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