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   by dustinkirkland 10y ago

   Agreed, understood, thanks!
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   by dustinkirkland 10y ago

   You're welcome Dan! It was a lot of work, but so, so, so worth it. I'd do it again in a heartbeat. Or rather, maybe in 6 months :-)
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   by dustinkirkland 10y ago

   Hey there! Thanks for the suggestion. We're engaging with dozens of major vendors of traditional/proprietary software about delivering their software onto Ubuntu via Snaps -- which is a new packaging format that solves many of th
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   A Thank-You Note to the Hacker News Community from Ubuntu(blog.dustinkirkland.com)

   786 points by dustinkirkland 10y ago|227 comments
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   by dustinkirkland 10y ago

   Canonical has a commercial relationship with dozens of public clouds, ensuring that the Ubuntu in each of those clouds is securely produced, actively maintained, and at the standards and quality Ubuntu users expect. See the list of excelle
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   by dustinkirkland 10y ago

   Ubuntu is NOT suing OVH. Quite the opposite, in fact: https://www.ovh.com/us/news/cp2445.ovh_joins_ubuntu_certifie...
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   by dustinkirkland 10y ago

   You know that you can get PowerShell on Ubuntu now, right? https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/blob/master/docs/in...
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   by dustinkirkland 10y ago

   Ah, yes, I've heard this one a few times. Have you tried the BPF (Berkeley Packet Filter) and bcc tools? These are shipping now with 16.04. While it's not dtrace, it's certainly in the same family of deep inspection of a r
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   by dustinkirkland 10y ago

   This is fantastic, rich, response, thank you very much. I love your 3rd suggestion. That's a great idea.
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    by dustinkirkland 10y ago

    There are multiple options for Ubuntu that are much more modern than CPanel. For management, see: http://landscape.canonical.com For easy addition of server workloads, see: http://jujucharms.com
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    by dustinkirkland 10y ago

    As one of the co-authors of eCryptfs...I wholeheartedly agree! I hope we can get to EXT4 encryption soon :-)
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    by dustinkirkland 10y ago

    Classy. Constructive. Thank you for your contribution.
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    by dustinkirkland 10y ago

    Wow, you're so right! I asked the HN community, and wow, has the HN come through!
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    by dustinkirkland 10y ago

    What an interesting idea! :-)
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    by dustinkirkland 10y ago

    Ah, interesting! So this one would be super for Ubuntu security, but it's fantastically difficult :-)
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    by dustinkirkland 10y ago

    Fantastic feedback, thanks!!!
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    by dustinkirkland 10y ago

    Interesting!
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    by dustinkirkland 10y ago

    I can certainly relate! I always disable the touchpad entirely and use the touchpoint only on my Thinkpad, for this reason.
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    by dustinkirkland 10y ago

    If this is interesting to you, you'll want to keep track with what we're doing in Ubuntu Core! https://www.ubuntu.com/core
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    by dustinkirkland 10y ago

    I'm personally very happy to have your feedback here. My parents, too, use Ubuntu :-) They love it, and I love that I can fix their computer for them. Thanks for the feedback and I'll take it to heart.
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    by dustinkirkland 10y ago

    Aren't you in luck! We have an early preview of this very thing, called the "subiquity" installer, ie, "the server ubiquity" installer. And it's simply fantastic! Ping me on Twitter @dustinkirkland if you&#x2
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    by dustinkirkland 10y ago

    Hmm, so I happen to really like ZFS under my LXD containers on Ubuntu. It has always worked very well, very fast, with instant startup times and snapshots. However, ZFS is in no way required to run containers on Ubuntu. You can use any
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    by dustinkirkland 10y ago

    Yes, that's exactly right.
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    by dustinkirkland 10y ago

    ctrl-alt-t is my go-to hotkey!
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    by dustinkirkland 10y ago

    Yes, indeed. I assure you, I've been fighting this particular battle since 2008 :-) In any case, I hope you'll be pleased to learn that 17.04 will actually use "swap files" rather than "swap partitions", which
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    by dustinkirkland 10y ago

    Canonical is absolutely responsible for building those images. And yes, we do work with Amazon, Docker, et al. And yes, we're actively working on reducing image size. That said, what's "minimal" to one is not "min
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    by dustinkirkland 10y ago

    cloud-init? cloud-init.org
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    by dustinkirkland 10y ago

    Thanks! So, for the record, that's exactly the approach we're taking with Ubuntu Core. We're getting there! Thanks for the feedback.
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    by dustinkirkland 10y ago

    Absolutely happy to have your feedback, so you're most welcome! Is this Cloud Hosting Provider part of Canonical's Certified Public Cloud program? If so, I would be very surprised to see the kinds of issues you mention here. A
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    by dustinkirkland 10y ago

    Thank you for the feedback, and thanks for listening (and linking here for others)!