Java - Sun or other? Prefer less bugs & more stable.

[Christopher Chan]

On Friday, May 14, 2010 03:12 PM, giovanni_re wrote:
> What are the options for Java as of 10.4?
>
> Around 9.04, IIRC, there was Sun's,&  another independent implementation considered Debian free.  The sun version IIRC was considered more bug free, but perhaps not DFSG free.
>
> I'd prefer less bugs&  more stable.
>
> This will be used by some applications that need a java engine to run java code.  Ex: Eclipse?&  some others I don't recall.
>
> For a 10.4 install, what is the current advice&  issues??
>

I'd imagine OpenJDk which is after all largely from Sun Java code that 
has been gpl'ed...

Unless you are using stuff that is found in Sun's Java that has not yet 
been or cannot be gpl'ed...