Sun to certify it's servers for Ubuntu?

[Dave Hall]

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