"Even though Solaris will always hold the inside track when it comes to supporting features on the Sparc chip architecture, Sun Microsystems knows that it has to take an extremely open approach to its hardware and software if it wants to become a true volume player in the server racket. And that is why the company is enthusiastic about getting Linux ported to its new "Niagara" Sparc T1 processors.
But, as you might expect, Sun is not as interested in helping rival operating system platform providers Red Hat and Novell make money with their Linuxes as it is in convincing other Linux providers to support their distros on the T1s, thereby taking a whack at the X64 server vendors and the two main Linux platform providers and the Windows platform from Microsoft all at the same time. Think of it as hitting a triple play, since any sale of a non-X64, non-Windows platform does, in some way, weaken Microsoft. This might be the reason why Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's new chief executive officer, has been talking up the Ubuntu variant of the Debian line of Linux in recent weeks. Canonical, which releases Ubuntu 6.06 Long Term Support Server Edition on June 1, is also interested in getting some press around its efforts to move from Debian desktops to data centers and departmental servers. "
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Ubuntu on SPARC? but SPARC is damn expensive :(
Yeah.. That's why. There's so many distro nowadays. Well missed the days when only redhat, mandrake, debian, slackware are the only known distro (malaysia laa). Easy for me to keep track on their progress. Well better stick to bsd :D
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