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Re:Java.sun.com is down again - breaking bad apps across the... by quink on Saturday April 28, 2012 @11:03PM (#3904942)
Hang on... WTH???

The most popular virtualisation software out there that's full-featured and free to use... is shutting down their website for three days for planned maintenance?

This is something that would have happened in 1993. Maybe. Between this and java.sun.com being offline it's pretty much the biggest red flag to stay away from Oracle as far as possible I could imagine.

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Re:Java.sun.com is down again - breaking bad apps across the... by llimllib on Saturday April 28, 2012 @11:56PM (#3905030)
And the coursera compilers class is distributing its dev environment as a virtualbox image. I'm lucky I have a copy already.
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Re:Java.sun.com is down again - breaking bad apps across the... by harshreality on Sunday April 29, 2012 @01:12AM (#3905175)
Downloads are still there.

http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.1.14/

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Re:Java.sun.com is down again - breaking bad apps across the... by HaakonKL on Sunday April 29, 2012 @03:41AM (#3905416)
Worst case scenario, you'd get it from your package manager.

There's likely a few downloads on torrent sites for the download as well.

Since it's FLOSS it should be legal to grab it from torrents anyway.

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Re:Java.sun.com is down again - breaking bad apps across the... by jsprinkles on Sunday April 29, 2012 @02:11AM (#3905262)
Could be any number of things, operationally, and could also have a buffer built-in to the maintenance window to avoid unexpected issues.

Take a breath, you have more important things to worry about.

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