“… we’re keeping our support focused on distributors, not on
the Linux community at large. Our goal is more to enable their
business.” said Robert Novak, Sun’s group manager for Power
Workstations.
Much of the cooperative hardware-software support is dedicated
to allowing Solaris and Linux to dual-boot on the same box, Novak
said.
See also the related Linux Today December 4, 1998, story
Sun
Microsystems to Support Linux O/S on its Hardware, reports Computer
Reseller News.