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by nacs 2713 days ago
OpenJDK is a pretty significant rewrite of the Sun/Oracle JDK to stay open and completely GPL.

CentOS is more of a repackaging of Redhat -- the binary files are almost exactly the same there so the comparison isn't quite valid.
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lwf 2713 days ago
You're thinking of GNU Classpath, maybe?

OpenJDK is (a subset of) the Oracle JDK.

> OpenJDK is the official reference implementation of Java SE since version 7.

and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenJDK#Release_of_the_class_l...

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needusername 2713 days ago
> OpenJDK is (a subset of) the Oracle JDK.

Not anymore. With Java 11 it is entirely the same code, at least until somebody takes over maintenance of the Java 11 branch from Oracle in two months.

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