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Re:Tell HN: Oracle now requires you to login when you try to... by PedroBatista on Monday August 26, 2019 @11:25AM (#20800611)
Good for them, with some luck they'll even pull some Open Solaris to Solaris to Death move.

Meanwhile: https://adoptopenjdk.net/

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Re:Tell HN: Oracle now requires you to login when you try to... by vbezhenar on Monday August 26, 2019 @01:18PM (#20801708)
Or https://www.azul.com/downloads/zulu-community/ which claims to be TCK-tested (whatever that means)
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Re:Tell HN: Oracle now requires you to login when you try to... by Krasnol on Monday August 26, 2019 @11:45AM (#20800766)
TIL!

Thank you it worked out pretty well for the application with which I've been using it the most. Never seen it starting so fast.

Are there any downsides to this?

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Re:Tell HN: Oracle now requires you to login when you try to... by taftster on Monday August 26, 2019 @11:57AM (#20800875)
The Oracle JVM and the OpenJDK JVM (as provided by AdoptOpenJDK and friends) are for all practical purposes identical. There was a time when OpenJDK was still young that you'd probably prefer the Oracle JVM. But since maybe 5-7 years now, the Oracle JVM is basically composed of the OpenJDK plus some additional Oracle licensed features that don't affect many/most applications.

In short, use the OpenJDK for your project. There are no real downsides for 98% of applications. AdoptOpenJDK is a great source, or likewise vendors like Redhat who are also maintaining OpenJDK distributions.

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Re:Tell HN: Oracle now requires you to login when you try to... by Krasnol on Monday August 26, 2019 @11:58AM (#20800889)
Thank you. I'll keep it :)
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Re:Tell HN: Oracle now requires you to login when you try to... by zsrxx on Monday August 26, 2019 @01:40PM (#20801945)
My only experience with OpenJDK is trying to run Minecraft with it at much worse performance than Oracle's JRE
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