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From: "Paul B. Henson" <henson@×××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: openjdk?
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 01:17:54
Message-Id: c27aa5ba-eb5e-bfaf-9e0e-508b96e83eb6@acm.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: openjdk? by "Holger Hoffstätte"
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…

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: openjdk? Adam Carter <adamcarter3@×××××.com>
[gentoo-user] Re: openjdk? "Holger Hoffstätte" <holger@××××××××××××××××××.com>