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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Oracle Java or Open Java?
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 21:46:17 +0100
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* Martin Gregorie:

> On Sun, 11 Nov 2012 19:00:03 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
>
>> * Arne Vajhøj:
>> 
>>>> What kind of issues were those?  I am asking because OpenJDK makes up
>>>> by far the largest part of OracleJDK AFAIK.  It would be interesting
>>>> to learn of the differences via those issues.
>>>
>>> According to http://jdk7.java.net/source.html the last OpenJDK release
>>> was August 28th as u6.
>> 
>> The source bundles are not regularly updated.  You should get the
>> sources from Mercurial, or use IcedTea, which includes additional fixes
>> for system compatibility issues.
>
> In that case I'm confused: 
> Fedora 17 thinks it installed openjdk 1.7.0.9 on October 26

Fedora gets its bits from IcedTea, which it turn uses the Mercurial
forest at, uhm, <http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u/>, I think.

It's indeed a bit confusing.