[LUAU] Ubuntu

[Hawaii Linux Institute]

On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 18:06 -1000, Jim Thompson wrote:
> I've been running Ubuntu inside Parallels on my Intel-powered Mac  
> Mini for a while now.   Seems to hang together nicely.
> Ubuntu (or, better, kubuntu) seems like a far better choice for a  
> desktop than, say Linspire.

Thanks.  What I want is a more in-depth personal/group experience in
using Ubuntu (or any other distro) in a (simulated or true) corporate
environment.  I hate to go through the entire process of
downloading/installation/customization through apt-getting, then realize
that one or two critical elements are missing.

> 
> Too bad Sun is laying off 5,000 folks, eh?
> 

Isn't that why the pony-tailed boss was promoted?  Don't get me wrong, I
respect Schwartz a lot and had been communicating with him.  But a
man/woman's got to do . . .


> Ah well, maybe they'll start charging an arm & leg for Solaris  
> support, trying to keep those Sun sw/support engineers paid.  Folks  
> running on Solaris will probably pay through the teeth.  Cannonical  
> will support your machine for $700/year (base price).
> 
> Jim

Compared to Exxon, Sun is almost like a mom-&-pop shop, but its internal
politics is at least ten times worse.  I have a ton of suggestions as to
how Solaris should be heading, but who cares?  Not Sun anyway.

BTW we have a SuSE 10.0 demo set up at the Hawaii State Bar Association
on Bishop St.  It has a 10 GB spare space available for dual-booting to
a second Linux distro.  But so for SuSE 10.0 seems to be doing
everything we need.  There are still too many rough edges with SuSE 10.1
(I am really puzzled why Novell could be so stupid to have wasted so
much of its precious resources on xgl.)  Wayne