On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 15:07 -0700, mark.reinh...@oracle.com wrote: > 2011/7/20 14:07 -0700, ahug...@redhat.com: > > On 08:41 Wed 20 Jul, mark.reinh...@oracle.com wrote: > >> The RI binaries are now available: http://jdk7.java.net/java-se-7-ri > > > > I thought the release wasn't until the 28th? Congrats. on getting it done > > early! > > Shipping the RI is part of finishing the JCP Final Release, > which is a different thing from shipping a supported product. > > > But aren't these kinda useless if they don't get security updates? > > They're meant only for testing and reference use, primarily > by implementors trying to get their implementations to pass > the JCK. > > > Will there be any useful GPL binaries? > > Yes -- from Red Hat, Canonical, Debian, and other Linux distros > as usual, I expect.
What Mark in his humbleness forgets to mention is that Oracle itself is a GNU/Linux distro vendor these days. As mentioned prominently on http://openjdk.java.net/install/ So when they update their OracleLinux distro, which has been shipping GPLed binaries and source of course for OpenJDK6/Icedtea, then there will I suppose also be new GPLed JDK7 packages here: http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/ There is even some icedtea-web love there :) Cheers, Mark
