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> This could be the start of fragmenting the ecosystem all over again.

Absolutely not. The OpenJDK is the official reference implementation, and Oracle has open sourced everything important.

The only question is how quickly the various OpenJDK packagers will provide security updates. The Red Hat option looks very practical if you're a Red Hat user.

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So various packagers making different choices about which updates get backported, and when, is absolutely not fragmentation?

I'm curious how each packager is going to decide what version numbers they use for backported builds.

Do you believe that the Linux Kernel is fragmented? That's exactly what different distros do to the kernel.

It's definitely has created distro hell. I feel like a huge reason Linux can't get more desktop share is because we don't combine our effort and a lot of duplicate work is done between the distros. It's inefficient. There are things like flatpak now though...

I think your comment has little to do with the fragmentation of the Linux kernel (which the GP was referring to), and more with the ecosystem around it.

Yes, it's fragmented, especially in the mobile and dev board spaces. That feels different than not knowing if two Java 11.1.2.3.4 builds are the same thing.

> Do you believe that the Linux Kernel is fragmented?

I do.

Fragmentation of this sort has always been a major goal of Java.

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