Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth has announced Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala.

Ubuntu
The next major release Ubuntu version 9.04, codenamed Jaunty Jackalope is moving towards feature freeze and is scheduled for launch in April. Ubuntu 9.10, which will be the next release after Jaunty, is planned for October.

Server

A good Koala knows how to see the wood for the trees, even when her head is in the clouds. Ubuntu aims to keep free software at the forefront of cloud computing by embracing the API’s of Amazon EC2, and making it easy for anybody to setup their own cloud using entirely open tools. We’re currently in beta with official Ubuntu base AMI’s for use on Amazon EC2. During the Karmic cycle we want to make it easy to deploy applications into the cloud, with ready-to-run appliances or by quickly assembling a custom image. Ubuntu-vmbuilder makes it easy to create a custom AMI today, but a portfolio of standard image profiles will allow easier collaboration between people doing similar things on EC2. Wouldn’t it be apt for Ubuntu to make the Amazon jungle as easy to navigate as, say, APT?

Desktop

First impressions count. We’re eagerly following the development of kernel mode setting, which promises a smooth and flicker-free startup. We’ll consider options like Red Hat’s Plymouth, for graphical boot on all the cards that support it. We made a splash years ago with Usplash, but it’s time to move to something newer and shinier. So the good news is, boot will be beautiful. The bad news is, you won’t have long to appreciate it! It only takes 35 days to make a whole Koala, so we think it should be possible to bring up a stylish desktop much faster. The goal for Jaunty on a netbook is 25 seconds, so let’s see how much faster we can get you all the way to a Koala desktop. We’re also hoping to deliver a new login experience that complements the graphical boot, and works well for small groups as well as very large installations.

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February 21, 2009 · Filed Under Open Source

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Interesting about Google Suggest

Interesting about Google Suggest.

Google Suggest - Google

Type ‘google‘ on http://www.google.com, look at the result and it is not based on alphabets. I guess Google Maps is their main focus which show on first result.

Google $

Follow by what? Of course $ but Google have no clue and no suggestion for me.

Google Money
Again, I will focus on ‘money’. Look, Google focus on saving which show on no.2. In fact, we know economy is bad now.

What else?

Google Obama
Yeah! Must be Mr. US president – Barack Obama.

Google Yahoo
Sorry Google – Yahoo deal is OFF.

Google Microsoft
Google and Microsoft merge? No ways!

Google Internet
Google Internet? I think Google Suggest make a big mistake here. Why Internet Explorer?

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November 10, 2008 · Filed Under Tips

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VMware Infrastructure 3.5 Update 2 have been released

VMware have been released the Update 2 for ESX (build 103908) and VirtualCenter (104215).

This new version brings a number of important features including:

  • Cross-processors VMotion (auto-configuration of AMD-V Extended Migration and Intel FlexMigration)
  • Virtual machines live snapshot through Microsoft Volume Shadow Service (VSS) (only Windows 2003 and 2008 guest OSes)
  • Virtual machines live cloning
  • Virtual disks hot-extension (only for flat disks without snapshots in persistent mode)
  • VMware HA support for individual virtual machines
  • VirtualCenter alarms for physical servers health (single components supported)
  • Manual computers addition in Guided Consolidation (by hostname or IP)
  • Single Sign-On (SSO) on VirtualCenter client (capability to pass-through Windows authentication credentials, with support for smartcards and digital certificates)
  • Support for Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Sun Solaris 10 U5, Novell SLES 10 SP2 and Ubuntu 8.04 guest OSes
  • Support for 8GB Fibre Channel HBAs
  • Support for NFS and iSCSI over 10Gbit Ethernet
  • Support for Remote Command Line Interface (CLI) (no more experimental)
  • 192 vCPUs per host – VMware now supports increasing the maximum number of vCPUs per host 192 given that the maximum number of Virtual Machines per host is 170 and that no more than 3 virtual floppy devices or virtual CDROM devices are configured on the host at any given time. This support is extended on ESX 3.5 Update 1 as well.

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July 28, 2008 · Filed Under VMware

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How to customize Terminal Server Client(tsclient) specified screen size?

rdesktop is an open source client for Windows Terminal Services, capable of natively speaking Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in order to present the user’s Windows desktop. The rdesktop supported servers include Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows NT Server 4.0.

The rdesktop currently runs on most UNIX based platforms with the X Window System, and other ports should be fairly straightforward.

I have an Ubuntu Hardy x64 running on my Dell desktop and another Dell laptop running Windows XP Professional with screen resolution 1152 x 1024.

How to launch rdesktop on Ubuntu Hardy?
Click Applications -> click Internet -> click Terminal Server Client(tsclient).

Enter computer name or IP address, select RDP protocol, enter username & password, and click open. Basically you should be able to connect to your remote desktop computer or server.

If you click on Display, and click use specified screen size, then you should be able to see default Specified Screen Size as below:
640 x 480
800 x 600
1024 x 768
1152 x 864
1280 x 960
1400 x 1250

What happen if I need to have different screen size? Don’t worry! You can use a command line
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July 14, 2008 · Filed Under How's To, Open Source, Tips

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VMware Workstation 6.5 Beta Open for Public Download

VMware just posted about VMware Workstation 6.5 Beta, Build 84113 open for public download. This might be a point five release but it will ship with the “Unity” feature that allows you to “hide” the desktop and show just the virtual guest’s applications on top of the hosts desktop. So we can call it “seamless virtual windows”.

VMware Workstation 6.5 Beta previews the following new features:

  • Use Unity to integrate your guest apps with your host

  • More Powerful VM Record and Replay

  • Support for Smart Cards & Smart Card Readers

  • Enhanced ACE Authoring

  • Link State Propagation Networking

  • Improved 3D graphics Support

VMware Workstation 6.5 Beta supports the following Operating Systems:

  • VMware Workstation 6.5 Beta for Windows (32-bit and 64-bit)

  • VMware Workstation 6.5 Beta for Linux (32-bit)

  • VMware Workstation 6.5 Beta for Linux (64-bit)

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April 4, 2008 · Filed Under VMware

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