Ubuntu 9.04 and the latest official Java JRE/JDK

Fri Jul 10 10:52:10 UTC 2009

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 01:38:01PM +0300, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> 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 This has as a result, either to stay with an outdated version of JRE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?

Short on human resources, I bet.  If you need it badly enough, either
build an installer yourself or lacking knowledge raise some funds
to get it done.

my 2¢
 Siggy

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