This week marks the real start to the development cycle for Ubuntu’s 9.10 release called Karmic Koala. The Ubuntu Developer’s Summit is being held in Barcelona this year, and is now in full swing. A lot of interesting blueprints have been uploaded to Canonical’s Launchpad service. Let’s see what kind of topics the Ubuntu folks are discussing for this release.
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Karmic Koala Blueprints
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Over the last couple of weeks I’ve updated my two main systems from Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex to Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope. One of the pieces of software I install on both machines is VMWare Server 6.5. However, in Jaunty the installation is a little more than simply sudo-ing the installer script.
Quickly, here’s how to install VMWare Server 6.5 on a Jaunty machine. I’m not sure if its any different for 32-bit, but I run 64-bit.
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Install VMWare Server 6.5.
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Install the build-essential package from the apt repo. "sudo aptitude install build-essential"
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Backup the binary modules. "sudo mv /usr/lib/vmware/modules/binary /usr/lib/vmware/modules/binary.old"
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Recompile the binary modules with available kernel headers. "sudo vmware-modconfig --console --install-all"
That’s it. VMWare Server 6.5 should now start and you can load up your virtual machines and get computing. Enjoy.
Thoughts on Jaunty Jackalope
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On Monday September 8th 2008, Mark Shuttleworth, the lead Ubuntero behind one of the most popular Linux distributions yet introduced some goals for the April 2009 release titled Jaunty Jackalope. Shuttleworth summed up two big points: faster boot time and cloud computing with ‘weblications.’
Online Ubuntu Services
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Overview:
Provide the following services to Ubuntu users via a SSO method such as OpenID:
Hardware Submission
Configuration Settings per application
Bookmarks (Firefox, Konqueror, Epiphany, etc)
Bug Submissions
Brainstorm Ideas
Hardy Heron blueprints
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Canonical’s next version of its widely popular Ubuntu Linux operating system, codenamed Hardy Heron, will be version 8.04 and will feature Long Term Support. Ubuntu has been, for the last few years, striving to create an operating system that is a free and easy to use alternative to Windows.
One of Canonical’s services, Launchpad is a community site dedicated to bug tracking, feature requests, and package building. Its a novel approach to having one interface for the many different types of developers that help put Ubuntu together.
One feature of Launchpad, the blueprints area, is a place both developers and the avid Ubuntu user can go and request features to the point of actually specifying details on how they think the feature should be implemented. For Hardy Heron, there are currently 6 “Essential” features, 10 “High Priority” features, 18 “Medium Priority” features, 9 “Low Priority” features, and 1 undefined priority feature.
I’d like to discuss the features that I think are quite important, or just plain cool, that are in the pipe for the next version of Ubuntu, Hardy Heron 8.04 LTS.
