Andrew Hughes

#java / #OpenJDK developer, #OpenJDK 8u & 17u, #IcedTea & #GNUClasspath maintainer @ #RedHat.
All views are my own.
IRC: gnu_andrew on OFTC & Libera Chat

[Andrew Hughes @gnu_andrew_java]

I just posted "OpenJDK July 2023 Releases" on Reddit

https://t.co/CW0dO7EVf2

[Andrew Hughes @gnu_andrew_java]

@FireBurn https://t.co/ViA6dFJzrj is the best I can suggest, or maybe against a distro package if you're using one. The former ends up in the OpenJDK bug database, but only after Oracle triaging

[Andrew Hughes @gnu_andrew_java]

@FireBurn Is 17.0.8 working any better? The only one that springs to mind is JDK-8307683 (https://t.co/q6En1aUh5n), though that was a JVM crash and the fix causing them was reverted in 17.0.8.

[Joshua Bloch @joshbloch]

I think that we should all refer to this hellsite as "the platform formerly known as Twitter."

[Andrew Hughes @gnu_andrew_java]

#IcedTea 3.27.0, containing #OpenJDK 8u372 and the latest #Shenandoah, #AArch64 and #AArch32 ports for 8u was released on 2023-04-28 https://t.co/A09M1k2QSb #OpenJDK #Java

[Andrew Hughes @gnu_andrew_java]

#OpenJDK 17.0.7 was released on 2023-04-18: https://t.co/K3iPaTGjUu with the April 2023 #security fixes. Thanks to all those who contributed. #java #openjdk

[Andrew Hughes @gnu_andrew_java]

#OpenJDK 11.0.19 was released on 2023-04-18: https://t.co/NE5aR90rnu with the April 2023 #security fixes. Thanks to all those who contributed. #java #openjdk

[Andrew Hughes @gnu_andrew_java]

#OpenJDK 8u372 was released on 2022-04-18; https://t.co/RP9NGJToa2 with the April 2023 #security fixes. Thanks to all those who contributed. #java #openjdk

[Andrew Hughes @gnu_andrew_java]

@tstuefe @gunnarmorling With help from the OpenJDK community.
The whole thing was rewritten from scratch for OpenJDK 8. The original one had to be passed everything via make variables.
It's one of the reasons we maintained our IcedTea autoconf wrapper around it for so long.

[Andrew Hughes @gnu_andrew_java]

@fightin_fitness @AndrewHaley13 @iambrianjones Yes, and the reaction of most websites to the law was to expose as much of the gory details as possible, so people would be inclined to just click 'Accept All' and keep the status quo.
A few sites do a better job, but not very many. Usually the ones you'd kind of trust anyway.

[Andrew Hughes @gnu_andrew_java]

@speakjava @edfenergy First time I've heard that. I had both replaced with British Gas early on. Both gave out readings to start with, then one seem to give up. After two engineer visits, we rolled back to older meters & manual readings.

[Andrew Hughes @gnu_andrew_java]

#OpenJDK 11.0.18 was released on 2023-01-17: https://t.co/pJZNmPkvII with the January 2023 #security fixes. Thanks to all those who contributed. #java #openjdk

[Andrew Hughes @gnu_andrew_java]

#OpenJDK 8u362 was released on 2022-01-17: https://t.co/35HwBuhC5c with the January 2023 #security fixes. Thanks to all those who contributed. #java #openjdk

[Andrew Hughes @gnu_andrew_java]

@epicpizzas @TheJackForge I suspect there's a bit of both. Plus gaming has changed a lot over the years. It's a much more social activity than it used to be.

[Andrew Hughes @gnu_andrew_java]

@epicpizzas @TheJackForge You could say that about a lot of things. Depends if you want to actually enjoy your life.

[Andrew Hughes @gnu_andrew_java]

@barryroodt @erichhugo @TheJackForge Can't upgrade them either, can you?

[Andrew Hughes @gnu_andrew_java]

@arlomagnini @muchirajunior @epicpizzas @TheJackForge No, the opposite. Doesn't need hand holding from some bloated software.

[Andrew Hughes @gnu_andrew_java]

@kjjaeger @TheJackForge Plenty of games on Android & Steam for Linux these days.

[Andrew Hughes @gnu_andrew_java]

Linux: Everything
Windows & MacOS are for if you want to see an old OS desperately trying to become a POSIX OS, but still failing badly.
And you have to buy specialist hardware for MacOS. Change a graphics card and it gets confused, poor thing. 😆

[Andrew Hughes @gnu_andrew_java]

@borland @stufox @TheJackForge Windows, to be fair, has to deal with all manner of commodity hardware, though to a lesser extent than Linux.
MacOS has to handle a small set of hardware used in Macs and apparently still can't even manage that.