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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.
Your cd drive is dead? get a 16x dual-layer dvd burner they are cheep like 39.99 from newegg.com
cant you mount the iso and install it from the hdd(on a different partition)? I never tried it, just wondering if its possible...
I don't think so.
My 40GB hard drive is split as follows:
/dev/hda1 (21GB) Windows XP--NTFS
/dev/hda2 (1GB) Linux Swap Type 82
/dev/hda3 (15.25GB) Linux Native Type 83--ReiserFS
I've got about 60% usage on both partitions. Five Suse CD's are a little over 3GB, which would strain the Windows system.
40gb HDD? what are you using a laptop?
That's what I'm looking at, but my summer job doesn't start for a couple more weeks.
I have a Yamaha CRW3200 series hooked up via USB. I can read in Linux and burn as root with K3B--however, ISO images often end up unusuable.
The BIOS only recognizes the internal drive as bootable. And I don't know how to safely add the external to the BIOS so I can boot off of it.
Desktop. It's a two year old eMachines I bought off my folks.
I am trying a lot of stuff and it seems faster than anything I have tried....excellent fonts and decent packages..
I might be able to do a system upgrade via YaST repository--though I haven't had much time to look into it.
That would be more or less the same thing--except I have an existing Suse system...
I'd prefer to be able to run the CD's because if I have to use Darik's Boot and Nuke, the CDs can enable me to do a quick, clean install.
I saw that and it looked interesting... :) so many distros sheesh... we have to many choices! lol
yea, getting an internal cd drive would be the best bet. my NEC dual layer dvd burner works fine in linux. able to burn iso's and all that... that burning program is weird and the sound it plays when its done scares the cr@p out of me all the
time. :)
It's Slackware based and damn good...
Film Gimp is now Cinepaint, and is due to be updated to the Glasgow edition for Windows any time now. But the latest Linux version is still available for download at http://www.cinepaint.org/
For Windows users who just can't wait for Glasgow, Jahshaka is a terrific stopgap piece of freeware. Comparable to a combination of Premiere and After Effects, its available at http://www.jahshaka.org/
Yada yada yada, I'm on dialup, and I couldn't find any retail copies locally, so I went to Redhat.com to order the
latest Fedora. The vendors listed had all sorts of distros - Ubuntu, SUSE, etc. I thought about it, and ordered Fedora
on CDs. I think it may have been a $1 more than the DVD, but the CDs will give added flexibility for the near term,
until I'm forced to replace the remaining CD drives.
I like Mepis 6.. I tried mandriva and didnt like it at all right from the get go. so im back to Mepis... this has to be the easiest distro.
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More Linux fragmentation. Funny watching you guys admit a lot of it is junk after you downloaded it. I'm sure someone is counting all those copies that were thrown in the trash as currently in use though.
LOL you guys are too busy fighting amongst yourselves to ever climb that mountain. Ask Dell why he still won't sell Linux on home desktops.
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