Re: [Sheflug] Mad Hatter

[David Holden <dh [at] xxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 15 Sep 2003 2:27 pm, Denis Nikitin wrote:
> Hi all,
> Heard about new SUN initiative to ban microsoft from corporate desktops:
> http://www.sun.com/2003-0805/feature/
> Does anybody know what distro they 've used to build this "sun desktop"?
> They are promising a very good java integration/support which I tend to
> believe since it's coming from Sun.
> Plus there is some fuss about 3D desktop - "Looking Glass" demoed in a
> scope of the subject.
> Best regards,
> Denis.
>
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They started off creating there own distro (actually a modified Redhat 7.1/2?) 
they've since made agreements with RedHat and SuSe so I suspect they will 
plonk it on top of that.

Sun haven't a clue what they're doing on a whole host of things at the moment.

First they said they were abandoning solaris on Ix86 now they are pushing it 
big time. They slag of linux (and buy into SCO nonsense) on the one hand and 
on the other do things like mad hatter.

You might want to read

http://news.com.com/2010-1071-5075194.html

dave.


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