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Another aspect of the "Linux vs. FreeBSD" story is Java. I was almost won over by FreeBSD few years ago, however what keeps me back is so to speak the "second class citizenship" of the JVM on FreeBDS. Or at least it was so pre-OpenJDK 8, when I looked.

Is anyone successfully using Java on FreeBSD in production?

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Depends on what you mean by production.

I've been running Gitblit and multiple Minecraft (Spigot) worlds with Openjdk8 on FreeBSD 10 for more than a year and never had any problems (Jenkins worked fine too but I used it only for a short time).

But my userbase is only about 10 people, mostly in minecraft (to get a sense of the main world's scale: [0]), so I don't know if that qualifies :)

[0] https://world.vanwa.ch/

There was a time when you were required to accept a license using a web browser to build the port… Now you just `sudo pkg install openjdk8` or openjdk7 or openjdk6.

You can even install IntelliJ IDEA with pkg!

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