[SLL] Sun Now Leaning Towards Ubuntu...

[Mark Foster]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> Because these days the underlying packaging system really doesn't matter
> much.  It's the tools on top of them that you care about, and guess
> what, you get apt on rpm systems too (no yum for deb though, pitty).
>   
Does anyone actually do this (run apt on rpm system)?
Sounds like trouble to me.
> What's funny about Sun and Ubuntu is that Red Hat recently hired away
> Ubuntu's only Sparc guy and a major kernel guy (Kyle McMartin).  Ubuntu
> has some /serious/ longevity problems when they start to try and
> actually do the long term support stuff.
>   
How so? I've been running Dapper (6.06 LTS) since it came out and it has 
been very solid.
Are you talking about resource issues @ Canonical?

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