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From: Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: which JDK to use?
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 20:15:18 -0400
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On 09/05/2011 06:56 PM, Roedy Green wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Sep 2011 13:16:16 -0700 (PDT), Lew<lewbloch@gmail.com>
> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
>
>>
>> Anyway, for the OP's purpose just use either one.
>
> many problems have to do with installations, set parms etc.  A newbie
> will sidestep many complications if he sticks to Oracle to start.
>
> You are giving advice that would be suitable for someone like
> yourself, not a newbie.
On this Debian distro installing the Debian packaged JDK is less 
complicated than installing the Oracle packaged JDK.