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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.
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.
Bingo...8^)
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WTF is that?
Good grief.
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:
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.
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..
Rze,
Good post
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..
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?
Thanks!! 8^)
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