1 |
On 4/23/2019 4:31 PM, Holger Hoffstätte wrote: |
2 |
|
3 |
> since JDK9+, nothing else. There is no notable difference between |
4 |
> oracle-jdk-8, icedtea-8 or openjdk-8 other than IcedTea (being the JDK-8 |
5 |
> LTS maintained by RedHat) also containing the (awesome) Shenandoah GC - |
6 |
> which was also merged into the official upstream JDK12. |
7 |
|
8 |
Ah, ok; so icedtea-3.11.0 is actually jdk 8? And would be a reasonable |
9 |
"swap in place" for oracle-jdk-bin-1.8.0.202? |
10 |
|
11 |
> openjdk-bin-8 as system VM. It is also perfectly "safe" to install openjdk-11 in parallel |
12 |
> with said flag enabled as long as you don't set it as system VM or know |
13 |
> what you're doing. |
14 |
|
15 |
What's the difference between icedtea-bin and openjdk-bin? Which one is |
16 |
going to be the better long-term replacement for the proprietary Oracle |
17 |
jdk? Unless it is labeled differently it doesn't seem any other |
18 |
distribution is using icedtea, all of their packages are labeled openjdk. |
19 |
|
20 |
Thanks much for the info… |