[CentOS] OpenJDK 8 on CentOS 7

Mon Dec 1 18:33:18 UTC 2014
Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com>

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com> wrote:

> Two ideas:
>
> 1. OpenJDK 8 is available as a "technology preview" for CentOS 6.6, or so
> this article claims
>
> http://news.softpedia.com/news/CentOS-6-6-Features-OpenJDK-8-Support-463730.shtml
>
> 2. Since Oracle Linux is userland-binary compatible with RHEL and CentOS,
> I think you will eventually surely get a build by Oracle for OL7 that you
> can run in your CentOS if you want.
>
> Of course #2 is only wishful thinking on my part.
>

A third one: you can bug Henri Gomez to include CentOS 7 / OL 7 into his
OBuildFactory script.

https://github.com/hgomez/obuildfactory

FC