Episode 45 - Cloudy with a chance of conectivity...

Running Time: 49:30

1) Introduction

Joe and Brian Talk about stuff(We love the Narwhals song at this link, Natty is out, PSN is still down, and other off topic stuff)

2) News

Purple Reign - IBM and Red Hat hook up to take on VMWare

Canonical changes it’s cloud strategy...And Linux Mint 11 opts for Gnome 2.x rather than Gnome 3.x/Unity

Fedora and Ubuntu working on Brtfs support may give the ability to do virtualized like snapshots on systems that aren’t virtual...

Google VP says cloud is at the same point E-Mail was in the late 1980's

3) Conclusion

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Fedora and Ubuntu are getting the Butter on our File systems...

Phoronix.com, a great site with an even better preformance test suite, has a nice write up about the often talked about BRTFS(commonly pronounced Butter FS). They mention that Fedora seems to be releasing it with GRUB extenstions to allow for file system snapshot roll-backs by the end of the year and Ubuntu by the 12.04 release next April.  What is so great about this?  Imagine if your favorite Linux Update tool could tell BRTFS to take a snapshot of the state of the file systems every time it did an update.  Then let's imagine that GRUB, our favorite boot-loader, could see that they were al there and give you the options to roll-back to that last know working version.  Wouldn't that just ROCK?  No more worries about not taking snapshots on virtual machines or needing to restore after a bad upgrade on a physical machine.  The time saved will be incredible.  We can't wait for this all to be production ready and standard on all Linux versions.

Fedora and OpenSuse drop dev efforts on Unity....

Thanks to the folks over at ostastic.com for pointing me to the posts from the developers working on Unity on Fedora and OpenSuse.  Both site problems with the upstream developers and seem to be suffering from burn-out.  If you know anyone interested in picking the projects up they both seem willing to turn it over.  The current decision though puts Ubuntu out on their own in adopting Unity.  If you want to test it out you seem to have to use Ubuntu for now.

Application Installers Unite.....

According to this article we found, meetings are starting to happen and people are trying to move towards a common Application Installer. So their could be the end of the "My package manager is better than yours is" debates?  Well it's a bit early to tell but it does sound like the big distros are talking about settling on a common package format.  If they do go forward with this we can only hope that it's adoption moves faster than LSB(Linux Standards Base).  It would definitely go a long way to help adoption of Linux as a platform.  For instance, only seeing one line on download pages like Windows and Mac have would help newbies or people thinking about trying linux be less afraid.  When you can create app stores that only have to carry one type of package they become a lot easier to create.  We here at linuxinstall.net hope that every linux install will get easier over time.

What do you think?  What problems will one package format have?  What hidden benefits are there?  What hidden problems?