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Canonical to Support Sun Fire Servers With UltraSPARC T1 Processor

Sun Microsystems Inc. and Canonical Ltd. has announced that Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Long Term Support), the upcoming release of the widely popular GNU/Linux distribution, will support the UltraSPARC T1 processor on Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers.

"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, executive vice-president, Systems, Sun Microsystems.

"The availability of both Solaris and Linux-based operating systems on the Niagara platform will further expand our lead in delivering chip multi-threaded innovation and choice to customers."

"There has been a vibrant community working with Ubuntu on SPARC for some time. Given the broadening of our offering from desktops to servers, and the power and promise of CoolThreads servers, official support for SPARC was a natural fit with our upcoming enterprise-ready release of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS," said Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu. Ubuntu 6.06 LTS is due to be released at the beginning of June 2006.

The next release of Ubuntu, version 6.06 LTS, will include a server edition with an extended support period to meet the needs of enterprise customers, independent software and hardware vendors (ISVs and IHVs.) With the release of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, SPARC will become one of Ubuntu's officially supported server architectures.

Ubuntu is available free of charge and includes free security updates for all officially supported architectures. Ubuntu 6.06 LTS server support will be available for a period of five years. Canonical will also offer technical support for SPARC-based systems on a paid, commercial basis.

The Sun Fire T1000 server starts at USD 2,995 and the Sun Fire T2000 Server at USD 7,795.


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