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[gime_tree_fiddy]

Maybe, this is a little bit off-topic.

But anyone, who tried to use JetBrains IDEs on Ubuntu, might have faced the problem uglier font rendering with OpenJDK and the fix to it is to use the JDK from Oracle.

I thought the different with OpenJDK was largely about the licensing. Anybody with some insight on it ?

[pjmlp → gime_tree_fiddy]

The closed source JDK has quite a few components that aren't the same as the OpenJDK.

For example OpenJDK 9 will get a new Java 2D render, due to the differences between the two that were in use http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/265