How often are news outlets incorrect? Well, in this Reuters story they’re flat wrong about Sun being the first major software vendor to certify Ubuntu on their hardware.
Sun is the first of the world’s major server computer makers to certify that its hardware works with Ubuntu Linux, Shuttleworth told Reuters in an interview.
Later in the article the version of Ubuntu is brought up when Java compatibility if mentioned - this was accurate. If Reuter’s had originally stated:
Sun is the first of the world’s major server computer makers to certify that its hardware works with Ubuntu 8.04…
This would have been correct. Officially the Ubuntu 8.04 is due on April 24, 2008. Interestingly they plan on dropping Sparc support moving forward. That part isn’t in the Reuters story I thought it was a bit odd so I included it here.
Now if you are not familiar with Ubuntu here’s a little history. I sorta lived through their growth so I speak with first hand knowledge. About 4 or 5 years ago Mark Shuttleworth brought folks from Debian and GNOME together to build distro that released more often than others and on a schedule. Around this time those of use using Debian (hacked up unofficial 3.0) were thrilled to death. You see Debian only releases every quarter century. We were all worked up for the coming of Warty.
I’ve stay with Ubuntu through every upgrade since that time. I fought in the trenches for Adobe to release an early version of Flash 9 for Linux and with many other stayed on their asses expressing our (Linux users) need for Adobe Air for Linux.
