Posted on 05/17/2006 9:19:50 PM PDT by AllmanBrosFan
Sun Microsystems plans to offer support for the Ubuntu server Linux distribution on its T1 server line, the company said at the JavaOne industry conference in San Francisco.
"We will be aggressively supporting the fork that Ubuntu has been doing," Sun chief executive Jonathan Schwartz said at the conference. "The ideals of that community are relatively familiar to us."
The Ubuntu Linux distribution is based on Debian. The operating system currently provides only a desktop version that has a strong following among software developers. A first server system is scheduled for release on 1 June.
The distribution is sponsored by Canonical, which offers commercial support for the application.
Sun's T1 servers use the company's Niagara multi-core processor. The systems were launched last December and are currently certified for Solaris only.
Sun's support is a major win for Ubuntu as it aspires to become one of the world's main Linux distributions.
Its creators seek to differentiate the offering from Red Hat and SuSE by providing support as an optional service for a limited number of systems, rather than bundling support automatically with the software.
Sun hopes that supporting the operating system will expose its hardware to a new group of users. A company spokesman denied that the support was aimed as a move against Red Hat and SuSE.
ROFL! Their supposed "support" is problably nothing more than keeping those old pages online at redhat.com.
Wasn't RH9 ages ago? 8^)
The only person who's been caught red-handed with BS is you, sir.
LOL, you still haven't admitted Dell used to ship Linux on their home desktops, then stopped since they didn't sell. Nor have you mumbled anything since I showed American made Solaris having equal or better performance and features, yet you still choose the foreign product. The record is clear, to anyone outside your cult.
Somehow, I think their support goes beyond not deleting old webpages. There's a community effort available, and as other posters have mentioned, RH does support these community efforts.
However, because RH9 and earlier are ancient versions--they're not going to continually produce patches, software, updates, etc. for years on end like MS does.
Also, it's interesting, because Fedora is often the testing and smoothing-over ground for technologies that RH is considering including in its Enterprise editions.
Unfortunately, I've had more important things to take care of this morning...
But you were busted by several other posters for posting absolute bunk on Solaris v. Linux.
Finally, what part of Naked Computer Program do you not understand...
But of course you have no proof, nor do you hardly ever.
because RH9 and earlier are ancient versions
LOL, RH9 came out in 2003. MS still provides security patches for Win2000, even though newbi3 may try to tell you they don't.
There's a support community sponsored by RH. From what I can tell, they no longer provide direct support, but it's available from other users and the Internet...
Not to mention there are five versions of Fedora that came out after RH9...
Like I already said, countless times, that's not the vendor, its some mysterious "community" that probably includes hackers from Russia and China and is not a reliable source. Just because you're foolish enough to trust it doesn't mean others should. Probably why the turtle didn't even load the crap from there, and went 3 years without applying anything.
The vendor supports them. That's what you're missing.
Consider Slackware. To my knowledge, Pat Volkerding & Slackware do not provide direct support for Slackware 8 and 9. I don't think you can email or call support and request help for Slack 8...
However, there are countless books, forums, community groups that are sanctioned and supported by Slackware where you can find such help.
RH and most of the other Linux vendors work in more or less the same way supportwise.
I'm not missing anything, including watching you talk in circles once again. What you're obviously missing is any understanding of the industry, or the reasons why Red Hat dropped support for RH9, being their lack of income on a product they were supporting, which obviously hasn't changed.
Get back to class, get your degree, go into the real world and work on something for a few years, then come back here and post on something you might know something about. Till then you're just wasting everyone's time with your wild uninformed guesses stated as fact.
Er, no.
Are you really this ignorant?
For you, Linux = DNC = Chinese Communism. And that's all you care to know...
No, I simply point out the DNC and PRC have both standardized on Linux, along with most every other leftist/communist entity on earth. The only one who's ignorant are those that attempt to deny it.
You're the
How can we tell? You always link to Democratic and Chinese sites, and you quote Stallman far more often than any of us combined.
And you know this how?
That is because NT4 knew how to reboot itself at least once a week, sometimes even when not under load. There was nothing to patch because we were not running any processes except for SSH and the database engine and kernel was rock solid for us (obviously).
What is it that you think we should have been patching that we weren't patching? Be specific please.
Solaris also has a relatively crappy userland and poor hardware support including a lack of a lot of very high-end networking hardware, so there are also compelling reasons to not use Solaris and to use Linux. Which one is best depends very much on what you want to do and other IT considerations (like if you have decent Solaris admins).
No, the undeniable point is, you don't run systems online after vulnerabilities are found without applying patches from the vendor. Just because you were still online doesn't mean you weren't hacked LMAO. And while I wouldn't dare run any of this software that came from "fedora legacy community" (who knows where), this is probably a halfway decent list of the vulnerabilities on your server over the last couple of years that went unpatched. I'd get canned if I pulled some BS like that. Yet you wonder what's wrong LOL!
2004-06-02 FLSA:1620 Updated cvs resolves security vulnerabilities.
2004-07-19 FLSA:1553 Updated sysklogd resolves memory buffer bug.
2004-07-19 FLSA:1553 Updated sysklogd resolves memory buffer bug reissue to fix url .
2004-07-19 FLSA:1734 Updated mailman resolves security vulnerability.
2004-07-19 FLSA:1734 Updated mailman resolves security vulnerability reissue to fix url .
2004-09-29 FLSA:1468 Updated tcpdump packages that fix multiple security vulnerabilities.
2004-09-29 FLSA:1552 Updated cadaver packages that fix security vulnerabilities.
2004-09-30 FLSA:1581 Updated flim packages fix security vulnerability.
2004-09-30 FLSA:1840 Updated Ethereal packages fix security issues.
2004-09-30 FLSA:2003 Updated rsync package fixes security issues.
2004-10-02 FLSA:1733 Updated squirrelmail resolves security vulnerabilities.
2004-10-07 FLSA:1735 Updated cvs packages fix security vulnerabilities.
2004-10-07 FLSA:1868 Updated php packages fix security issues.
2004-10-08 FLSA:1257 Updated netpbm packages fix security vulnerabilities.
2004-10-09 FLSA:2068 Updated httpd packages fix security issues.
2004-10-13 FLSA:1833 Updated lha resolves security vulnerabilities.
2004-10-13 FLSA:2102 Updated samba packages fix security vulnerability.
2004-10-14 FLSA:2102 Updated samba packages fix security vulnerability updated .
2004-10-16 FLSA:1237 Updated gaim package resolves security issues.
2004-10-16 FLSA:2072 Updated CUPS packages fix security vulnerability.
2004-10-18 FLSA:1804 Updated kernel resolves security vulnerabilities.
2004-10-23 FLSA:1719 Updated Tripwire packages fix security flaw.
2004-10-27 FLSA:2089 Updated mozilla packages fix security vulnerabilities.
2004-12-03 FLSA:2148 Updated httpd apache and mod ssl packages fix security issues.
2005-02-01 FLSA:2255 Updated zip package fixes security issue.
2005-02-01 FLSA:2272 Updated unarj package fixes security issue.
2005-02-08 FLSA:1906 Updated abiword packages fix security issue.
2005-02-08 FLSA:1943 Updated libpng resolves security vulnerabilities.
2005-02-10 FLSA:2188 Updated gaim package resolves security issues.
2005-02-10 FLSA:2252 Updated iptables packages resolve security issues.
2005-02-10 FLSA:2352 Updated Xpdf package fixes security issues.
2005-02-17 FLSA:2137 Updated cyrus sasl resolves security vulnerabilities.
2005-02-20 FLSA:1944 GNOME VFS updates address extfs vulnerability.
2005-02-20 FLSA:1945 Updated sox packages fix buffer overflows.
2005-02-20 FLSA:2058 Updated cdrtools packages fix a security issue.
2005-02-23 FLSA:2005 Updated gdk pixbuf packages fix security flaws.
2005-02-23 FLSA:2343 Updated vim packages fix security issues.
2005-02-24 FLSA:2336 Updated kernel packages fix security issues.
2005-03-01 FLSA:2314 Updated XFree86 packages fix security flaws.
2005-03-02 FLSA:2127 Updated CUPS packages fix security vulnerabilities.
2005-03-07 FLSA:1748 Updated subversion packages fix security issues.
2005-03-07 FLSA:2344 Updated php packages fix security issues.
2005-03-07 FLSA:2404 Updated less package fixes security issue.
2005-03-09 FLSA:2344 Updated Updated php packages fix security issues.
2005-03-24 FLSA:2129 Updated mysql packages fix security issues.
2005-03-24 FLSA:2155 Updated sharutils package fixes security issues.
2005-05-12 FLSA:152763 Updated qt packages fixes security issues.
2005-05-12 FLSA:152768 Updated ruby package fixes security issues.
2005-05-12 FLSA:152804 Updated openmotif packages fix image vulnerability.
2005-05-12 FLSA:152856 Updated sudo packages fix security issue.
2005-05-12 FLSA:152871 Updated nfs utils package fixes security issue.
2005-05-12 FLSA:152912 Updated imap packages fix security issues.
2005-05-12 FLSA:154988 Updated openoffice org packages fix security issues.
2005-05-12 FLSA:155508 Updated cvs package fixes security issues.
2005-05-18 FLSA:152771 Updated pam packages fix security issue.
2005-05-18 FLSA:152815 Updated libtiff packages fix security issues.
2005-05-18 FLSA:152883 Updated mozilla packages fix security issues.
2005-06-04 FLSA:152532 Updated kernel packages fix security issues.
2005-07-10 FLSA:152895 Updated mailman package fixes security issue.
2005-07-10 FLSA:152908 Updated gftp package fixes security issue.
2005-07-10 FLSA:154991 Updated sharutils package fixes security issue.
2005-07-10 FLSA:155505 Updated php packages fix security issues.
2005-07-11 FLSA:123014 Updated openssh packages fix a security issue.
2005-07-11 FLSA:152583 Updated telnet packages fix security issues.
2005-07-12 FLSA:152777 Updated ImageMagick packages fix security issues.
2005-07-15 FLSA:152769 Updated kdelibs kdebase packages fix security issues.
2005-07-15 FLSA:152838 Updated gd packages fix security issues.
2005-07-15 FLSA:152841 Updated openssl packages fix security issues.
2005-07-15 FLSA:152874 Updated samba packages fix security issues.
2005-07-15 FLSA:152891 Updated cpio package fixes security issue.
2005-07-15 FLSA:152917 Updated curl packages fix a security issue.
2005-07-15 FLSA:152925 Updated mysql packages fix security issues.
2005-07-15 FLSA:154272 Updated gdk pixbuf packages fix a security issue.
2005-07-15 FLSA:158149 Updated mozilla packages fix security issues.
2005-07-16 FLSA:152844 Updated PostgreSQL packages fix security issues.
2005-07-16 FLSA:152900 Updated squirrelmail package fixes security issue.
2005-07-24 FLSA:152842 Updated lvm package fixes security issue.
2005-07-24 FLSA:154276 Updated krb5 packages fix security issues.
2005-08-10 FLSA:152889 Updated mc packages fix security issues.
2005-08-10 FLSA:157696 Updated gzip package fixes security issues.
2005-08-10 FLSA:157701 Updated Apache httpd packages fix security issues.
2005-09-14 FLSA:160202 Updated mozilla packages fix security issues.
2005-09-14 FLSA:163047 Updated squirrelmail package fixes security issues.
2005-09-14 FLSA:163274 Updated CUPS packages fix security issue.
2005-09-15 FLSA:152919 Updated grip package fixes security issue.
2005-11-09 FLSA:166941 Updated httpd and mod ssl packages fix two security issues.
2005-11-13 FLSA:152848 Updated glibc packages fix security issues.
2005-11-14 FLSA:152794 Updated rp pppoe package fixes security issue.
2005-11-14 FLSA:158801 Updated bzip2 packages fix security issues.
2005-11-28 FLSA:166943 Updated php packages fix security issues.
2005-12-02 FLSA:166943 Updated Updated php packages fix security issues.
2005-12-17 FLSA:152787 Updated redhat config nfs package fixes security issue.
2005-12-17 FLSA:152832 Updated lynx package fixes security issues.
2005-12-17 FLSA:152870 Updated a2ps package fixes security issue.
2005-12-17 FLSA:152892 Updated enscript package fixes security issues.
2005-12-17 FLSA:155510 Updated gtk2 packages fixes security issues.
2005-12-17 FLSA:166939 Updated openssl packages fix security issues.
2005-12-18 FLSA:168326 Updated util linux and mount packages fix security issue.
2006-01-09 FLSA:152803 Updated lesstif packages fix security issues.
2006-01-09 FLSA:136323 Updated gettext package fixes security issues.
2006-01-09 FLSA:152803 Updated lesstif packages fix security issues.
2006-01-09 FLSA:152907 Updated htdig packages fix security issues.
2006-01-09 FLSA:152922 Updated ethereal packages fix security issues.
2006-01-09 FLSA:168375 Updated mozilla packages fix security issues.
2006-01-10 FLSA:167803 Updated mysql packages fix security issues.
2006-01-24 FLSA:152845 Updated perl packages fix security issues.
2006-02-18 FLSA:152809 Updated squid package fixes security issues.
2006-02-18 FLSA:168935 Updated openssh packages fix security issues.
2006-02-18 FLSA:175406 Updated Apache httpd packages fix security issues.
2006-02-23 FLSA:162750 Updated sudo packages fix security issue.
2006-02-23 FLSA:180036-1 Updated mozilla packages fix security issues.
2006-02-25 FLSA:138098 Updated nfs-utils package fixes security issues.
2006-02-25 FLSA:158543 Updated gaim package fixes security issues.
2006-02-25 FLSA:176731 Updated perl packages fix security issue.
2006-02-27 FLSA:157366 Updated PostgreSQL packages fix security issues.
2006-03-01 FLSA:178989 Updated perl-DBI package fixes security issue.
2006-03-07 FLSA:168264-1 Updated XFree86 packages fix security issues.
2006-03-07 FLSA:168516 Updated pcre packages fix a security issue.
2006-03-16 FLSA:157459-1 Updated kernel packages fix security issues.
2006-03-16 FLSA:173274 Updated gdk-pixbuf packages fix security issues.
2006-03-16 FLSA:174479 Updated libungif packages fix security issues.
2006-03-16 FLSA:175404 Updated xpdf package fixes security issues.
2006-03-16 FLSA:178606 Updated kdelibs packages fix security issues.
2006-03-23 FLSA:186277 Updated sendmail packages fix security issues.
2006-04-04 FLSA:152896 Updated mod python package fixes a security issue.
2006-04-04 FLSA:156139 Updated tcpdump packages fix security issues.
2006-04-04 FLSA:170411 Updated imap packages fix security issue.
2006-04-04 FLSA:180159 Updated unzip package fixes security issue.
2006-04-04 FLSA:183571-1 Updated tar package fixes security issue.
2006-04-04 FLSA:184074 Updated pine package fixes security issue.
2006-04-04 FLSA:186277 [Updated] Updated sendmail packages fix security issue. AM EDT
"Long time Linux guru Bob Tallman said, "This is great for the open source movement. I have 7 different versions installed on my computer at home. Some guys I know have over 30.""
That's pretty geeky. They must be Democrats. They can't make up their minds. Linux is fun to play with.
Here's a market to consider:
My co-workers dump 3 to 5 computers a month on my doorstep with virus so bad they have to be nuked. Their kids cannot stop clicking on that stuff. I wonder if a basic setup with OpenOffice and Firefox would sell to them. It cost under $250 and would work with wired home systems. Then the kids could be banned from the parents' computers.
Mac is a poor choice because of price, but a WallyWorld online special should do the job nicely.
As usual, you don't read or can't comprehend. KProbes is the heavy lifter, not as usable as DTrace. SystemTap is for the usability.
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