Ubuntu will soon remove Oracle JRE from user's systems

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Just in case you didn’t take my post here too seriously on moving to OpenJDK for future releases, I have been reading the last few days that Canonical is going to be removing not only the Sun/Oracle JRE from all of their official Ubuntu repositories, but also from people’s systems too. This affects 11.04 and earlier considering that sun-java6 isn’t available for 11.10 and above:

Source 1: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/12/java-to-be-removed-from-ubuntu-uninstalled-fr om-user-machines/

Source 2: http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Canonical-to-remove-Oracle-s-Sun-Java-fro m-users-systems-1396528.html

Source 3: http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/25261-ubuntu-kills-java

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Removing? So if i had installed Oracle java via Synaptic, manually, they will unisntall it automatically and silently? Ubuntu starts to look like MS…

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I don’t get it - at least the browser plugin is something useless and should be disabled. There are only a few sites which require a java plugin to work properly and it has too much security issues.