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Sun Puts its Weight Behind Ubuntu Linux

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the stepping-stones-to-success dept.

fak3r writes "Sun today announced that they are putting their weight behind Ubuntu Linux. While Ubuntu has been many people's desktop Linux choice for a few years now, with its Debian heritage, you can see what kind of server it could be. Slap that on the new Sun 1Us with the new Niagra T1's CPU, the one that'll have four, six or eight cores each, and go to town."

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  1. With friends like these... by SWroclawski · · Score: 5, Funny

    As a very happy Ubuntu user, I'm scared.

    But it could be worse, it could be "Ubuntu, supported by SGI"

    1. Re:With friends like these... by Penguinisto · · Score: 5, Funny
      Oh, c'mon - it won't be that bad... you'll just have to get your files from hard drives named "/dev/rdsk/c0t0sUpercalifragilistic" and things like that.

      At least you won't have to hunt down and install j2se. /P

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    2. Re:With friends like these... by TrekCycling · · Score: 1, Funny

      They're out there. Maybe "fan" is the wrong word, but you know the types. System admins who swear by Sun because that's all they've ever used. And then one day they wake up and have to install Dapper Duck on their beloved Sun boxes. :)

  2. Re:Debian by /ASCII · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actual releases?

    (Though I hope Etch will be the start of a new trend there)

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  3. Re:Ubuntu default color by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You're absolutely right. I love my cornflower blue and would love to see it.

    I have this cousin who is really good at colors. She went to a certificate program and got herself some degree interior decor-- you won't believe what great stuff she can get at Ikea! Anyways, she ALWAYS insists on blue. Always. You'll notice in our history of aesthetics that great paintings from that of, what's his name, some Dutch guy or Holland guy (is that a country or a city??) Jan Van Eyck to DaVinci they ALWAYS paint in blue. Always. You won't find any of those fruity so-called 'artists' today using blue. Picasso never used BLUE PERIOD. In the greater art world, they always blue. Never brown, like oh, I don't know, Bosch's "Garden of Earthly Delights" or something more esoteric like "Mona Lisa."

  4. OSS is being quite the slut lately! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yesterday: Microsoft flirts with open source
    Today: Sun flirts with Ubuntu (yahoo article title)

    1. Re:OSS is being quite the slut lately! by quakeroatz · · Score: 2, Funny

      Flirts? Ha! Sun has made it to fourth base with Ubuntu.

      "Sun Puts its Weight Behind Ubuntu Linux", that has to be awkward.

  5. Re:Server? by arachnoprobe · · Score: 2, Funny
    ... Only because you consider ...

    Use the Preview Button! Check those URLs!

  6. Re:Debian by aug24 · · Score: 5, Funny

    A GUI, so that MSCEs can use it.

    Justin.

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  7. Re:Ubuntu default color by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    WTF?
    Are you on acid or something?

  8. Re:Must be new math or a time warp by Ramses0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dude, chill out- the're internet years... sheesh.

    --Robert

  9. Re:Must be new math or a time warp by muellerr1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's like, 6 years in Internet Time.

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  10. It's gonna explode!!! by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 2, Funny

    If Sun puts too much weight behind Ubuntu, it could explode like a supernova.

  11. Horrifying nerd porn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    they really like each other ... there is a love affair ... Shuttleworth flirted back

    This is like the most terrifying piece of porno I've ever seen on the Internets.

    For the love of god, please don't let them kiss. Please, no.

    Schwartz

    Shuttleworth

    How can I sleep now? Thank you, Slashdot.

  12. Dammit! by curtlewis · · Score: 2, Funny

    I just put Ubuntu on my desktop.

    Now I'm gonna have to go and put something else on it because obviously I made a bad choice.... :-/

  13. The Sun by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...with a mass of 2x10^30 kg, that's saying something.

  14. Re:I don't buy it. by Orrin+Bloquy · · Score: 4, Funny

    becaus if Linux wins, Sun will be reduced to a vendor of exotic albeit powerful and very expensive hardware running a commodity OS on it.

    No, I believe that violates several of Apple's patents.
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