John Mahowald

Java IcedTea (OpenJDK) — by jpmahowald — last modified May 07, 2008 03:38 AM

Previously to get a Sun JDK for Java required additional steps as it was not redistributable. With IcedTea, based on OpenJDK, there is a Fedora package of the Java 1.7 preview.

Non-free plugins for GStreamer — by jpmahowald — last modified Dec 02, 2009 01:07 PM

GStreamer is a multimedia framework used by many media players including rhythmbox, banshee, totem, listen, exaile and others. Due to legal issues support for various non-free formats , including mp3 files, aren't included with GStreamer by default. You can add support for mp3 and other formats by installing an add-on package from the third party repository rpm.livna.org

Java OpenJDK — by jpmahowald — last modified Apr 03, 2008 02:37 PM

Previous versions of Fedora included a version of Java called IcedTea. Now Java is called openjdk, being based on the OpenJDK project. Follow this to get a JVM, javac compiler, and browser plugin