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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: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. 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.

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

    Use the Preview Button! Check those URLs!

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

    A GUI, so that MSCEs can use it.

    Justin.

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    You're only jealous cos the little penguins are talking to me.
  6. Re:Must be new math or a time warp by Ramses0 · · Score: 4, Funny

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

    --Robert

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

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

  9. 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.... :-/

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

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

  11. 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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