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Episode 63 - To V or not to V that is the OpenStack question...

Linux the Happy Penguin — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:42:05 +0000

Check out this weeks episode when we talk about Linux Cinomon, Whether Open stack can and should stop supporting hyperV, and more

OpenStack my drop Hyper-V support...

Linux the Happy Penguin — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:37:10 +0000

In a move to pressure a founding member to start pulling their weight the OpenStack team is considering pulling support for Microsoft's Hyper-V. The developers are supposedly calling the Hyper-V code old and slow moving. We saw the report from this article on computerworld.uk.

Should they drop support? Will this convince Microsoft to keep up with their commitments? Let us know what you think in the comments.

Is this the begining of the end for Operating Systems?

Linux the Happy Penguin — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:09:57 +0000

ITWorld tries to imply that stand alone boxes of Liunx may disappear becuase Mandrake is having problems. While we at linuxinstall.net would miss it the economics are understandable. The Mandrake team has been struggling for some time. This distro was one of the first Desktop Focused Distrobutions. It really hasn't kept pace with competitors like Ubuntu and Mint but it still works for most things.

Debian is King of the World....

Linux the Happy Penguin — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:04:04 +0000

Well at least some people would like to say they are king of the Linux Distrobutions. While we are sure they have a lead in the desktop arena thanks in part to Mint and Ubuntu, it's nearly impossible to tell. Since you don't have to register any of the Distrobutions it's really hard do to a full compairsion.

What do you think? Let us know in the comments below.

Redhat will now support releases for 10 years....

Linux the Happy Penguin — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:57:43 +0000

serverwatch.com noted that Redhat has now extended the time it will support releases from five years to ten years. This is great news for companies that can't afford to keep updating internal software at a faster pace. Though the support cycle also means that support versions will have to keep that in mind when releasing software. This combined with advances in virtualization mean that we can keep running software for even longer with out updating it. Wait is that a good thing? Well it's a mixed blessing but proves again that Linux has supporters that are listening to their customers unlike their counterparts that create the closed source OS's.

Linux Kernel Master leaves SUSE for the Linux Foundation..

Linux the Happy Penguin — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:48:38 +0000

Arstechnica posted that Greg Kroah-Hartman, maintainer of the Linux kernel's stable branch and the Linux driver project, is leaving SUSE to join the Linux Foundation. We think it's awesome to see. That the Linux foundation attracting such great talent is wonderful news. Giving them the opportunity to create without even the appearance of being influenced by a single corporate interest. Congratulations to both Mr. Kroah-Hartman and the Linux Foundation.

Do you know what it takes to roll your own cloud?

Linux the Happy Penguin — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:33:19 +0000

Check out this cool presentation at the Linuxconf.au about creating your own cloud. In a little less than an hour they get you the broad strokes of what it takes.

The description from blip.tv says it like this:

"A technical introduction to building a fully open source, hardware neutral, robust and efficient Enterprise Cloud. We present how to combine KVM, Libvirt, and the Pacemaker cluster manager to create feature-rich yet simple high availability for virtual machines. We then expand that concept to include shared-nothing and potentially split-site storage replication with DRBD. Finally, we demonstrate how to move to large enterprise configurations with large multiple-node clusters to provide highly scalable and flexible cloud computing capability. The Linux Cluster stack, now in its third evolutionary iteration, makes an excellent basis for high availability on the Linux platform. The Pacemaker cluster manager is a highly flexible and feature-rich cluster resource management application. It currently interfaces with over 70 different server applications, Libvirt-based virtualization and iSCSI target services being just two of them. In this presentation, we will show how to build simple, yet fully redundant, replicated high availability cluster based on these components. We than gradually expand this concept to include scale-out to multiple cluster nodes, full live migration of virtual machines, and also centralized storage administration -- in other words, true enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure. We focus exclusively on solutions that build on commercial, off-the shelf hardware and 100% open source technology. Tim Serong, Melbourne-based Senior Clustering Engineer at Novell, will co-present."

Can Kubuntu survive a loss in funding?

Brian "Wags" Wagner — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:05:26 +0000

According to a post by Jonathan Riddle over on the KDE Blog, Canonical is going to be pulling it's finical support of the KDE inspired version of Ubuntu after the release of 12.04. Jonathan does a great job explaining the business reasons behind the decision to pull the support after seven years. He goes on to ponder the future of Kubuntu. He is looking for both support and feedback about the direction he should take. Since he has to eat and live without the support he was getting he will need to work on other things as the majority of his day. So can he find enough people to help him offset that loss of time? Should he re-focus on helping another KDE based Distro? Could he find another company to provide Financial assistance so that he can continue?

Leave a comment here or click on the link above to let Jonathan know how you feel and what direction you would like to see him take. If you are in or know a company that loves KDE why not see if you can help to support his efforts. Let's show him where the community can take him and Kubuntu.

Ever want to know a secert....

Brian "Wags" Wagner — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:16:29 +0000

How about one about a secert corporate data center. How about how they designed the Google datacenters? Well check out this article and the book it is promoting called "The DataCenter as a Computer" which sarts to answer the questions around how and why Google did what it did with those resources. All in all the article over at wired online magazine is pretty cool.

Ubuntu backs off dumping Oracles Version of Java...

Brian "Wags" Wagner — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:11:59 +0000

In a not to surprising move Canonical has backed off it's earlier stance to drop the Oracle version of Java from it's distrobution Ubuntu. They were attempting to do the free and opensource thing and use OpenJDK instead. The problem with that is that not all of the Java Application servers support it let alone small Java apps. The differences aren't that commonly found but when they are they are extremely hard to trouble shoot. We are glad to see them choose the practical approach rather than a hard line stance that would have hurt functionality of the platform.