Ubuntu 9.04 and the latest official Java JRE/JDK

[Ioannis Vranos]

In 8.10 and 9.04, Ubuntu uses as the default, the crappy OpenJDK. With crappy I mean it doesn't display 
well/correctly the Java applets in Firefox.


It also provides the official SUN Java JRE/JDK but with a note:

"Canonical does not provide updates for sun-java6-jre. Some updates may be provided by the Ubuntu community".


This has as a result, either to stay with an outdated version of JRE with security holes, which is NOT good, 
or force the users install and configure the latest Java JREs/JDKs manually, without being able to uninstall 
OpenJDK or the older SUN Java JRE/JDK from Synaptic, due to dependencies.


The simple solution to this, is Ubuntu to also provide the latest version of SUN Java JRE/JDK. Why don't they 
do this?



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Ioannis A. Vranos

C95 / C++03 Developer

http://www.cpp-software.net