A brief history of Java as a programming language Before it became Java Java was created at Sun Microsystems, Inc. by a team of researchers led by James Gosling. The goal was to create a language that could run on consumer electronics products. A few...

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Shai Almog
Yak Barber, duck whisperer, hunter of bugs, feeder of dogs, heap climber, stack explorer and rider of shells
Personally I'm more partial to the Zulu distribution of Open JDK from Azul as it includes more variants. The differences between the released are minor though.
I would recommend checking out foojay.io (Friends of Open JDK) for a list of OpenJDK distributions.