Tag: linux

• Always use the latest jdk version (08 Dec 2012 | Tags: development, linux)

  Sun/Oracle’s JDK 1.6 was excluded from Ubuntu repositories (the reason are security holes which would not be fixed by Oracle + license issues). Since 1.7, Ubuntu sticks to OpenJDK, which is fine, but causes troubles with my coding (yes, it should not, but it does). So, I have had to move towards Sun JDK 1.7 and try to work as I used. The drawback is that now, instead of having a nice apt-get, I had to install things manually, which I was not used to at all. When I started in linux, I used to compile everything from scratch (even...