Sunbuntu
I have always wanted to
"coin" a phrase.
Its not really fair that lots of other people get to invent phrases that become
entrenched in society, and I don't.
So when the other day when
Sun
and
Ubuntu made their affections clear to
each other, I thought to myself "
what a great opportunity to coin the
phrase Sunbuntu!".
Alas
someone
had already beaten me to it. Anyway, as far as the Sunbuntu
relationship goes, it's interesting to read about how this might
ultimately hurt Red Hat and how fast these new Niagra servers will be
running Ubuntu but I think it might also
help
gnusolaris a great deal
as it is already based on Ubuntu.
I attempted this afternoon to reinstall gnusolaris but this time using only half
the drive and saving the other half for Debian. This didn't work out so well,
the installer recognizes the hard drive, but not my two partitions, so I had to
do the manual partitioning thing which went from ok, to bad to worse until I
accepted defeat and let it use the whole disc again.
On the plus side they've added 1400 more packages since we last talked so that's
a pretty big jump. I will also skip the Nvidia driver this time around as I
only play on 3d game and not on this laptop, so I don't really need it.
Wireless is now my next hurdle.
Some believe that usage of to coin in this fashion is actually an error,
believing instead that it should be to quoin. This term is a printer's term
meaning to secure a block of type with a quoin, or metal wedge. So to quoin a
phrase is to set it into type or make it permanent. But quoin is simply a
spelling variant of coin that is primarily used in this specialized printing
sense. The sense meaning to create is invariably spelled coin.
(source)