Ubuntu gets a new color: Purple — in summary, that article is a tease. While I’m very happy that there’s more java support in Feisty Fawn, I’d have been happier if the title was literal: if the default background was purple instead of brown. One of the biggest complaints I hear about Ubuntu is “what’s with the brown?”, and a release where it wasn’t brown would at least quiet that sentiment for around 6 months.
As for the update: I’m currently running Feisty on my laptop, so I’m updating to the stable release of it. I’m also downloading the iso for the release, since several people were asking for a copy of it. I’ll be updating my desktop to Feisty sometime next week so that I can set up beryl and QEMU for TCF. I’ve got Seamless Virtualization up and working on my laptop, so IE running as a window on my desktop should turn a few heads (I know a certain Flash user is fairly excited about trying it this weekend).
As for the 500 CDs I’m burning for TCF, I’ll be waiting at least a few days to start on that; new releases have a habit of breaking something or other, and I don’t want to be handing out CDs with broken wireless drivers like Edgy had on launch day. However, I’m not seeing rampant panic in the Ubuntu forums, so it looks like we’re probably alright — or people aren’t downloading it fast enough 
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Jonas Bark | 19-Apr-07 at 11:48 am | Permalink
Virtualisation… I read a lot about it. With what programs could this be done?
Is there an easy guide for it?
Does it mean something like Wine but using usual Windows stuff instead of these API things?
Thank you
joe | 19-Apr-07 at 12:32 pm | Permalink
@Jonas,
Basically, there’s two main programs: vmware, which is proprietary, and qemu, which is open source. Unlike wine, which tries to provide the windows API so that you can run windows programs natively, virtualization means virtualizing the whole OS; you run Windows in a window. This means there’s no issue with compatibility with Windows programs; all Windows programs run, because you’re running Windows.
Downsides: it’s slower than running it in Wine or dual-booting. However, if you have a processor that supports virtualization extensions (Intel Core Duo, Athlon x2), Feisty includes a kernel module called KVM (Kernel Virtualization Module), which allows you to run OSes in QEMU in almost real time.
Jonas Bark | 19-Apr-07 at 2:53 pm | Permalink
Many thanks for the explanation, now I understand that.
My socket on the mainboard is too old for dual core processors so this means that real time is not useable for me. But I will try it anyway, not only because it’s being worked for 3D Acceleration for QEMU.
Greets, Jonas
Joe Terranova » Blog Archive » What is Ubuntu? | 19-Apr-07 at 10:23 pm | Permalink
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