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- santasing, on 04/14/2008, -1/+75Sun seems to be doing a lot of things right recently.
- simpleboy, on 04/14/2008, -6/+79Another milestone for Ubuntu!
- SpeKopuZ, on 04/14/2008, -2/+40Sun rocks :D
- cesclaveria, on 04/14/2008, -2/+38in the good old days this would have been a normal headline... *sigh*
- alphacoder, on 04/14/2008, -0/+26Finally! As a developer, I would love for Ubuntu to get "standard" Java support. I know it means a lot in corporate, just as in the case with RHEL.
- Mohdoo, on 04/14/2008, -1/+22It's very interesting to see no advances being made for Windows, under the very generous assumption that is not actually diminishing. While at the same time, Linux is growing very rapidly. If this current trend continues, there will be a lot more reason for companies to put time into Linux...Exponentiation growth. Sounds great to me =D If my games ran as well on Ubuntu as they did on Windows, Windows would have no purpose for me.
- kingvik, on 04/15/2008, -0/+19I think that there are stickers involved.
- l815, on 04/14/2008, -1/+17Sun has been doing great things lately, as well as Linux is getting its deserved awakening.
- inactive, on 04/14/2008, -4/+18That's great news for Ubuntu and Linux in general. But don't forget that Solaris is now open too as OpenSolaris and it is a great OS.
- malcam, on 04/14/2008, -0/+11It relates to business use of Ubuntu. Means "enterprise" class companies will start to take notice of it where they would only consider the likes of Windows, Red Hat, Solaris etc...
- Spuy767, on 04/14/2008, -4/+15I know the compulsion for Diggers is to bury anything that doesn't sound positive in a linux artice, but listen to me. . . I'm bashing sun, not linux. Put the pitchfork down.
- crazysamz, on 04/14/2008, -1/+11Awesome Job Sun! Looks like someone is doing something right...
- vertexoflife, on 04/14/2008, -0/+10He dissed my aunt.
Not cool. - ultrafez, on 04/14/2008, -0/+10And you're obviously mature enough to comment.
- jer2eydevil88, on 04/14/2008, -0/+9This was all over the upcoming section yesterday, glad to see it rose to the frontpage today!!
- InferiorWang, on 04/15/2008, -0/+9I love Sun. They don't make a lot of sane business decisions, but they do plenty of crazy things to try to help the community.
- MarshyTheKid, on 04/14/2008, -0/+9Finally!
I've been trying to get 32 Firefox to work properly on my 64 Gutsy since there isn't a 64 bit java for it.
Hopefully that means Sun will do a 64 bit version of Java for us. - santasing, on 04/14/2008, -0/+8Dude what....Java does not work that way....the certification probably just means they are making sure all the classpaths are set correctly, Hardy ships with Sun Java installed by default and not GIJ etc.
- weizbox, on 04/14/2008, -3/+11'Sun told the wire service that it’s making sure its Java programming language, tools and Java server are compatible with Heron. '
Is this all that is done in the certification process? Does anyone know more about it? - santasing, on 04/15/2008, -1/+9@skod
Could you please remove that Ubunutu logo from your avatar. Linux users are generally considered to be smart. - cantormath, on 04/14/2008, -0/+8GO SUN!
- shakin, on 04/15/2008, -0/+7"Enterprise" class companies already use Linux. This just means that Sun will sell their hardware with Ubuntu pre-installed. It's good for Ubuntu because some companies really like Sun hardware and it's great for Sun because companies who use Linux (which outnumber companies using Sun hardware) will now be able to choose Sun over Dell, HP, and others.
- vertexoflife, on 04/14/2008, -0/+7Infertile Idiot?
- Spuy767, on 04/14/2008, -9/+16Now they can work on increasing performance. I've been using Java as part of a web application that i've authored because it can do smooth text marquees, something that flach finds utterly impossible, and I would love to use a linux box as the terminal for my application, but Java runs like ***** ***** on ubuntu and I am forced to use windows instead.
- Atomic1fire, on 04/14/2008, -0/+7Heron or heroin?
- Atomic1fire, on 04/14/2008, -0/+7Intoxicated indian?
- Protoss, on 04/14/2008, -0/+6Really trying to make that catch on aren't you?
- kaykfrink, on 04/14/2008, -2/+7Woo woo, simmer down. We are aware of all the things Sun has been doing lately (you forgot about open sourcing Java and buying MySQL too,) this is just another piece of good news. If anything the news is more important for Ubuntu since
a.) having this type of relationship with Sun should mean smooth support for Java (instead of having Java packages in the repos that are always a year old)
b.) getting recognition like this from a company such as Sun is a fairly nice stepping stone. It means that Ubuntu is being taken seriously by corporations and that it is growing into its role as the defacto general purpose desktop distro. - Atomic1fire, on 04/14/2008, -0/+5At least this one is one letter away from a drug name
Wait till someone either misreads or typo's an I in there - web2pointYo, on 04/14/2008, -3/+8Every once in a while I forget how tech heavy digg is. Then I have to re-read a headline like this, 3 times...then I remember. :)
- Lewie, on 04/14/2008, -0/+5Yes, Homosexuals invented alliteration.
- thecheatah, on 04/15/2008, -0/+5I LOVE STICKERS!
- runner108, on 04/14/2008, -3/+8I'm not a linux user.. what does this mean for Linux?
- supermanred, on 04/15/2008, -0/+4Now if someone would make Ubuntu drivers that auto-install on a Macbook so I can use compiz fusion I would be really happy!
Ubuntu is quickly approaching the usability of OS X and becoming a real contender in the desktop OS scene. I would love to see it do well. If it keeps going in the user-friendly direction, it will become a force to recon with.
However, the last time I installed Ubuntu on my Macbook it took quite a bit of command line goodness and file editing to get everything working right, including some driver re-writing... something Grandma and Grandpa probably couldnt do. (Hell they can barely figure out how to use Windows, or OS X where updating drivers is like 2 button clicks) - flawedprefect, on 04/15/2008, -0/+4Love it. Dugg for sure.
- gameforge, on 04/15/2008, -0/+4That is good indeed. Is Solaris all but dead in the enterprise class? I've always wished more would come of their kernel since they made it FOSS.
- ldog, on 04/15/2008, -0/+4Which JVM? I haven't noticed any peformance problems with a Sun JVM on Linux since at least 1.4
GCJ/GIJ is a great project, but performance always needed quite a bit of work. - wigren, on 04/14/2008, -0/+4https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardyReleaseSchedule
April 24th. - gopy, on 04/15/2008, -0/+3If you weren't very tech oriented, the title of the link would be very confusing to you. "Sun Certifying Ubuntu - with Hardy Heron!"
.... WHAT!? - slider121, on 04/15/2008, -0/+3Taken from Sun's site: 64-bit support for Java Plug-in software is currently not available
- inactive, on 04/15/2008, -0/+3Windows hasn't gotten any REAL advancements lately... That's the point. If it slows down, that means good things for other OS's.
- MWeather, on 04/15/2008, -0/+3I'd hate it if my games ran as well on Ubuntu as they did on windows. I've gotten used to the increased performance under Ubuntu.
- inactive, on 04/15/2008, -0/+3neat!
- vertexoflife, on 04/14/2008, -1/+4Um. No.
- lonniebiz, on 04/15/2008, -0/+2How is Sun buying open source software. They bought MySQL, and they bought VirtualBox. What does this mean for continuing to have free full featured versions of these software?
- Jareth86, on 04/15/2008, -0/+2You know, its weird. When Gutsy Gibbon was in development, it seemed like up until the day it came out, I'd see four or more articles a week about a new feature, alpha release, beta release, etc.
With Hardy Heron though, this is the first article I've seen in a while that even mentions it. Is Digg suffering from Ubuntu fatigue? - Daniel591992, on 04/14/2008, -0/+2Anyone know when in April it comes out?
- yahoofrom, on 04/15/2008, -0/+2Moon sucks :)
- Spuy767, on 04/15/2008, -0/+2I run a text marquee and it looks abominable. It runs as smooth as butter under windows, but it looks like garbage under Linux. have a look if you wish, the address I have hosting the Web app publically is http://cellar43.com/Default.aspx?display_ID=screen ... There's a java marquee doing its thing at the bottom. I've tried just about every flavor of linuz I can think of and every one either doesn't run properly, or runs like garbage. If you take a look at it, PM me as to how it runs, an if it runs smoothly, and I'm talking 60FPS smooth, then let me know what your config is and Maybe I can get something working because I'd really love to support the linux community instead of the redmond machine.
- arcticblue, on 04/15/2008, -0/+2Works perfect until you apply all the latest updates and then sudo stops working. Something changed in the way it handles the hosts file and you have to edit /etc/hosts by hand to get everything back to normal. For those curious, add your hostname to the end of the line that contains your FQDN (hostname.domain) so that it looks something like this: 127.0.1.1 hostname.domain hostname
Oh yeah, and virt-manager is STILL broken. -
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