Sun Puts its Weight Behind Ubuntu Linux

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."

With friends like these...

[SWroclawski]

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

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

Re:Debian

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Actual releases?

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

Re:With friends like these...

[Penguinisto]

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

Re:Ubuntu default color

[Anonymous Coward]

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."

OSS is being quite the slut lately!

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Re:Server?

[arachnoprobe]

... Only because you consider ...

Use the Preview Button! Check those URLs!

Re:Debian

[aug24]

A GUI, so that MSCEs can use it.

Justin.

Re:Ubuntu default color

[Anonymous Coward]

WTF?
Are you on acid or something?

Re:Must be new math or a time warp

[Ramses0]

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

--Robert

Re:Must be new math or a time warp

[muellerr1]

That's like, 6 years in Internet Time [wikipedia.org].

It's gonna explode!!!

[__aaclcg7560]

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

Re:OSS is being quite the slut lately!

[quakeroatz]

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

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

Re:With friends like these...

[TrekCycling]

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. :)

Horrifying nerd porn

[Anonymous Coward]

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 [google.com]

How can I sleep now? Thank you, Slashdot.

Dammit!

[curtlewis]

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.... :-/

The Sun

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Re:I don't buy it.

[Orrin Bloquy]

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.