Ubuntu 11.10 Will Feature ARM Support, Ships Soon
A new version of Canonical's Ubuntu Linux distribution will be released next week and feature support for ARM architecture.
This week during the OpenStack conference in Boston, Canonical CEO Jane Silber revealed several new features that will be included in the next version of the company's Ubuntu Linux distribution, Ubuntu 11.10. She also announced that both the desktop and the server editions will be released next Thursday, October 13.
According to Silber, Ubuntu 11.10 will arrive with support for ARM architecture, a new cloud service orchestration engine called JuJu, and the latest OpenStack cloud software called Diablo. But Silber also warned a captive audience during her presentation that the ARM version of Ubuntu is not completely polished.
"I know none of you are building your cloud on ARM architecture yet, but its a very promising architecture, and we're very proud to be working with the leaders in that part of the ecosystem to bring that new capability to the open source world first. It's a significant move," she said.
Silber also explained JuJu during her presentation: open source software developed by Canonical that can be used to automate the start-up and shutting down of cloud services running on OpenStack. She said that JuJu allows administrators to package all the routine actions that need to be taken to spin up a job on the machine.
"Think of services like [software] packages," Silber said. "On Ubuntu, ask for a package and it is there, You remove it and its gone. Services are the same way. When you ask for a service it is there, when you remove it, it is gone."
PC Advisor reports that Canonical also showcased on the show floor a server it hand-assembled that ran on an ARM processor.
F*** off with your "cloud". I'm not building any "clouds"... I hate it when Canonical jumps on the hype train and starts spreading the same BS like everyone else.
My computer could run it fine, I just didn't like it.
I installed Ubuntu on my computer to test it out, see what it was all about (dual booted) and got right into learning the considerably different UI setup.
Basically had it ironed out and then installed the update (along with proper drivers for my GFX card) and was immediately taken aback. Didn't have a clue how to customize the little launch bar (its placement or its icons) so I just switched back as soon as I figured out how.
Then you most likely have an hardware problem. I have an old Pentium M 1.6GHz with the awful integrated extreme graphics 2, no dedicated GPU, and it runs really well, way faster than XP.
I'm really not sure that a hot hard drive is a bad thing.
http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2007/02/8917.ars
"The researchers also found that drive failures did not increase with high temperatures or CPU utilization. In fact, they say, lower average temperatures actually correlate more strongly with failure. Only at 'very high temperatures' does this change."
The fact that it is Wubi actually could be part of it, but it seems unlikely that Ubuntu would heat up a drive any more than another OS, but I'm no expert.
Wow, I quoted the wrong person. My bad.
I'm really not sure that a hot hard drive is a bad thing.
http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2007/02/8917.ars
"The researchers also found that drive failures did not increase with high temperatures or CPU utilization. In fact, they say, lower average temperatures actually correlate more strongly with failure. Only at 'very high temperatures' does this change."
The fact that it is Wubi actually could be part of it, but it seems unlikely that Ubuntu would heat up a drive any more than another OS, but I'm no expert.
And to the comment above me, there is NO air for tempature to matter in a hard drive. They are VACUUM sealed so even if it gets hot or cold, the platters and heads could care less
Air is not needed for temperature. Surely you realize this? Heat can transfer via conduction, so even if your hard drive is vacuum sealed, heat can transfer very effectively through the metal casing and into the metal interior. Air is a very inefficient way of heating things up by comparison to metal. If that heat causes expansion, the platters and heads can care very much.