Since I installed OpenSUSE 10.3, I wanted to install Google Desktop, however everytime I go to the Linux page I get this:
Even in the main page, there is no mention of the Linux version??
Whats going on?
Ubuntu is a fairly new distribution compared to other mature distributions. It made a splash for its user friendliness, building on the strengths of the robust Debian distributions and a lot of marketing, it shot to instant fame. Ubuntu promised that every 6 months there will be a new release, so far it has held to that promise.
However I realize everytime there is a new release, there are lots and lots of problems in them, and unlike calling them "full releases", they seem like a beta release to me. I'm not an ubuntu user, however this week when Ubuntu 7.10, the latest version was released my friend immediately downloaded it, and since then has been grappling with problems: widescreen resolution won't set, compiz-fusion on ATI closed source drivers is broken, gdesklets, Evolution on 64bit Intel etc... And he is not alone, in a thread in ubuntu forums, which is has swelled to 84 pages at the time of writing. So people definitively have lots and lots of problems with the latest release. So I want to ask to the ubuntu community, is in their opinion "6 monts a release" working? To an external observer it doesn't seem to.
I'm an avid OpenSUSE fan. I've waited long for OpenSUSE they went over 6 alpha releases, and many beta releases also its been more than 8 months since the last opensuse release. For me it matters most that new version of a distribution is stable enough even when it takes a year, not hurried to a 6 months artificial time schedule and release it in what ever form it is.
With the recent inclusion of Xen and lguest into the 2.6.23 kernel aswell as a generic interface for other hypervisors, the Linux kernel has become a playground for virtualization technologies. KVM was added to the kernel in 2.6.20. So what does the kernel have? It has hardware assisted virtualization solution like KVM, Xen PVM aswell as software based solutions like Xen PVM and lguest. Additionally various virtualization techniques like Linux V server, Qemu and others have existed for quite some time.
With the inclusion the of these technologies, the linux kernel provides researchers an environment where they can play around with various techniques and advance the state of the art in Virtualization. I look forward to a future where nearly all the innovations to virtualization will come not from proprietary platforms like MS Virtual PC or VMware but from opensource hypervisors. Linux has played a key role in the past in advancing Virtualization. VMware was one of the first full virtualization solutions and start the revival of the virtualization market, however it was an open source virtualization hypervisor Xen, which actually managed to introduce a software which allowed near native performance virtualization. It was again Xen, which provided support to hardware assisted platforms like Intel VT and AMD SVM.
