Sunday, February 22nd 2009
Ubuntu 9.10 Codenamed ''Karmic Koala'', Eying Cloud-Computing and Netbooks
Ubuntu's contribution to propagating Linux to the client platforms (general desktop/notebook) is invaluable. Its developers are known to codename major builds of the OS after animals. An upcoming version, 9.10 has been codenamed "Karmic Koala", after the cute and cuddly animal from south-east Australia. Going by Ubuntu's six-month development cycle, 9.10 should follow 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope" slated for this April, and should be coming out by October.
The new client-version is expected to be netbook-friendly, with having significantly lower boot times. The target booting time for 9.04 is 25 seconds, while the developers hope to improve that figure further with 9.10. The developers will be integrating features from Intel's Moblin platform in order to improve performance on Atom-based devices. The Server Edition based on Ubuntu, which is steadily gaining in adoption, yet lagging behind offerings from market heavyweights such as Red Hat and Novell, will also get its share of improvements, one of the most important of them being enhanced support for cloud-computing.
While cloud-computing serves as a good business idea for companies handling client-side products, it serves as an equally good idea for companies handling servers, a crucial unit in the client-computing model. Part of the plan is to create a set of standard Ubuntu Server Amazon Machine Image (AMI) profiles that will provide a starting point for creating specialized images, simplifying deployment of Ubuntu on Amazon's EC2 platform. Support for Eucalyptus, an open source framework for implementing a self-hosted elastic computing cluster, will also be integrated in the server variant. The Eucalyptus project, which is developed by UCSB, will enable organizations to get many of the advantages of elastic computing in their own data-centers, including the ability to scale down power consumption when load is low.
Canonical, the organisation behind Ubuntu, will use the upcoming Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) taking place in Barcelona in May for further planning and development of Karmic Koala.
Source:
Ars Technica
The new client-version is expected to be netbook-friendly, with having significantly lower boot times. The target booting time for 9.04 is 25 seconds, while the developers hope to improve that figure further with 9.10. The developers will be integrating features from Intel's Moblin platform in order to improve performance on Atom-based devices. The Server Edition based on Ubuntu, which is steadily gaining in adoption, yet lagging behind offerings from market heavyweights such as Red Hat and Novell, will also get its share of improvements, one of the most important of them being enhanced support for cloud-computing.
While cloud-computing serves as a good business idea for companies handling client-side products, it serves as an equally good idea for companies handling servers, a crucial unit in the client-computing model. Part of the plan is to create a set of standard Ubuntu Server Amazon Machine Image (AMI) profiles that will provide a starting point for creating specialized images, simplifying deployment of Ubuntu on Amazon's EC2 platform. Support for Eucalyptus, an open source framework for implementing a self-hosted elastic computing cluster, will also be integrated in the server variant. The Eucalyptus project, which is developed by UCSB, will enable organizations to get many of the advantages of elastic computing in their own data-centers, including the ability to scale down power consumption when load is low.
Canonical, the organisation behind Ubuntu, will use the upcoming Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) taking place in Barcelona in May for further planning and development of Karmic Koala.
26 Comments on Ubuntu 9.10 Codenamed ''Karmic Koala'', Eying Cloud-Computing and Netbooks
As for cloud computing and low-end netbooks, Linux is the natural choice and not just because of the obvious overhead issues when compared to Windows alternatives but there are serious licensing issues to be considered. Linux licensing is anywhere from free to extremely cheap and within short time we will see netbooks that cost less than $100. What is Microsoft going to do, offer their operating systems license-free? Not going to happen. And if it does, again, there is what I like to call "standard Windows overhead penalty" that is sure to be a major issue with any netbook maker.
For the naming how about lesbian lady (humans are animals too)
That being said...Could you be a bit more descriptive? I've been installing Ubuntu on computers for years now, and have gotten it to install on everything from late-model Macbooks to early Socket 7 motherboards -- doesn't always run great out of the box (what does?), but it'll at least install.
What was going on that was preventing you from even installing Ubuntu? :confused:
Anyway I'm not looking for a fix and I'm not saying it's a bad OS because it was okay when it worked, but I don't think it brings anything to the table that Fedora or Suse don't have. I guess I've just had weird configurations but Ubuntu as the "Ultimate Noob Friendly Distribution" just hasn't been true for me. I've actually found the other distributions to be just as easy or easier.