This past weekend, I attended the 2010 Los Angeles Auto Show. I’m not a huge car buff. I do think that BMW’s are the bomb, and I like Honda’s common sense vehicles, but really, I am NOT a car guy. However, I thought this was an interesting chance to take a look at an industry that, in my opinion, isn’t all that different than the one I’m in.
Now, that may surprise some. Its pretty easy to think that I work for a super advanced company that has started a revolution and sits on the bleeding edge of innovation. I mean, at Canonical, we’re doing all kinds of amazing stuff with “the cloud” and building software that makes peoples’ jaw drop when they see it in action sometimes. Read more »
I’ll be attending Puppet Camp in San Francisco tomorrow and Friday. Come say hi if you’ll be there too!
Puppet Camp: Learn More About Open Source Data Center Automation | Puppet Labs.
Seems like eons ago (just under 6 months..) when I joined Canonical, and hopped on a plane headed for Brussels and UDS-Maverick.
What a whirlwind, attending sessions, meeting the real rock stars of the Ubuntu world, and getting to know my super distributed team.
One of the sessions was based on a blueprint for load balancing in the cloud. The idea was that rather than rely on amazon’s Elastic Load Balancer, you could build your own solution that you could possibly even move around between UEC, EC2, or even Rackspace clouds.
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So, this week, Drizzle released its beta, which is really exciting. But at the same time, I decided to ask the Ubuntu MOTU pull it out of Ubuntu 10.10 (a.k.a. maverick) entirely. The reasons, may not be entirely obvious.
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Drizzle7 Beta Released! now with MySQL migration! « LinuxJedis /dev/null.
Drizzle is a project that is near and dear to my heart.
To sum it up, Drizzle took all that was really good in MySQL, cut out all that was mediocre, and replaced some of it with really good stuff. The end product is, I think, something that is leaner, should be more stable, and definitely more flexible.
So go check out the beta! I guess I should use Andrew’s migration tool and see if I can migrate this blog to drizzle. 
Time to give myself a little pat on the back.
Last week I sat down to work for a whole working day on “whatever I wanted to”, as part of the Canonical Server Team’s pilot “Fedex Day” program. Mathias Gug and I both looked at this idea from Dan Pink’s book “Drive” and thought it made sense to try it out.
Management approved, and we set about on a day of “work on one thing, make it go, and then show it off the following week”.
I was originally going to work on improving the search capabilities of the MoinMoin wiki software that we use at Canonical. But it turns out, somebody already did that by adding Xapian support, and so we really just need to backport that to whatever version of Ubuntu canonical’s servers run on.
So, I decided to tackle another issue that has been nagging at me. Read more »
Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS released | The Fridge.
This is pretty cool. I know as a system administrator, I never wanted to run .0 anything. So 10.04 is really like 10.04.0, and means “let somebodye lse find the bugs.”.
Well 10.04.1 means that the more conservative administrators can at least have a reasonable expectation that it will be even more stable than it was on release day in April.
If you’re already running Ubuntu servers, btw, check this out:
http://maps.ubuntu.com
Hit it and be counted as a server user. Pretty amazing how many little orange circles there are all over the world.
For those of you who’ve been telling me that my blog posts sound like “gleep ork boog florg”, a quick primer:
Ubuntu is an operating system, like Mac OS X or Windows (except more awesomer).
10.04 was their April, 2010 release (10 == 2010 04 == april).
LTS means Long Term Support. This means that the people who maintain Ubuntu will support this release for 3 – 5 years (depending on the context.. 3 for desktops, 5 for servers).
10.04.1 is a fixed up release, mainly marking the release of updated CD images for installing. If you install 10.04 and choose automatic updates, you’re already on 10.04.1 before the release.
If you love Ubuntu, and want to help out, join us for Ubuntu Bug Day tomorrow!
