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Ubuntu JeOS 7.10 released
The Ubuntu team is happy to announce the first release of Ubuntu JeOS, Ubuntu JeOS 7.10. Pronounced "juice", Ubuntu JeOS (Just Enough Operating System) is an efficient variant of Ubuntu configured specifically for virtual appliances. ISVs looking to develop virtual appliances will have a compelling platform in Ubuntu JeOS, an OS optimised for virtualisation that greatly reduces the complexity and maintenance overhead normally associated with general purpose operating systems. Ubuntu JeOS Edition has been tuned to take advantage of key performance technologies of the latest virtualisation products from VMware. This combination of reduced size and optimized performance ensures that Ubuntu JeOS Edition delivers a highly efficient use of server resources in large virtual deployments. You can read more about Ubuntu JeOS in the following press release: http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-jeos To Get Ubuntu JeOS 7.10 ----------------------- The JeOS 7.10 CD image for x86 systems can be found at: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/jeos/releases/gutsy/release/ Currently JeOS is available as a 32-bit flavor only. About Ubuntu ------------ Ubuntu is a Linux distribution for desktop, server and mobile, which is fast to install and easy to run. The Ubuntu project makes no distinction between a free edition and an enterprise edition - our best work is freely available to all. Used by businesses, home users, schools, and governments around the world, Ubuntu offers regular releases, a selection of excellent packages installed by default and professional commercial technical support from Canonical, the commercial sponsor of the project. You can find out more about Ubuntu and about this release on our website, IRC channel, and wiki. If you are new to Ubuntu, please visit: http://www.ubuntu.com/ To sign up for future Ubuntu announcements, please subscribe to Ubuntu's very low volume announcement list at: http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-announce -- ubuntu-announce mailing list ubuntu-announce@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-announce (Log in to post comments)
Ubuntu JeOS 7.10 released Posted Nov 19, 2007 21:27 UTC (Mon) by tss (guest, #49138) [Link] Is there a forum or mailing list for JeOS? I couldn't find one. A question... Our company might want to distribute a virtual machine, and JeOS is a good candidate. Because we'd be distributing GPL'd software, we need to distribute the source. Is there an easy way to extract the source packages for JeOS or another Debian/Ubuntu-based virtual machine? I realize that the GPL is widely ignored in this role (as it also is with Knoppix-like distributions), but we'd need to follow the letter of the law for this usage. - ts
Ubuntu JeOS 7.10 released Posted Nov 20, 2007 3:04 UTC (Tue) by nealmcb (subscriber, #20740) [Link] See also the discussion at ubuntuforums: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=549222&page=4 for tips about something much more useful IMHO than the JeOS iso image: ubuntu-jeos-builder - a straightforward shell script using qemu-img and debootstrap to build VMs for vmware, qemu, and kvm (so far). It is not officially released so far, but it is pretty easy to grab and run right out of the source tree. Much faster and less complicated than going thru the install process with an iso image. https://code.launchpad.net/~shawarma/ubuntu-jeos/ This is the Ubuntu VM builder script which automates the process of creating a ready to use VM based on Ubuntu. You can pass command line options to add extra packages, remove packages, choose which version of Ubuntu, which mirror etc. On recent hardware with plenty of RAM, tmpdir in /dev/shm, and a local mirror, you can bootstrap a vm in less than 50 seconds.
Ubuntu JeOS 7.10 released Posted Nov 20, 2007 5:55 UTC (Tue) by nealmcb (subscriber, #20740) [Link] Oops - "always test our links".... That should be: https://code.launchpad.net/ubuntu-jeos/ e.g. the "trunk" branch, "browse code" option.
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