i installed fedora core6, then came to know that java is not supplied with it, can u help me by naming some distros with built in java, does RHL5+ has it?
the reason java is not installed is it is not compatible with the licenses of the software distribution. It is simple enough to download and install and there are plenty of distributions that will allow you to easily install it.
OpenSUSE 11.1, I believe, has it available in their repositories. I'd give them a try.
Ubunto V8.10 seems to have come with Java built in..:
$ java -version
java version "1.6.0_0"
IcedTea6 1.3.1 (6b12-0ubuntu5) Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_0-b12)
CACAO (build 0.99.3+hg, compiled mode)
$ type java
java is hashed (/usr/bin/java)
$ whereis java
java: /usr/bin/java /usr/share/java /usr/share/man/man1/java.1.gz
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