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Add more help on getting the right Java version for OS X.
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headius committed Dec 19, 2011
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and "u2" in the future will get what you need. The .dmg provides either a self-contained
JDK for you to drop onto your system or a .pkg installer that does it for you.

*Update*: Henri Gomez, the primary guy behind openjdk-osx-build, has set up a page specifically
for the update builds. Grab the JDK or JRE from his
[OpenJDK7JDK7UOSX](http://code.google.com/p/openjdk-osx-build/wiki/OpenJDK7JDK7UOSX) page.

### \*BSD

The OS X work is based off the "bsd-port" branch of OpenJDK. There are links to Java 7 package
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Update 2 now has a small set of optimizations that make a very large difference. If you intend
to start playing with JRuby 1.7 builds, we strongly recommend you use OpenJDK 7u2 or higher.

*Update*: Your ```jruby -v``` output should look something like this:

```
jruby 1.7.0.dev (ruby-1.8.7-p352) (2011-12-19 f404f75) (OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM 1.7.0-u2-b21) [darwin-amd64-java]
```

Getting JRuby
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