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It's really nothing at all like the XP situation was in the Vista days. XP stuck around for years after its LTS replacement was being distributed. Java 11, on t
by rcoveson 8y ago
It's really nothing at all like the XP situation was in the Vista days. XP stuck around for years after its LTS replacement was being distributed. Java 11, on the other hand, only made it to Ubuntu 18.04 less than a month ago[1]. Java 8 is also still receiving support from a number of organizations, including Red Hat, AdoptOpenJDK (as you mention), and Canonical, I believe, until Ubuntu 20.04.
I'm all for staying current, within reason, but if I'm running Ubuntu in production, I'm gonna want to get my software as part of that distribution. As recently as March 25th, that meant my options were Java 8 or Java 10.
1: http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/o/openjdk-lts/openjdk-lts_11.0.2+9-3ubuntu1~18.04.3/changelog http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/o/openjdk-...