Sun to certify it's servers for Ubuntu?

[Karl Goetz]

On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 23:08 +1000, Daniel Mons wrote:
> Dave Hall wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> Speaking for myself only, SPARC doesn't interest me in the slightest.  I 
> would hazard a guess and say the vast majority of folks who are using 
> SPARC based gear will be running Solaris anyway.

Speaking personally, SPARC is the only gear sun produces that interests
me. I'm not remotely interested in their rebadged AMD's.
i cant reasonably coment about the amount of solaris in use - i dont
move in those circles :)

> 
> I'm much more interested in Sun's x86_64 gear.  Sun have recently 
> dropped the price of the x86 blade gear.  And as I mentioned before, 
> having it available "off the shelf" with Ubuntu and MySQL *AND* that 
> ever-important, CIO-satisfying "support" is something that's got my 
> interest peaked.

Not sure what you mean - there is no longer 'off the shelf' support for
Ubuntu's latest LTS (unless it comes later)
kk

> 
> -Dan
> 
-- 
Karl Goetz <karl at kgoetz.id.au>
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