On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 20:10 +1000, Daniel Mons wrote: > http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9911332-16.html > http://seekingalpha.com/article/71011-sun-microsystems-next-linux-move > > Speaking from the point of view of a corporate Linux Sysadmin and an > Ubuntu lover, this is great news. The idea of buying Sun hardware > bundled with Ubuntu, MySQL, and commercial/official support for the lot > in one package is mouth watering.
Well lets look at recent history: * SPARC Will not be a supported platform for hardy - see https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2008-March/000400.html * Dapper was certified for the Niagara based SunFire T2000s, but then Sun changed the hardware to make to RoHS compliant, and it stopped working, and it remains unfixed today. A few months after Edgy came out it was "supported" by Sun. So I would wait for there to be a bit of a track record before getting to excited about this. Say a LTS release or 2 which provides full LTS for the advertised platforms. Cheers Dave -- ubuntu-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
