[Live-demo] OpenJDK Only for LiveDVD 5.5?

[Andrea Aime]

On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Andrea Aime <andrea.aime at geo-solutions.it>wrote:

> The brief facts:
>> * Sun Java is not allowed to be packaged into future distributions (like
>> ubuntu, debian, or OSGeo-Live). Instead, users are expected to download
>> SunJava from Sun.
>> * SunJava 7 will be based upon OpenJDK.
>> * OpenJDK is reportedly much better than previous OpenJDK versions.
>>
>
Hmmm.... I wanted to run a benchmark to substantiate this claim but there
are no OpenJDK 7 binaries available
for my aging Ubuntu 10.04 (which I'll upgrade only when the new LTS shows
up).

Also, on Windows there are no OpenJDK builds so in the end we need to
target Oracle JDK anyways (besides
the obvious business reasons), this means a OpenJDK support will have to
come in parallel (aka "more work")

Cheers
Andrea

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