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Subject: Re: Oracle Java or Open Java?
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* 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.