This article is a quick guide for Ubuntu Linux users installing Java 11, the current long-term support (LTS) Java version. I’ll briefly make the case for migrating your code base to Java 11 ...

Base Ubuntu installations do not come with Java; if you’d like to install a particular JDK, say Oracle’s JDK 7, you can leverage ubuntu-equip, which is a series of Bash scripts that install ...

Mark Shuttleworth (founder of Ubuntu) and Ian Murdock (founder of Debian, now at Sun) have joined forces to bring a complete, production quality Java stack and developer tools to the latest ...

I just made a mildly unpleasant discovery about Ubuntu Lucid Beta 2. It's late (or early, depending on how you look at it), I'm tired, and I'm not sure that this actually affects many people.

Canonical's Linux software will include Sun's Glassfish for running Java programs on servers.

Canonical has announced that OpenJDK 11 has become the default Java package on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, replacing OpenJDK 10. The move comes days after Red Hat announced its stewardship of OpenJDK 11.