www.erlewein.net » virtualization http://www.erlewein.net Wed, 01 Sep 2010 03:46:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Ubuntu 9.04 coming to a PC near you…soon http://www.erlewein.net/2009/ubuntu-904-coming-to-a-pc-near-yousoon/ http://www.erlewein.net/2009/ubuntu-904-coming-to-a-pc-near-yousoon/#comments Fri, 27 Mar 2009 04:21:37 +0000 Oliver Erlewein http://www.erlewein.net/?p=557

Ubuntu 9.04 is just around the corner. The official Beta was launched today. Lots of new stuff. One thing fascinates me very much and that is the Amazon EC2 compatible cloud computing option (Eucalyptus). That has the potential of revolutionising the datacentre. Can’t wait to migrate one of our old 19″ boxes…

Other cool features are the new messaging mode for the desktop and the inclusion of the Ext4 file system.

So 9.04 is something definitely worth looking out for. Oh and also have a look at the Amazon EC2 beta program. There’s still people wanted for that (http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/serveredition/features/ec2).

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For me that was always the critical issue with VirtualBox. At work I use VMwae for most of my stuff and on my Ubuntu box I use VirtualBox. So I could never use the same VMs. Now I can! How cool ist that?! So for all those not happy with VMware Player or the VMware Server 2.x here’s your answer. I’d probably also say now that VirtualBox does snaphots too there’s no big reason for going VMware Fusion or Parallels.

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  • 64-bit support on 32-bit guest OSes (not so hot for me)
  • 3D support (getting warmer)
  • Better Windows (who cares?!) and Linux networking support doing away with the manual TAP drivers (***YAY***!!!!!)
  • Snapshots (***YAY***!!!!!)
  • More speed (was it ever slow?! Ok, if they want to go even faster I won’t complain)
  • Much, much more….

So go along and update. I’m sure it’s worth it. I’ll be trying it on my Ubuntu box once I get back to work….

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