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.
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I just installed Kubuntu 64bit Linux Flight 7(beta version), hated it and now im downloading Mandriva "one" to give that a shot...
(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")
What did you hate about Kubuntu? I haven't used it, but I think it's just Debian with KDE (which is what I use) with some novice-user-friendly stuff.
I like Ubuntu!
Sun getting into Ubuntu doesn't convince me to use it. I'm fine with using Debian.
just think it was a pain in the butt with login, no root etc, also with the the beat not sure why but after rebooting a couple times it screwed up and got kernel panic error... not sure if its something with the 64bit edition or the beta status... one thing I found that i lied was a Koffice fraphic editor called "krita" i think thats what it was called... seems pretty good for normal image editing, better layout than gimp.
yep, I like Mepis better... :\
one thing I found that i liked was a Koffice graphic editor called "krita" i think thats what it was called... seems pretty good for normal image editing with a better layout than gimp.
Yes, I took a look at Krita again after not trying it for a long time, and it has progressed quite a bit. It supports CMYK color, which the Gimp still lacks.
I'm used to the Gimp, though...but I'll try actually using Krita soon.
Does "Film Gimp" support CMYK color?
Now that I think about it, I'm not sure whether or not Film Gimp is even being actively developed anymore.
Tech Ping?
I have Krita on Suse.
There are some things I prefer the Gimp for, and others for Krita...
How's Kubuntu working out?
Its not I didn't like it to much... im downloading Mandriva "one" 2006 at the moment...
If i dont like that I will go back to Mepis 6 beta3
AHHH! I should have downloaded that and gave it a shot instead of Mandriva... :\
For he who lives more lives than one,
More deaths than one must die.
10.1 is out; I recommend downloading the Evaluation version
http://en.opensuse.org
IIRC, it's available as 5 CD images or one DVD...
The installer is graphical, and is almost terrifyingly easy to follow.
(There is no "trial version"--Eval here means that there are some components such as Flash, etc. that aren't on the purely OSS version)
As for Mandriva, I've heard good things about it--but with my internal CD drive still dead, I can't really do much about it.
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