Sun flirts with Ubuntu: ZDNet Australia: News: Software
> At JavaOne, both sides say they really like each other — suggesting a role for Ubuntu’s upcoming “Dapper Drake” operating system on Sun Microsystems’ servers.
> Ubuntu Linux got a ringing endorsement from Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz on Tuesday in San Francisco. In turn, Ubuntu project founder Mark Shuttleworth appeared on stage during Schwartz’s opening keynote at JavaOne to endorse Java.
It’s not set in stone, but this would be a really good thing. It seems like Ubuntu can do no wrong these days, and more and more people are jumping on the distribution. I can see why, I dropped my trusty FreeBSD in favor of Ubuntu after having used it for a while at work. Things just work, and seldom break — which they do a lot on other distributions (*cough* Gentoo cough). I also refuse to touch anything RPM based after using it for my first experiences with Linux. Source based distributions are nice, but they take way too long to upgrade if one of the core libraries change.
Just a couple of more weeks now until Dapper is final, and we can get official Xgl and Compiz packages which I can’t live without these days.
