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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; rzeznikj at stout; N3WBI3
Gold Eagle Out

Dear God let it be forever......
281 posted on 05/23/2006 6:37:56 PM PDT by MikefromOhio (aka MikeinIraq)
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To: Golden Eagle

You're not helping your cause at all.

So what if I'm majoring in PoliSci? What relevance does this have to the thread? Absolutely none whatsoever.

We've favored these systems not because they're bleeding edge and have all the bells and whistles. Rather, they've proven their effectiveness and they still work.

Second, we don't skip kernel patches. We just don't install what's not necessary right away. Like I said, the aim here is to do no harm. Why risk instability putting on stuff that simply isn't necessary?

Finally, I predict the same thing's going to happen with Vista once it comes out--more people are going to simply stick with XP. Perhaps then you might understand what's going on from our point of view.


282 posted on 05/23/2006 6:39:24 PM PDT by rzeznikj at stout (ASCII and ye shall receive... (Computers 3:14))
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To: MikefromOhio

Bingo...8^)


283 posted on 05/23/2006 6:50:06 PM PDT by rzeznikj at stout (ASCII and ye shall receive... (Computers 3:14))
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To: Golden Eagle
CDE?

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

284 posted on 05/23/2006 7:12:29 PM PDT by FLAMING DEATH
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To: rzeznikj at stout; N3WBI3; MikefromOhio; FLAMING DEATH; Petronski; antiRepublicrat


Thread Jester Ping

A low-volume pinglist dedicated for all the thread jesters--you know who you are...8^)

FReepmail rzeznikj at stout or MikefromOhio to be added or removed from the pinglist...

285 posted on 05/23/2006 7:55:23 PM PDT by rzeznikj at stout (ASCII and ye shall receive... (Computers 3:14))
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To: MikefromOhio

LOL - I needed that one!


286 posted on 05/23/2006 7:57:14 PM PDT by stainlessbanner
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To: stainlessbanner

LOL


287 posted on 05/23/2006 8:01:59 PM PDT by MikefromOhio (aka MikeinIraq)
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To: FLAMING DEATH

WTF is that?


Good grief.


288 posted on 05/23/2006 8:05:51 PM PDT by Petronski (I just love that woman.)
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To: Golden Eagle
No, I refused to join in on your praise of Russian hackers,

No, you didn't know about the tool or the hacker. Here's where I get to have a LOT of fun because I've been leading you on for a while, letting you dig your own hole.

Fyodor is an American. And check this out:


289 posted on 05/24/2006 5:50:28 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: Golden Eagle
Only idiots don't patch their servers after patches for them come out.

Then you're an idiot if you use Windows Update, because that's standard policy for Microsoft, and pretty much the rest of the world that knows what it's doing -- as opposed to you.

290 posted on 05/24/2006 5:52:16 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: Golden Eagle; tortoise

See the thing about GE is he worships the vendor, I like to have a relationship with them but what is the point of having a highly skilled IT department if all they do is whatever the vendor tells them. Why have an architect if not to realize that a good deal of vendor patches and configurations are not optimal / necessary and are designed only to cover the vendors rear end not increase your server productivity..


291 posted on 05/24/2006 7:03:44 AM PDT by N3WBI3 ("I can kill you with my brain" - River Tam)
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To: rzeznikj at stout

Rze,

Good post


292 posted on 05/24/2006 7:04:46 AM PDT by N3WBI3 ("I can kill you with my brain" - River Tam)
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To: FLAMING DEATH

Hey give CDE a break I cut my teeth on that more than a decade ago and its not a bad interface for a high end workstation (CAD for example) though I would not use it for a desktop..


293 posted on 05/24/2006 7:06:07 AM PDT by N3WBI3 ("I can kill you with my brain" - River Tam)
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To: N3WBI3

Ten years ago?

I rest my case... ;)

You're right, it is probably good for the uses you described, but if that were my day-to-day desktop, I'd quickly go mad.

Heck, Windows UI makes me cranky. No ability to reskin the toolbar or window decorations?

What would I do with my spare time?


294 posted on 05/24/2006 7:17:40 AM PDT by FLAMING DEATH
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To: FLAMING DEATH
KDE is nearly 10 years old itself and CDE has developed a bit. If you spend the majority of your time on a windows workstation you may not want to tinker around with X-Windows too much and CDE is a nice vanilla product.
295 posted on 05/24/2006 7:26:46 AM PDT by N3WBI3 ("I can kill you with my brain" - River Tam)
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To: N3WBI3

Thanks!! 8^)


296 posted on 05/24/2006 9:56:12 AM PDT by rzeznikj at stout (ASCII and ye shall receive... (Computers 3:14))
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