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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/16/26 7:55 PM, B. Watson wrote:</div>
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cite="mid:86c9ac0-2a4f-1183-f837-1e23c9fc7947@slackware.uk">
On Sun, 16 Aug 2026, David Chmelik wrote: <br>
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<blockquote type="cite">Except jdk SlackBuild hasn't been
updated since 2024; now 80 minor versions behind jdk8u501 and
no longer needs login to download (outdated README). I don't
know why
<br>
java.com links one this old, or what depends on it, but if
SlackBuilds.org has builds depending on it, they may want
update.
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<br>
By policy, nothing on SBo depends jdk or any of the other Oracle
<br>
jdk's. We settled on the various zulu-openjdk* as the dependency
for <br>
anything that requires Java.<br>
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Good.<br>
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cite="mid:86c9ac0-2a4f-1183-f837-1e23c9fc7947@slackware.uk">
This policy came into existence precisely because of the Oracle
<br>
"no direct download link; must register" policy. None of the
admins <br>
wanted the hassle of registering with Oracle, and to 100% comply
<br>
with their license, we each would have had to have a separate
login <br>
(due to their "no redistribution"; I couldn't download it and
give a <br>
copy to Willy, for instance). And even if you registered, there
was no <br>
direct download link, you'd *have* to use a JS-capable browser
(hard <br>
to automate, more hassle).<br>
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yes. It had also been possible to get elsewhere, even some sites
that had it legally, such as Adobe, but Oracle made a serious
mistake if they want a lot of people to use this.<br>
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cite="mid:86c9ac0-2a4f-1183-f837-1e23c9fc7947@slackware.uk">If
Oracle's gotten rid of this [...]</blockquote>
I was mistaken.<br>
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On 8/16/26 8:16 PM, Willy Sudiarto Raharjo wrote:
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/16/26 8:16 PM, Willy Sudiarto
Raharjo wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="" class="moz-quote-pre">Except jdk SlackBuild hasn't been updated since 2024; now 80 minor
versions behind jdk8u501 and no longer needs login to download
(outdated README). I don't know why java.com links one this old, or
what depends on it, but if SlackBuilds.org has builds depending on
it, they may want update.
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<pre wrap="" class="moz-quote-pre">You still need to login to download
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<pre wrap="" class="moz-quote-pre">You don't on java.com.
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<pre wrap="" class="moz-quote-pre">That's JRE, not JDK</pre>
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I stand corrected.</div>
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