All Posts Tagged With: "OS"
Ubuntu Releases “Hardy Heron”, OS Version 8.04 In Beta
After four Alpha releases, Ubuntu has now released version 8.04 of the popular Operating System, code-named “Hardy Heron”. Apart from the boat load of new features, KVM is now officially maintained within the kernel. Also, libvirt and virt-manager have been integrated in Ubuntu.
21Mar2008 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | ContinuedLooking Back At A Decade of Open Source Virtualization
A deep dive into the history of open source virtualization, its key players and forgotten protagonists from the early days.
10Mar2008 | Kris Buytaert | 3 comments | ContinuedPreinstalled Hypervisors And The Future of Operating Systems
Jay Lyman from the 451 Group wonders about the future of the Linux Distributions in the Virtualization arena.
5Mar2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | ContinuedA Look At Cloudo, Another Attempt To Popularize The WebOS
Recently, a new web-based operating systems (WebOS) launched its private beta suite in another attempt to bring the desktop to the browser. Its name is Cloudo, it was made in Sweden and it was previously a part of Xindesk which has now separated itself into two entities, the other being an open widget platform dubbed WidgetPlus.
22Feb2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedNext Microsoft Virtual Server slips to 2007
Microsoft has delayed an update for Microsoft Virtual Server until early 2007.
Reported by Stephen Shankland at Cnet News.Com in an interview with James Ni, group product manager for server virtualization at Microsoft.
“ The Service Pack 1 update to Virtual Server 2005 R2 will include support for two chip features, Intel’s Virtualization and Advanced Micro Devices’ Virtualization, that ease [...]
Microsoft Longhorn Datacenter Server will have no virtualization licensing costs
Today virtualization is expensive for licensing. Microsoft asks people to license every OS installed on virtual machines, even if powered off. But something is changing.
Since the release of Windows Server 2003 R2 Microsoft started approaching a per-use licensing model instead of a per-installation model. So that now Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition owners can [...]
