[ale] Webex on Linux (was Re: Fw: VirtualBox)

[Jim Kinney]

requires a bazillion year old java (1.3) and as such is not safe for modern
use. We have a pile of KVM that also use a bazillion year old java which we
can't use on our desktops.

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> Geoffrey Myers <lists at serioustechnology.com> writes:
>
> > Derek Atkins wrote:
> >> Geoffrey Myers <lists at serioustechnology.com> writes:
> >>
> >>>> VB works fine for me to run XP so that I can do Webex but I use Vmware
> >>>> for production.
> >>> webex works on Linux.
> >>
> >> I've not been able to get it to work on anything more recent than
> >> RHEL/CentOS 4.  Maybe it's the version of Java I have installed,
> >> but it certainly hasn't worked on any Fedora installation I've had
> >> since Fedora 10.
> >
> > I use it on Mandriva 2009 powerpack and RHEL 5.4.
>
> Hmm, when I tried on RHEL 5.x it didn't work, and my co-worker couldn't
> get it to work, either.  Similarly, I haven't been able to get it to
> work on Fedora.
>
> *shrugs*
>
> -derek
>
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