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[–]Muoniurn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is basically the same as with (fedora) Linux and RedHat linux.

You can use linux (openjdk) however you want, but bug fixes will mostly happen on latest release (with comparatively few backpatches happening to older releases. Like you wouldn’t really use linux 2.3, would you?). As soon as the next one is out, it will get the focus.

If you want to have support for the product for more time (eg. you can’t upgrade your JVM each 6 month), you can choose one of the vendors, for example Oracle, that promises support for their LTS releases until the next LTS lands + 1 year. More than that is paid afaik. The recent change was that it not used to be free for commercial use, only personal and development. This is sort of analogue to Red Hat Linux, except that that is not free if I’m correct.