On Mon, 28 May 2012 12:31:27 +0200, Casper Bang <casper.b...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Empirical evidence suggests it will always be advantageous to use Linux
over Windows, and Windows over Mac, if official reference JDK's are your
preference. Keep in mind though, that the Sun/Oracle binary is probably
It was like that in the past, now that Oracle builds at the same time
official binaries for all these o.s. there's no more difference.
going away, since they withdrew the "Operating System Distributor
License"
(I.e. Sun/Oracle's own reference implementation is no longer to be found
on
various Linux distros). It's entirely unfounded conjecture on my part,
but
I suspect that Oracle will eventually push a proprietary optimized server
JDK as alternative to OpenJDK.
On Linux the cited OSDL has been dropped because it's no longer needed.
Once upon a time there were no OpenJDK or OpenJDK was still too buggy, and
thus people were forced to use Sun's JDK. OSDL allowed it to be part of
some Linux distros even though it was not open source. Now that OpenJDK is
more reliable (even though not perfect), a "fully open source Linux guy"
can work with OpenJDK.
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