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.
Well at least you're willing to admit you only look out for #1, and could care less about your country unless it's in your interest. That's all I was hoping to get from you, since you're obviously not about to change.
The wasted money is hugh...8^)
I have a dad who's a printing estimator, I work for a printer over the summer, and took four years of Graphic Arts in high school...
When did Dell sell desktops with Linux installed?
IIRC, they didn't. End of story.
Finally, I'm not going to admit to bull...
No, what we're saying is that we're going to use the best tool for the job. It doesn't really matter where it's produced, and trying to label us as unpatriotic and "not supporting our country" because we don't automatically buy American is utterly absurd--even for you.
Given a choice between two items--where the only difference betweem the two is one made in America, we'll probably take the American one.
Other than that, it's whatever fits. For many of us, Linux not only gets the job done, but does it better. Pure and simple.
You clearly know very little about Unix servers.
Like I said, you've got a lot to learn...
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b6abbf35b06.htm
I was running Sun Solaris long before Linux even supported RAID. Do you even remember the old Linus Torvalds joke?
"We no need hotswap, we too stable. We get spellcheck oneday, zen you die."
LOL still funny.
That was the Naked Computer program--which is now only available to large corporations, major universities, etc. that buy computers in bulk.
They used to contract and install the OS too, or you could buy a naked computer--without an OS
LOL just like I said, instead of ever admitting you're wrong, you trot out more lies.
Projection is a funny thing, eh?
It's an old computer joke--and it seems it's clearly above your head...
Linux equals communism, that's all he needs to know.
Some old jokes are funny, like mine. Yours is blasphemous.
LOL
leave it up to Idiot ERRRRR Iggle to call someone blasphemous on a computer thread!!!
Iggle you're too damn much sometimes...LOL
Get real. You don't have jokes.
Just crude remarks and nasty ad hominems.
And you don't care for Jim Rome, either...
Well, every communist government is standardizing on it. Of course it's not a 'theory' of my own, it's been a well known goal of them ever since that leftist put out the book "Cybercommunism" back in the 90's.
That's generally what businesses do. And I don't believe in subsidizing inferior companies. You do, however, given your past comments. You even like government subsidies.
He's seen a screwed-up Red Hat update once, so he's an expert.
You're wrong again like usual. I know a lot of good old jokes. Here's one you'll probably even like:
What did Bill Gates wife say to him the first night of their honeymoon?
"I see why you called it Micro-soft"
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