The FreeBSD Foundation today announced the availability of a binary distribution of the Java JDK version 1.3.1 for the widely used FreeBSD operating system.

Wes Peters of the FreeBSD Core Team commented “This announcement hallmarks a new era of Java support for FreeBSD. Having easy to install binary Java packages will ensure that all users can enjoy the benefits of Java technology on the FreeBSD platform.”

Java users can download, without charge, the FreeBSD Foundation’s Java distribution from http://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml. The FreeBSD Foundation is also providing OEM licenses to FreeBSD distributors, permitting them to ship out-of-the-box Java support with FreeBSD.

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