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Re: Clouds in the Forecast, Too Few Teapots, Much Ado About Ubuntu One
Posted by: Katherine Noyes 2009-05-22 05:49:27
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The launch of Ubuntu One into beta not long ago has sparked a virtual tempest of debate about clouds -- cloud computing, that is, and where Linux fits into it all. Ubuntu has already figured prominently in the news of late, both for Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth's recent assertion that Linux doesn't need Wine -- causing a small gale of controversy in and of itself -- and for the even more shocking news that emerged shortly thereafter indicating that the Ubuntu logo had been stolen!
Clouds in the Forecast, Too Few Teapots, Much Ado About Ubuntu One
Posted by: Adler 2009-05-24 18:22:08 In reply to: Katherine Noyes
Hi,
I've yet to figure Ubuntu One out. I've been running Linux forever, and had originally thought I might be able to access my PC from anywhere.
I've got it, but my Home Folder is well over some type of 2Gb free limit. Oh, I do run Ubuntu Jaunty.
This "one" is still trying to figure out. Do I do an OS from the cloud or files?
I'm not sure what the utility is here.
Confused and puzzled here in Phoenix, Arizona.
I've yet to figure Ubuntu One out. I've been running Linux forever, and had originally thought I might be able to access my PC from anywhere.
I've got it, but my Home Folder is well over some type of 2Gb free limit. Oh, I do run Ubuntu Jaunty.
This "one" is still trying to figure out. Do I do an OS from the cloud or files?
I'm not sure what the utility is here.
Confused and puzzled here in Phoenix, Arizona.
"In Linux, servers have always been the focus, and support for the desktop has always been an afterthought."
HAHAHA!!! There are stand-up comics here. GNU was and always has been about general-purpose computing. Linux started out as Linus' desktop OS. GNU/Linux did not incorporate a server until much later.
Linus' announcement made no mention of "server"
"I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) among other things)."
Minix which Linux mimicked was a PC OS. In those days PCs were not servers...
Recently, Linus, the dictator of patch selection for Linux, wrote/said this:
"To me, Linux on the desktop has always been the most interesting goal. The primary reason for that is simply that it’s always been what I want (I’ve never wanted a server OS-I started out writing Linux for my own PC, not to be some file server), but also because all the interesting problems always end up being about desktop uses…."
see http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7313/1.html
That said about history, I have recently installed a GNU/Linux terminal server. It is a beige box PC like many used on desks, with GNU/Linux running LAMP and up to 24 desktop sessions. Users get a web server with scripts and databases running on localhost giving them almost no perceptible network delay. It snaps content at them. Is it a server or a desktop machine? Who knows? Who cares? GNU/Linux is great at both roles. It can combine both roles. No afterthoughts about it.
HAHAHA!!! There are stand-up comics here. GNU was and always has been about general-purpose computing. Linux started out as Linus' desktop OS. GNU/Linux did not incorporate a server until much later.
Linus' announcement made no mention of "server"
"I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) among other things)."
Minix which Linux mimicked was a PC OS. In those days PCs were not servers...
Recently, Linus, the dictator of patch selection for Linux, wrote/said this:
"To me, Linux on the desktop has always been the most interesting goal. The primary reason for that is simply that it’s always been what I want (I’ve never wanted a server OS-I started out writing Linux for my own PC, not to be some file server), but also because all the interesting problems always end up being about desktop uses…."
see http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7313/1.html
That said about history, I have recently installed a GNU/Linux terminal server. It is a beige box PC like many used on desks, with GNU/Linux running LAMP and up to 24 desktop sessions. Users get a web server with scripts and databases running on localhost giving them almost no perceptible network delay. It snaps content at them. Is it a server or a desktop machine? Who knows? Who cares? GNU/Linux is great at both roles. It can combine both roles. No afterthoughts about it.
