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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Oracle Java or Open Java?
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* Arne Vajhøj:

> But for production usage, then getting latest and greatest source
> and build it is not the same as getting a labelled version with
> release notes and an expectation that it has passed some testing.

We're talking about OpenJDK.  Building from source is the only option.
Oracle does not release binaries, and everyone else has various
patches (system zlib, no crypto restrictions, /usr/lib/jni on the
search path are pretty much unavoidable).