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Tomodachi94 Nov 3, 2024

OracleJDK is dead in Nixpkgs, long live OpenJDK

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/353043

#Nixpkgs #OracleJDK #OpenJDK #Java #Oracle

The OracleJDK Dehaunting by tomodachi94 · Pull Request #353043 · NixOS/nixpkgs

"Unmaintained security disaster" -anonymous Nixpkgs maintainer The Ghostbusters #jvm:nixos.org channel is coming to bust some ghosts old JDKs. We dropped a few unsupported or unmaintained...

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Bahman Movaqar Sep 16, 2023

What a year 2023 has been so far!

So many license terms or terms of services changed when no one was expecting any of it:

#Lightbend (#Akka)
#Hashicorp (#Terraform, #Vault, #Vagrant, ...)
#Unity
#Reddit
#Xitter (#Twitter)
#Oracle (#OracleJDK)

And a bunch of others that I don't remember now.

It was my wake-up call, indeed.

The best thing for me has been joining #Mastodon and #Lemmy and away from those not open source projects.

#FOSS #LiberateYourTechnologyStack #VendorLockIn

Markus Eisele Aug 9, 2023

Is OpenJDK Just a Drop-In Replacement for the #OracleJDK? https://debugagent.com/is-openjdk-just-a-drop-in-replacement by Shai Almog
#Java #openjdk

Is OpenJDK Just a Drop-In Replacement?

I don’t know anyone who is still using the Oracle JDK. It has been my recommendation for quite a while to just switch to an OpenJDK distribution as they are roughly drop-in replacements for Oracle’s official JDK. I’ve repeated that advice quite frequ...

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