Hi,

We''re planning on providing two distributions for the release, a standard installer for each platform, and a generic Java distribution. We can certainly make the generic Java distribution a gzipped tar ball (we expect it would mostly be unix guys using the generic distribution so tar balls make sense.

Are you having trouble unzipping the beta? I thought zip programs come standard on pretty much all platforms. In addition, since you do have Java, you can use the Java jar tool to unzip files:

jar -xvf name_of_zip.zip

-iain