Hi,
Thanks to all involved in participating to this bug report.
An early review of OpenJDK gave surprising results. Although it's still
not on par with the Oracle implementation (some apps/applets don't run,
others show different behavior or run slower), we were able to get
satisfying results in most of our test use cases with this open-source
implementation.
At this stage we're very likely to drop sun-java6-* from the software
selection and to replace it with openjdk. We're planning to do so in the
upcoming LMDE RC release and unless we identify new elements from user
feedback, we'll be likely to do so in all releases going forward.
We won't force the removal of sun-java6 from people's machine but as
soon as the decision was taken and we're sure 100% this is the direction
we'll take, we'll let people know with an official announcement,
explaining why we're doing this, and the options available to them.
Although we probably won't be using the scripts to download/install
Oracle Java ourselves (there's more and more available, some very well
done) these will come handy to users of Java apps/applets for which
support in OpenJDK just isn't good enough, and for developers of course.
For this reason we'll likely add one of these scripts to our
repositories and make it easier for people to switch from OpenJDK to
Oracle Java may they wish to do so.
Note: One of the key elements for us in deciding whether to go for
openjdk or sun-java6 is the position of Oracle itself... even more so
than the licensing terms.
** Changed in: linuxmint
Status: Confirmed => In Progress
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