“With the new Starfire, Sun is offering the capability to
take one or more of the 16 available partitions and have it loaded
with the Linux operating system-an almost-free competitor to Sun’s
proprietary Solaris operating system that runs on the Starfire
servers, Enns said.“
“This option also is available for the units that provide eight
partitions, which already are available. However, a limited number
of accounts have taken advantage of the capability to load and run
Linux on the high-end Sun machines, he said.”
“I know there are not that many [accounts] doing that,” Enns
said. “Starfire is really a data-center-class system. It’s not
where you tend to find Linux.”