From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 11/29/2025 9:00 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On Sat, 29 Nov 2025 16:33:05 -0800, Mike Easter wrote:   
   >   
   >> ... and Oracle Java 24 (of all things :-)   
   >   
   > Perhaps a clue as to their target audience ...   
   >   
      
   Would that target audience be a clown circus ?   
   Be more specific.   
      
   Java used to work, you could kinda stumble around   
   the version dungeon and snag something you could make   
   work, but what exactly would Java 24 work with today ?   
      
   Probably only LibreOffice (and as an option, not a hard requirement).   
      
   I don't think I've run a Java here for anything, since   
   about version 8 or so. And I'm just guessing here, as it's   
   been too many years to remember the versioning details.   
      
   I fondly remember on one occasion, installing Java and   
   doing a reboot. And as the system came up, (something) started   
   executing on the machine and scared the shit out of me.   
   This was a program I'd installed two years earlier, which   
   had a Java dependency, and I'd never installed Java for it.   
   And the installer wakes up immediately and tries to finish   
   the install. That's a reminder of what Java is good for.   
   Jack-In-The-Box :-)   
      
      Paul   
      
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