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Add icedtea notes to README.

Rob Austein 5 years ago
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@@ -14,3 +14,14 @@ See `create.sh` and `run.sh` for ways one might use the image.
 
 Something along the lines of the `run.sh` formulation might work well
 as the command portion of a tunneling `ssh -L 5900:127.0.0.1:5900` command.
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+This version is based on Ubuntu rather than Debian, because I was
+trying to get the icedtea-web Java Plugin stuff to work.  Still fails,
+too many things know that no browser supports this crap anymore.
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+In theory, we might be able to get somewhere by building icedtea
+ourselves, or using an old packaged version.  See:
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+* <https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK/icedtea-web>
+* <https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/icedtea-web>
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