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: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 19:07:12 +0000 (UTC) Organization: UK Free Software Network Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <509bec96$0$288$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <87wqxsf2ak.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> 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 1352660832 24911 84.45.235.129 (11 Nov 2012 19:07:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@localhost.localdomain NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 19:07:12 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:19698 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 -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |