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Fujitsu Bundling SUSE Linux
WillAffleckUW writes "Fujitsu, which already offers Red Hat Linux on its servers, is announcing plans to offer SUSE Linux as well, according to an Infoworld article. Sadly, it's only for servers and services for Intel, not for AMD. Still, good news, in that you can go Red or Blue and still be Linux true!"
PrimeQuest and Primergy servers gain Suse Linux support
By Martyn Williams, IDG News Service
July 08, 2005
Fujitsu (Profile, Products, Articles) will begin offering Novell's (Profile, Products, Articles) Suse Linux Enterprise Server software and support services for Fujitsu PrimeQuest and Primergy servers worldwide later this year, it said Friday. SPONSOR
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The company will offer the software with the Intel (Profile, Products, Articles) architecture servers from the end of September this year, said Nancy Ikehara, a spokeswoman for Fujitsu in Tokyo.
Fujitsu currently offers Windows and Red Hat (Profile, Products, Articles) Linux software development and support services for its PrimeQuest and Primergy servers.
The new agreement extends a deal that's been in place since 2000, under which Fujitsu supported Suse software on its Primergy servers in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
It is, though I think a few of the Personal releases might have been blue.
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My experiences with installing Linux on Fujitsu equipment has been absolute hell recently. The installation instructions for RedHat Linux on a lot of their sevrers force you to use a series of driver disks, then make a bunch of system hacks to get it to install. It takes forever to do, and it's a beeyatch to document it as well, and don't get me started on upgrading the kernel. I can't update it from RHN cause then I'll break all their little modules. So I'm stuck with an old kernel on their hardware. Debian won't go on their BX300 blades... well, it does, but not until you've jigged with the Promise RAID a lot. Also, BSD 5.4 is a PITA to install on a twin CPU RX300. You need to disable one of the CPUs to get it installed, then rebuild the kernel with SMP module.
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And please, quit it with those damned poems :P
Sun is NOT dropping their Linux support. They are dropping support for their Java Desktop System. When Linux accounts for a large number of their server shipments, I doubt the shareholders would like them dropping support for it. I read somewhere that they ship more Linux servers than they do Solaris servers.
Note : Desktop != Server
HP are to bundle Ubuntu on some of their laptops as a default install, with all the ACPI, Wifi support etc working out of the box.
HP are to bundle Ubuntu on some of their laptops as a default install, with all the ACPI, Wifi support etc working out of the box.
It doesn't come pre-installed, they throw a CD in the box (like they used to do with FreeDOS floppies). And they won't sell these units in North America.
Can you guess the reason for all of this esoteric jumping through hoops?
For example:
"New heights achieved with SAP R/3 high-end computing:
23,000 SD benchmark users; LINUX entering business critical computer environments"
An old press release. Fujitsu Siemens have been offering large SAP installation running on Linux, lately SuSE I bellive.