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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. Server? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ubuntu on a server? So what? Ubuntu's strength is that it is a desktop "Linux for Idiots". Ubuntu is great for non-guru's but is nothing special as a server.

  2. Debian by towsonu2003 · · Score: 0, Troll

    As long as Ubuntu knows its responsibility to contribute to its parent, Debian, this sounds good. In the meantime, Debian could learn a trick or two about being "fast"...

  3. Re:With friends like these... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    used to previously nice.

  4. Re:apt-get is not a Linux distribution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Oh yeah...perhaps I should explain what this ISO23360 is.... specifies a set of requirements for Linux-based OSes (file structures, included shared libraries, software packaging format, etc) ...

    How nice, they put all the stupid decisions into one standard. Now I can tell quickly which distros (and applications) to avoid.

  5. Actually, by hummassa · · Score: 0, Troll

    alien works for me 95% of the cases. works for Oracle, for instance... unless I have strict time constraints, instead of ./configure && make && sudo checkinstall make install I take my time to do dh_make, edit debian/*, and fakeroot debian/rules binary.

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  6. Losing one detail... by hummassa · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ubuntu improves the desktop presentation of Debian. How is that useful for Sun in the server market?
    Ubuntu also gives you a Debian server with time-based stable-releases (so, the need for backports is minimized). Actually, I am running Breezy even on my servers nowadays, because there is some server stuff that I want that is not on Woody... and I did not want to wait 'till 6.12 (etch) for something I had in a nice shape in 5.10 (breezy)
    []s

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    It's better to be the foot on the boot than the face on the pavement. ~~ tkx Kadin2048