Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!usenet.ukfsn.org!not-for-mail From: Martin Gregorie Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Oracle Java or Open Java? Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 01:38:43 +0000 (UTC) Organization: UK Free Software Network Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.45.235.129 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: localhost.localdomain 1352338723 9317 84.45.235.129 (8 Nov 2012 01:38:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@localhost.localdomain NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 01:38:43 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:19652 On Wed, 07 Nov 2012 20:22:58 -0400, Arved Sandstrom wrote: > On 11/07/2012 07:42 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote: >> Last time I remember any discussion of using the Open JDK there was a >> general opinion that Sun^WOracle Java was still the way to go. >> >> Is this still the case? >> > I'm willing to give the OpenJDK a shot, especially on OS's where it > comes by default, but at the first sign of problems I switch to Oracle > JDK. And every so often I have had problems with the OpenJDK. > OK, thanks. I'm a Fedora user: I think its possible to install it without OpenJDK, though I'll admit I haven't been trying very hard. Dependencies seem to pull at least the JRE in, though as one of my first customization actions is to change $PATH, putting the Sun/Orcl SDK earlier in the search path, the only disadvantages are the diskspace and periodic upgrade overheads. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |