One of my bbs users has been paging me a lot to discuss the Maximus bbs software, which is being ported to linux. He used to run a 36 line Maximus BBS running on OS/2 machines in Australia.
Tonight I found out he runs a linux consulting company helping companies get set up with Linux servers, training individuals and groups, and helping with maintenance. He tells me that the trend in the Linux world appears to be towards debian based distributions such as Ubuntu, since RedHat does not support desktops anymore.
A few months ago when I bought a laptop, I decided on SuSE 10 since it uses an RPM based package manager. I like RPMs because when I want to download someone's program that isn't already available in my package manager, there is often an RPM available for it. At the time I think Ubuntu was the #1 most popular distro, and SuSE was #2.
This guy says Ubuntu and Debian based distros are the future. Sun is a supporter of Ubuntu and sells it on their servers. James from work uses it, and some other people I know. I'm now thinking when my new servers arrive and I set up Solaris 10 on them, I will wipe my laptop and put Ubuntu on it. SuSE works great and the switch is almost pointless for me.. but while I'm installing OS's on two other computers I might just do the laptop to make myself happy. Plus this will be a good opportunity to get Vista Beta 2 installed on the other hard drive before installing Ubuntu so I can get GRUB booting both OS's properly.
Here is a quote from LinuxWorld : "Ubuntu is arguably one of the most important -- if not the most important -- GNU/Linux distribution on the planet and will soon blaze new trails in support for SPARC-based servers," said John Fowler, Sun's executive vice president of systems in a statement
Working from his home office in Toronto,
Ryan de Laplante can be found developing software in
Java by day, and obsessing with technology by night.
Ryan has been designing and writing software for
IJW since 1998 and is very passionate about his work.
