Gé Weijers wrote:
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Fernando Cassia fcassia@gmail.com wrote:
Sun JDS Linux was damn good (included Java and StarOffice preloaded, and a cool Gnome theme).
I used (purchased!) both JDS Linux 2003 and JDS Linux R2. JDS Linux R3 was in beta by the time the Solaris militia won the internal battle / turf war and JDS Linux was canceled.
A lack of paying customers had something to do with that too :-( I remember debugging bootstrap loader issues on JDS.
Disclosure: I worked for Sun from 2000-2005, mostly on Linux-related stuff, e.g. http://sosc-dr.sun.com/blueprints/1103/817-4403.pdf It was a great company to work for while it lasted.
The first time I was doing sysadmin work was on a sparcserver, back in '95-'97, and I really, really liked that box. I agree, it was a real shame.
Btw, back when I was working on it, we ran into an error message that *no* one has ever heard of before: we had a ton of young consultants, coding, testing and debugging 12-16 hrs/day, and if a debug session hung, they just killed the window. (They were on PCs running...mmm, I can't remember if we were on Win 3 or NT, but we were using Hummingbird.) Late one night, with a ton of zombies, another guy and I spent nearly an hour killing zombies (which we could actually do), because in their debugging sessions, they saw an error message that read "spider message" (and I forget the rest of it).
Ever heard of anything like it?
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