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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

Don't project. You're not an overhead...


81 posted on 05/18/2006 5:05:34 PM PDT by rzeznikj at stout (ASCII and ye shall receive... (Computers 3:14))
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To: Golden Eagle
Do you even remember the old Linus Torvalds joke? "We no need hotswap, we too stable. We get spellcheck oneday, zen you die."

I don't remember that one. It doesn't sound right unless he was joking, especially because his English is generally better than yours.

82 posted on 05/18/2006 5:05:37 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: rzeznikj at stout; Golden Eagle
It's an old computer joke--and it seems it's clearly above your head...

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.

83 posted on 05/18/2006 5:08:49 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: Golden Eagle
Some old jokes are funny, like mine.

You've proven you have no sense of humor, so what jokes?

84 posted on 05/18/2006 5:09:35 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: Golden Eagle
Well, every communist government is standardizing on it.

Every communist dictator breathes air, so be true to yourself and do us a favor -- and stop breathing.

85 posted on 05/18/2006 5:10:36 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat; Golden Eagle

How many people can read hex if only you and dead people can read hex?


86 posted on 05/18/2006 5:10:54 PM PDT by rzeznikj at stout (ASCII and ye shall receive... (Computers 3:14))
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To: Golden Eagle
What did Bill Gates wife say to him the first night of their honeymoon? "I see why you called it Micro-soft"

Watch out, your master may punish you for such blasphemy.

87 posted on 05/18/2006 5:11:43 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat

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.


88 posted on 05/18/2006 5:12:24 PM PDT by Golden Eagle (Buy American. While you still can.)
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To: antiRepublicrat

I don't take advice on religion from atheists. So stuff it.


89 posted on 05/18/2006 5:12:56 PM PDT by Golden Eagle (Buy American. While you still can.)
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To: antiRepublicrat; Golden Eagle

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....


90 posted on 05/18/2006 5:13:41 PM PDT by MikefromOhio (aka MikeinIraq - Woohoo!! I'm on A List!!! yay!!!!)
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To: Golden Eagle; antiRepublicrat
I don't take advice on religion from atheists. So stuff it.

oh he told us!! Except I'm not an atheist.....although I'm totally sure Iggle would want to proclaim a "NATIONAL RELIGION" with BG as it's headpiece...



91 posted on 05/18/2006 5:15:29 PM PDT by MikefromOhio (aka MikeinIraq - Woohoo!! I'm on A List!!! yay!!!!)
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To: rzeznikj at stout

:)

There 10 kinds of people in this world, those who know binary and those who don’t


92 posted on 05/18/2006 5:15:46 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: MikefromOhio

Yeah, I didn't know I was an air freshener...


93 posted on 05/18/2006 5:17:14 PM PDT by rzeznikj at stout (ASCII and ye shall receive... (Computers 3:14))
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To: antiRepublicrat

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.


94 posted on 05/18/2006 5:18:39 PM PDT by rzeznikj at stout (ASCII and ye shall receive... (Computers 3:14))
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To: rzeznikj at stout
57006.

I'm a geek. I thought the answer was DEAE :)

95 posted on 05/18/2006 5:20:29 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat

That's one of the things I still remember...


96 posted on 05/18/2006 5:21:40 PM PDT by rzeznikj at stout (ASCII and ye shall receive... (Computers 3:14))
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To: rzeznikj at stout
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.

97 posted on 05/18/2006 5:23:08 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat

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...


98 posted on 05/18/2006 5:26:08 PM PDT by rzeznikj at stout (ASCII and ye shall receive... (Computers 3:14))
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To: rzeznikj at stout
Yep. Though I remember studying hex when I took HTML and computing...

Now I feel old. HTML wasn't around then, and a calculator that could do hex wasn't cheap.

99 posted on 05/18/2006 5:28:33 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat

I haven't been around all that long--I'm only 20


100 posted on 05/18/2006 5:33:50 PM PDT by rzeznikj at stout (ASCII and ye shall receive... (Computers 3:14))
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