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by contrarian1234 776 days ago
Except now a days you're not encouraged to run a system-wide JVM!

You can still download a JVM for Java 21, but it's from weird third parties like Adoptium
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EdwardDiego 776 days ago
Adoptium is a JVM from the Eclipse Foundation. They're hardly weird, even if the branding is. It's basically "people into JVMs not controlled or licenced by Oracle that work good".

https://www.eclipse.org/membership/explore-membership/

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pjmlp 776 days ago
Almost correct, except the part that it is a bit like saying Red-Hat is a Linux not controlled by Linus.

https://devclass.com/2023/03/22/despite-openjdk-70-of-java-f...

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contrarian1234 776 days ago
I never realized it was from Eclipse! They've cleaned up the webpage where it's a bit more clear now. I always figured it was a weird consultancy or something like Gluon - where there was a paid product when you dig a little

Thanks for clearing it up. Hope they rebrand and drop the Adoptium name eventually

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arjvik 776 days ago
It used to be called AdoptOpenJDK, and was a project that essentially just provided prebuilt binaries of OpenJDK.

But post several Oracle changes that I admittedly have not kept up with, they have grown in scope and also been forced to remove OpenJDK from their name. They went with Adoptium, to keep the Adopt part that got them famous.

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brabel 776 days ago
That's bullshit.

Here are the JDK distributions supported by SDKMAN, a really good JVM-oriented package manager: https://sdkman.io/jdks

There's a couple of dozen vendors in there , including very weird ones like IBM, Microsoft, AWS, Azul, Eclipse, SAP, Redd Hat, and even... Oracle!

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