as "Not an issue" and why.

Regards,
Steve

On 06/04/2013 12:57 AM, Leroy Tennison wrote:
> <Rant> I understand the desire for open source alternatives to
> proprietary technology but they have to work...  A recent OpenSuse
> update stopped a working IcedTea configuration to my corporate network
> and I really need that connection right now. </Rant>
>
> For those using OpenSuse the solution may be to switch back to Java,
> for me it meant:
>
> Disabled IcedTea in firefox
> Downloaded the latest x64 jre from java.com (didn't use an rpm, did
> tar -xzf ...)
> Created /usr/java, moved the download there and expanded it, created
> symlink 'latest' to the jre... directory
> Found firefox.sh installed by OpenSuse and discerned from it that
> plugins are kept in /usr/lib64/browser-plugins
> In /usr/lib64/browser-plugins I renamed javaplugin.so to
> javaplugin.so-bad (no pun intended)
> Created a javaplugin symlink (hmmm, just realized I left off the so
> extension...) to /usr/java/latest/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so (per a web
> reference)
> Restarted firefox - an again-working solution!
>
> Hope this can help someone else.
>
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