Hi Niels, Others have answered q 1-2, so: > 3. Any chance of getting Java 1.5(or newer) working? > (sofar it appears to be x86 or amd only) Landon Fuller has done a sparc64 port, so that could be used as the basis to get a ppc port going: http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/code/java/Porting_To_FreeBSD_Sparc.20080204.html later, Peter.