Sun Microsystems' branded Linux distribution has been extinguished before it ever even caught a light.

The company will go with "standard distributions" instead. Sun refused to utter the words Red Hat and SuSE, but we are quite sure those are the "standard distributions" which it intends to offer on 32-bit hardware.

Interestingly, John Loiacono, vice president of operating platforms at Sun said that the company now defines the ELC (Enterprise Linux Client) as "software" rather than "hardware". A hint that Sun really, really doesn't want to be in the box-shifting business when the Client launches in the middle of this year.

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