Sun Microsystems Inc. and Canonical Ltd. announced that the new release of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Long Term Support), aka Dapper Drake, will be supporting the UltraSPARC T1 processor on Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers.

For Canonical, this represents a leap into the high-end datacenter server market. While Ubuntu is extremely popular with Linux enthusiasts and on the desktop, it has not been well known as either a commercial or server distribution.

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Recently, however, Ubuntu, through Canonical, has been embracing the business world.

"Ubuntu is arguably one of the most important — if not the most important — GNU/Linux distribution on the planet and will soon blaze new trails in support for SPARC-based servers," said John Fowler, Sun's executive vice president of systems in a statement.

"There has been a vibrant community working with Ubuntu on SPARC for some time. Given the broadening of our offering from desktops to servers, and the power and promise of CoolThreads servers, official support for SPARC was a natural fit with our upcoming enterprise-ready release of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS," added Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu.

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