Installing Oracle JDK on Windows subsystem for Linux

Question

When trying to use the Linux version of Oracle\'s JDK on the latest Windows 10 build having support for bash, I am running into a problem with the prompt hanging whenever at

Answer 1

it may work for Insider Preview build 14905, but hangs on Windows 10 Pro build 14393. A good part of the problem is that Microsoft is using Ubuntu 14.0.4. 14.10 or later would probably better support Java 8.