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Re: Oracle Java or Open Java?

From Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: Oracle Java or Open Java?
Date 2012-11-11 19:07 +0000
Organization UK Free Software Network
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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



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Oracle Java or Open Java? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-11-07 23:42 +0000
  Re: Oracle Java or Open Java? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-11-07 18:46 -0500
  Re: Oracle Java or Open Java? Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca> - 2012-11-07 20:22 -0400
    Re: Oracle Java or Open Java? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-11-08 01:38 +0000
    Re: Oracle Java or Open Java? Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2012-11-08 18:03 +0100
      Re: Oracle Java or Open Java? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-11-08 12:32 -0500
        Re: Oracle Java or Open Java? Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> - 2012-11-11 19:00 +0100
          Re: Oracle Java or Open Java? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-11-11 19:07 +0000
            Re: Oracle Java or Open Java? Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> - 2012-11-11 21:46 +0100
          Re: Oracle Java or Open Java? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-11-11 17:29 -0500
            Re: Oracle Java or Open Java? Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> - 2012-11-19 21:46 +0100
              Re: Oracle Java or Open Java? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-11-19 16:11 -0500
      Re: Oracle Java or Open Java? Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca> - 2012-11-09 20:09 -0400
        Re: Oracle Java or Open Java? Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2012-11-11 18:01 +0100
  Re: Oracle Java or Open Java? Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> - 2012-11-09 02:50 +0100

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