Coté has an interesting post here about Sun’s news of their support for Ubuntu.

Ubuntu on UltraSPARC

“…this will be gravy: getting to run your pet OS at work is always a treat.”

I run ubuntu as my desktop, and I more than pleased with it, occasionally I have to wander back into the world of Windows, but never stay very long. It is beginning to feel more and more alien to me. In terms of getting stuff done, and have the control of how its done, is what I like most about it. In general it has so many features that make it so much more useful to me. Saying that, it also room for improvement, so I am eagerly awaiting the advent of dapper (and on that note, this is handy

Sean and Damian would probably both agree to this!

How cool would that be if a commercial company decided to ignore NIH and just pulled in existing package management?

R