[CoLoCo] JeOS

[Neal McBurnett]

On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 09:06:00AM -0600, Kevin Fries wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 10:27 -0400, Michael Haney wrote:
> > On 10/9/07, Kevin Fries <kfries at cctus.com> wrote:
> > > Has anyone tried JeOS ("Juice") yet?  Impressions?
> > >
> > 
> > I've never heard of that distro before, but then again I gave up
> > trying to keep up with how many nix distros there are out there.  Is
> > it a Debian distro or Red Hat variant?
> 
> JeOS is an Ubuntu flavor designed for VMs.
> 
> http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-jeos
> 
> We use VMware quite a bit around here.  And some of may remember from
> the Ubuntucon that I run a VM of Windows on my Ubuntu laptop to have
> access to Visio.  So virtualization is a big issue around here.
> 
> I would love to know if anyone else tried this and their impressions,
> gotcha lists, neat feature list, etc before I start digging in myself.

"Ahem".

Sitting here at UDS-Boston, I hear the gutsy version of JeOS will be
out "real soon now" in the standard repos :-) See also

 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-jeos/

for the ubuntu-jeos-builder code.

Neal McBurnett                 http://mcburnett.org/neal/