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Ubuntu 14.04 Might Drop OpenJDK Java Support
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Originally posted by Fraaargh View PostHum well, you're using a quite prehistoric version of Java: Java 6 We're already seeing Java8 around the corner !
Since Java7, OpenJDK is THE reference impelmentation and 99.9% of application won't see any difference.
It's astonishing to see how legends (granted they were true in the old times) are hard to overcome in people's mind.
Originally posted by CalinouNot only they can't do that because of license reasons, it's also proprietary, so no.
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Originally posted by Sonadow View PostI won't know about that.
But i do know that every time I try to start IntelliJ i get a warning about
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I kind of like it. I prefer things to be compiled to binary if possible. However, I fail to understand from the article what was wrong with OpenJDK to quit using it by default. As said by actual Java users, that shouldn't be a decision to make lightly.
OTOH, maybe it will give motivation for more maintenance on GCJ, maybe even get it to build Tomcat.
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Originally posted by Fraaargh View PostThat said, discarding OpenJDL from main Ubuntu is a strange move as I imagine the cumber of developpers using it every day is quite high...
Technically what is the problem ? Does Ubuntu has many specific patches to apply to OpenJDK ? What justifies it ? Seems strange to me...
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Originally posted by ChrisXY View PostBut it's interesting how you actually make an effort to replace free and open source software with partly proprietary one without even a quick check whether it's even beneficial in any way.
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Ubuntu maintainers are incompetent, so that they find maintaining OpenJDK difficult is no shock to me... They do not maintain many things anyway... Outside a few core apps and libs, all other packages are heavily outdated most of the time...
But i wouldn't worry about it. Developers and other professionals never use Ubuntu to begin with...
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Originally posted by Sonadow View PostMight as well drop OpenJDK completely and direct users to the official Oracle implementation of Java since it has better performance.
OpenJDK is always the first package to be uninstalled in any distribution I use, being replaced with Oracle JDK
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