It's announced to happen today, but it hasn't happened yet so it seems... So we're still waiting for the big world-wide mayor download feast to start.

Anyway, it got me thinking about way back how this debian peep talked about this other guy that was running this new linux distro. For some reason, that was enough to get me into it. Which means I've been going through the warty-hoary-breezy sequence up to now: patiently awaiting dapper.

The big pre-release-news posted on the ubuntu-fridge this morning is about ubuntu running on Sun's hardware. Unsure what Steven is yet to think about this in terms of practical administration of this new box, but this surely means it could be running an apt-aware OS. {/me thinking 'hoho, now I have a machine-gun (Die Hard)}

For the mere mortals amongst us there is a far more important outcome of this canocial-ubuntu-sun-sparc courtship: A page like this reads as apt-get install sun-java5-jdk. Sweet.