OT: Sun flirts with Ubuntu

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 17 May 2006, Leon Goldstein wrote:
> Net Llama! wrote:
>
> >At the risk of incurring Collins ire for not speaking highly of Ubuntu,
> >I'll toss in my 2 cents.  Sun has ZERO Linux clues.  I work with them
> >nearly every day on Linux & Solaris issues and these guys couldn't pick a
> >decent Linux distro if their lives depended on it.  I'm afraid that the
> >fact that Sun is flirting with Ubuntu doesn't really mean much of
> >anything.
> >
> If Sun is interested in backing a  Linux, a better choice would be
> investing in what is left of Libranet Debian.
> The Libranet distro has been in limbo for over a year since the death of
> its founder,  Jon Danzig.

I rather doubt that is going to happen.  I doubt anyone at Sun can spell
Debian, much less promote it.  In my dealings, all that they care about is
RHEL and SLES, and even there they are clueless.

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