From a site in my country I read this news, which I share with you:
Not a long time ago Oracle closed the license which allowed third parties to distribute their Java compiles freely.
Java packages for Ubuntu are found with the names sun-java6- *. The closure of Oracle caused for the Ubuntu case that the last version they had of the JDK was moved to their partner repos, but from that moment, August-2011, they couldn't update the java version in their repos anymore.
It turns out that Oracle recently announced a number of serious Java vulnerabilities, which are being exploited very frequently these days by attackers, and these critical problems are present in the version of Java that is in the Ubuntu repositories in the packages sun-java6. But since Canonical cannot legally publish the updates of those packages and due to its interest in protecting the security of its users, it has decided to remove these packages from its repos forever, leaving it to the user the alternative of using the openjdk, the free Java version.
Consequently Canonical will place empty sun-java6 packages in the Ubuntu repos, which will cause users when upgrading to lose the version of Oracle Java they had previously installedFor this reason, they should go as soon as possible to the OpenJDK that is in the Ubuntu repos. It is not yet known by what date it will occur but it is a change that will occur very soon.
My advice is to use OpenJDK and in case you depend exclusively on Oracle binaries then download them from their official site.
Canonical's announcement can be read at this link. Anyway I leave them verbatim:
The Canonical partner archive currently contains Oracle's Sun Java JDK packages (sun-java6) for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Ubuntu 10.10 and Ubuntu 11.04. As of August 24th 2011, we no longer have permission to redistribute new Java packages as Oracle has retired the “Operating System Distributor License for Java” [1] [2]. Oracle has published an advisory about security issues in the version of Java we currently have in the partner archive [3]. Some of these issues are currently being exploited in the wild. Due to the severity of the security risk, Canonical is immediately releasing a security update for the Sun JDK browser plugin which will disable the plugin on all machines. This will mitigate users' risk from malicious websites exploiting the vulnerable version of the Sun JDK. In the near future (exact date TBD), Canonical will remove all Sun JDK packages from the Partner archive. This will be accomplished by pushing empty packages to the archive, so that the Sun JDK will be removed from all users machines when they do a software update. Users of these packages who have not migrated to an alternative solution will experience failures after the package updates have removed Oracle Java from the system. If you are currently using the Oracle Java packages from the partner archive, you have two options: 1- Install the OpenJDK packages that are provided in the main Ubuntu archive. (icedtea6-plugin for the browser plugin, openjdk-6-jdk or openjdk-6-jre for the virtual machine) 2- Manually install Oracle's Java software from their web site [4]. For more information, please consult the wiki page on the subject [5]. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and thank you for your understanding. [1] - http://jdk-distros.java.net/ [2] - http://robilad.livejournal.com/90792.html [3] - http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/javacpuoct2011-443431.html [4] - http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html [5] - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucidLynx/ReleaseNotes/Java6Transition
Source: humans
It was to be expected with the destructive attitude that Oracle has towards free software.
I set myself as a task to see how PostgreSQL is, I don't know ... but MySQL I see it as being in danger too.
That MySQL belongs to Oracle is something that makes my hair stand on end ¬_¬
regards
There is also MariaDB, which, according to what I have read, has advanced a lot.
I like PostgreSQL but if you come from MySQL the closest thing there is (and also fully compatible, it is a letter by letter fork) is MariaDB.
That is something that was seen coming from openoffice, Oracle's pseudo-restrictive tactic is revealed.
I think Mysql will follow the same steps, an alternative can be PostgreSQL or the free version of Mysql developed by its own creator MariaDB.
http://mariadb.org/
PostgresQL is much better than mysql. Whenever you want I help you with whatever you need cybercol@gmail.com
I use openjdk in debian and without problems, and for web applications a plugin called icedtea, all free in my debian 100% free
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Greetings.
Like nonamed, all good under the Debian sun ...
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Canonical's attitude seems arbitrary, very Mac-like. But I support them since Java is not free now and Open JDK is already very competent. I still think that Canonical makes very private decisions, but we must rescue the fact that they have advised in luxury and detail what they intend to do and how they will do it, given the alternatives for use and being transparent (as far as we know). They only lacked the detail of when.
I think that either you have not read the news correctly, or you have not understood it:
"Oracle has closed the license that allowed third parties to distribute their Java compiles freely"
When upgrading to version 7 on win32, there was no upgrade on ubuntu. I had to download the jdk 7 from the Oracle page and that is the one I use, I just found out that there is openjdk 7.
Well, it doesn't seem right to me that they have closed the code, but it seems worse to me that Uncle Mark and his henchmen force us to remove one program and use another because it is put in the tricks
Those are the right decisions in my opinion, due to the security problems that Java presents, given the robust and secure nature of GNU / Linux.
Now that doesn't mean that you can't download the binary and compile it ... or that someone does it and make a PPA.
The only thing is that you cannot install it with a simple apt-get install or aptitude install
Man is that with you it does not look good in any way ... if they did this, because they force you, in case they had not made this decision, you were going to complain because: «Uncle Mark includes software in the repos, proprietary software and for to top it off does not put updates »… come on LOL !!!
The good thing about all this is that if so, OpenJDK will have an important development in the near future 🙂
At last, it had been coming for so long, it seemed like it would never happen.
Let's see, right now openjdk becomes the official product and oracle is dedicating more to that development, it is not for anyone else that oracle has stopped distributing the jre XD ..
Can anyone offer a guide to remove sunJDK and install openJDK?