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Canonical To Remove Sun Java From Repositories, Users' Machines

Posted by timothy on from the you-mean-you-keep-it-networked? dept.

New submitter an_orphan writes "Apparently, Oracle's 'Operating System Distributor License for Java' is expired, causing Ubuntu to not only remove sun-java from the partner repository, but from user's machines."

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  1. Re:Is this April first? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    In what way?
    It being a challenge for the linux dextop?
    or java being so slow that it's standard practice to build in a progress bar so people don't think the program is hanging?

  2. Re:just replace your cars water pump by dotancohen · · Score: 3, Funny

    Exactly! You already replaced your car's stock water pump with some aftermarket thing, now that's not working out so well for you. So do the right thing and replace that aftermarket water pump with an OEM part like the car came with.

    That OEM water pump wouldn't pump the water that I need, that is why I installed the aftermarket pump which happens to support _all_ water. Now, so long as I only use some water that was tested with the OEM pump I'm fine, but if I need water that was only tested on the aftermarket pump (which most water is, because the aftermarket pump works on all cars, not just geeky cars) then now I'm screwed.

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  3. Re:Not for long? by Galestar · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yeah, those MacBook Airs are just rubbish man.

    Glad you can at least admit to that... but in Apple's defense the hardware isn't rubbish, just that piece of shit OS they have on it is.

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