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  • Sun flirts with Ubuntu

    At JavaOne, both sides say they really like each other -- suggesting a role for Ubuntu's upcoming "Dapper Drake" operating system on Sun Microsystems' servers.

  • Ubuntu 'Feisty Fawn' released, hit by traffic

    Canonical on Thursday released version 7.04 of Ubuntu Linux, nicknamed Feisty Fawn, but the company's Web site was unable to keep up with the demand for the software.

  • Sun promises 100 percent open source Java in 2008

    Sun is to open source the last closed-source parts of Java, a move that should make it possible to fully integrate the software into Linux distributions.

  • Sun promises to open-source Java

    Sun Microsystems will open-source Java, it just has to figure out how to do it, company executives said on Tuesday.

  • Ubuntu gets served by enterprise

    Canonical, the Linux distribution maker best known for the Ubuntu Linux desktop operating system, has taken the wraps off a new release of the server edition of its product.

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  • Ubuntu coming soon to Sun's Niagara

    Canonical will support Sun Microsystems' Niagara servers with the upcoming release of its Ubuntu Linux distribution, the companies are preparing to announce.

  • Linux: Who got it right, who got it very wrong?

    Who predicted Linux servers would outnumber Windows servers by 2006? Who said one in five enterprise desktops would be Linux-based by 2008? We look back at the bad (and good) predictions made about Linux over the past decade.

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