From: "Adam Flinton" 

BTW

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,981353,00.asp

Score 1 for cloning:

" "Yes, this is a change in strategy. Our Sun Linux distribution
is essentially Red Hat Linux with a few minor tweaks," John Loiacono,
vice president of Sun's operating platforms group, told reporters at a
"town hall" meeting in San Francisco Friday morning. "But
our customers told us they didn't want a standard distribution that had
some tweaks, so I decided to fix the problem by simply supporting between
two and four standard Linux distributions, though I have not as yet decided
which these will be. "

Choice is good. Even within / between linux'es  http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/30005.html
>
> Suse & Red Hat might end up as competition (much as MS ended up as
> competition to IBM).
>
> So bundle mandrake. I think they have managed to get it running on opteron
> but i might be wrong....course would Sun want to run Mandrake on Opteron
> with a sun badge?
>
> Adam
>
>

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