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Sun puts its weight behind Ubuntu Linux
IT WEEK ^ | 17 May 2006 | Tom Sanders

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.


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: bestofgoldeneagle; linux; sunmicrosystems; threadjester; ubuntu; worstofiggle
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To: Golden Eagle; Poser
I'd be careful following any links from these guys, especially the flaming dude.

I know, they might even direct you to hacker sites to download OS updates! You've rightly caught them on that before, saving us from the hackers!

Wait, that was his own site, and it was just a Flash animation showing an update being done. Nevermind.

241 posted on 05/21/2006 12:34:43 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: FLAMING DEATH; Golden Eagle
Ha ha! And you post it again! The guy is going to send you a Christmas card.

GE has probable single-handedly pushed that site up the Google ranks. He may even be why it shows in I Feel Lucky.

242 posted on 05/21/2006 12:36:39 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: All

I obviously link Stallman to show those who have never seen it how radical the leftist is who's behind the Linux license. Guys like the flaming dude link it to push his philosophy, big difference.


243 posted on 05/21/2006 5:08:31 PM PDT by Golden Eagle (Buy American. While you still can.)
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To: antiRepublicrat
GE has probable single-handedly pushed that site up the Google ranks. He may even be why it shows in I Feel Lucky.

Hopefully so, everyone needs to know more about that guy before his software takes any further hold of the Unix market. He's a far left fruitcake and he's got lots of guys like you boys who don't want anyone to know.

244 posted on 05/21/2006 7:15:58 PM PDT by Golden Eagle (Buy American. While you still can.)
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To: Golden Eagle

Show where I've linked to his site for anything other than clarifying the terms of the GPL, liar.

Also, please provide evidence that the Fedora Legacy Project is unreliable.


245 posted on 05/22/2006 5:01:09 AM PDT by FLAMING DEATH
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To: Golden Eagle
Hopefully so, everyone needs to know more about that guy

I'm sure he thanks you.

before his software takes any further hold of the Unix market.

One thing that makes UNIX great is the utilities available for it. Stallman's utilities (and utilities under his license) have been helping UNIX for years and are standard on many flavors. Apple uses it extensively, the standard compiler is GCC, and emacs is always there.

246 posted on 05/22/2006 6:34:17 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: Echo Talon
I've tried Kubuntu (never cared for GNOME) as well as MEPIS, but my all-time favorite Linux distro remains Gentoo.

I am not a speed-freak to the point of trying to spend hours optimizing the compiler settings for programs. What I find attractive is Portage, which does, IMHO, a phenomenal job managing software.

247 posted on 05/22/2006 6:55:20 AM PDT by Señor Zorro ("The ability to speak does not make you intelligent"--Qui-Gon Jinn)
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To: Señor Zorro

i never tried gentoo i'll have to give it a shot sometime. :)


248 posted on 05/22/2006 1:29:44 PM PDT by Echo Talon
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To: Golden Eagle; FLAMING DEATH

Nope--the guy was trying to get the program to read in English from Latvian.

Unless you know people that speak Latvian and could translate for the guy, you have nothing to say here as usual.


249 posted on 05/22/2006 3:20:10 PM PDT by rzeznikj at stout (ASCII and ye shall receive... (Computers 3:14))
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To: Golden Eagle

True. But you link to Stallman and post his junk around more than all of us here combined.

Yet you have the nerve to call us ardent disciples of Stallman.

Do you not see the irony here?


250 posted on 05/22/2006 3:21:35 PM PDT by rzeznikj at stout (ASCII and ye shall receive... (Computers 3:14))
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To: rzeznikj at stout; Golden Eagle; FLAMING DEATH
Unless you know people that speak Latvian and could translate for the guy, you have nothing to say here as usual.

Iggle invented Latvian and those damned ***COPY LEFTISTS*** stole it and made it into a national language.
251 posted on 05/22/2006 3:21:45 PM PDT by MikefromOhio (aka MikeinIraq - Woohoo!! I'm on A List!!! yay!!!!)
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To: MikefromOhio; Irish_Thatcherite

LOL..

Don't forget cybercommunists, digital terrorists, and all the other monikers Iggle can come up with LOL 8^)

Irish~Thought you might want to check this one out firsthand...8^)


252 posted on 05/22/2006 3:29:23 PM PDT by rzeznikj at stout (ASCII and ye shall receive... (Computers 3:14))
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To: rzeznikj at stout

I detest leftists like Stallman, and provide links to show why. You guys not only prefer to use his software, but push it on others constabtly with lies. On this very thread you act like tortoise is a genius, when he doesn't even patch his server! There's the "irony" you're looking for, that security by obscurity is actually the only thing protecting him LOL.


253 posted on 05/22/2006 4:39:38 PM PDT by Golden Eagle (Buy American. While you still can.)
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To: Golden Eagle; tortoise; FLAMING DEATH; MikefromOhio

Nope--the irony is you claim that we preach Stallman's agenda, when more often than not, it's you who brings him up.

Second, show me the posts where any of us have pushed open-source software on others.

I don't know if he does or not. But at least tortoise doesn't come on the thread and post utterly vile crap on these threads--he adds to the discussion.

My guess is that your boss at MS upped your quota again...


254 posted on 05/22/2006 4:45:15 PM PDT by rzeznikj at stout (ASCII and ye shall receive... (Computers 3:14))
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To: antiRepublicrat
One thing that makes UNIX great is the utilities available for it. Stallman's utilities (and utilities under his license) have been helping UNIX for years and are standard on many flavors.

The first thing many sysadmins do on other Unix variants is install the GNU userland for Unix. Fortunately, more and more commercial Unix variants are making this readily available for their platform. The GNU unix environment is so much better now that most Unix vendors do not even try to provide a decent proprietary environment.

I wonder if GoldenEagle is using GNU components on Solaris? He probably is and doesn't even realize it.

255 posted on 05/22/2006 7:25:35 PM PDT by tortoise
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To: tortoise; Golden Eagle
I wonder if GoldenEagle is using GNU components on Solaris? He probably is and doesn't even realize it.

Probably. There is another aspect to this.

The number of developers for an OS directly contributes to the popularity and success of that OS. You've heard Ballmer say it, "Developers! Developers! Developers!" The need for developers is why Apple has given away their development tool, and so does Microsoft now (and the .NET compiler was always free).

Unix went closed very soon after it became popular. After that, compilers were proprietary and expensive. Who knows how much less UNIX would have grown with such a small developer pool.

Then comes Stallman. He developed GCC, a free compiler for UNIX. Now everybody could program for UNIX, and the developer base grew, and with it the OS.

GE, you may think Stallman is hurting UNIX, but UNIX got as far as it did partially thanks to him in the first place.

256 posted on 05/23/2006 9:33:05 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: Golden Eagle
You guys not only prefer to use his software, but push it on others constabtly with lies. On this very thread you act like tortoise is a genius, when he doesn't even patch his server!

Let's see, say I have a server that is set up for web and database services (Apache, PHP and MySQL, with OpenSSH for admin). A bug shows up in sendmail, which isn't installed on my server. Only an idiot would say I should apply the sendmail fix to my server.

You probably don't know it, but you do the same thing when you use Microsoft's Auto Update. For example, it will not apply any IIS patches if you don't have IIS installed. This is why running Auto Update after installing IIS results in a bunch of patches, new and old, being downloaded.

257 posted on 05/23/2006 9:39:20 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: rzeznikj at stout

I seen it, hehe


258 posted on 05/23/2006 10:23:19 AM PDT by Irish_Thatcherite (~A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!~| IRA supporters on FR are trolls, end of story!)
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To: antiRepublicrat; tortoise

Nope I use CDE, Sun still provides it for their users who refuse to submit to the leftist Stallman.


259 posted on 05/23/2006 10:48:47 AM PDT by Golden Eagle (Buy American. While you still can.)
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To: antiRepublicrat

He gave the impression he didn't patch ANYTHING, including his kernel, yet you boys wanted to throw him a ticker tape parade since he was using linux. An obsolete version of that too, LMAO!


260 posted on 05/23/2006 10:49:58 AM PDT by Golden Eagle (Buy American. While you still can.)
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