The New Ubuntu Thursday Will Pave Way for Server Version
As the widget in our sidebar at the lower right shows, it is only a few days until Ubuntu 7.10! And, the buzz is starting about the next Ubuntu server release as well!
Canonical’s new Ubuntu paves way for server push
“Canonical plans on Thursday to release ‘Gutsy Gibbon,’ the Ubuntu Linux version 7.10 that the company hopes will lay the foundation for a serious push into the server and other markets six months from now. That’s when Gutsy Gibbon’s sequel, ‘Hardy Heron,’ is scheduled to arrive. Gutsy Gibbon will have the usual Ubuntu support life span–18 months–but Hardy Heron will be the company’s second version to feature long-term support, which lasts three years for the desktop product and five years for the server. Some of the Gutsy Gibbon work involved introducing new features Canonical hopes to stabilize for Hardy Heron, said Canonical’s chief executive and founder, Mark Shuttleworth. Take, for example, the ‘tickless’ kernel, which is designed to reduce power consumption and improve server virtualization performance by letting the processor enter a somnolent state more often. ‘I’m quite glad we’re not trying to make the decision between tickless and long-term support. This is a fairly radical piece of surgery on the kernel,’ Shuttleworth said. Among other Gutsy Gibbon developments are snazzy 3D graphics for the desktop version, desktop search called Tracker and the first incarnation of a Ubuntu Mobile version for portable gadgets.”
It seems we have been getting a lot of defrag utilities lately… but this one comes from our friends at CCleaner and Recuva, both of which have been GSotW honorees as well. And, you can defragment a file at a time, if you want. So, check it out!