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.
Don't project. You're not an overhead...
I don't remember that one. It doesn't sound right unless he was joking, especially because his English is generally better than yours.
We've established he doesn't know anything about computers. Halloween == Christmas is probably beyond him.
Of course he'll probably Google the answer and say "I know that!"
1010011010, the number of the beast.
You've proven you have no sense of humor, so what jokes?
Every communist dictator breathes air, so be true to yourself and do us a favor -- and stop breathing.
How many people can read hex if only you and dead people can read hex?
Watch out, your master may punish you for such blasphemy.
Typical, insults is all we get from you guys, while renuzit still hasn't admitted his lies just above. But, of course, anyone who knows you guys is used to it.
I don't take advice on religion from atheists. So stuff it.
Well considering what Post 88 says, my guess is that he's gotten the electronic shocks straight from Bill Gates himself and will not return to his normal shilling schedule....

:)
There 10 kinds of people in this world, those who know binary and those who dont
Yeah, I didn't know I was an air freshener...
57006.
DEAD = 57005.
Add yourself.
I used to know binary from high school and could do hex pretty good--but I've let it get really rusty.
I'm a geek. I thought the answer was DEAE :)
That's one of the things I still remember...
Writing words on your calculator is a lot easier when you have one that does hex.
Yep. Though I remember studying hex when I took HTML and computing...
I always remember writing words such as GOBBLE, BOOBIES, HELLO, etc. on those cheap grocery store calculators--heck, when I was in grade school, we did that one day...
Now I feel old. HTML wasn't around then, and a calculator that could do hex wasn't cheap.
I haven't been around all that long--I'm only 20
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