Colm MacCárthaigh gobsmacked himself — and us! — with some impressive stats that show Ubuntu tidily outperforming Solaris Express on Sun’s Niagara-powered T2000. Given that Niagara is optimised more for throughput and thread-count than raw number-crunching, Colm benchmarked Apache web requests. He reports that “the result is stunning. Ubuntu is now outperforming even Solaris express, and we’re sustaining 22,183.43 requests per second – using out of the box Apache 2.2.0.” Way to go!
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Have you ever wondered who the people behind Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu and Xubuntu are and what they do? Or what they are like? Behind Ubuntu is a new series of interviews with those involved in bringing you Ubuntu. The first interview is with Jonathan Riddell from the Kubuntu Team.
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The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) and Canonical Ltd. have announced the development of a certification exam for the Ubuntu distribution. The certification will consist of a single exam on top of LPI’s existing 101 and 102 exams. Jim Lacey, President and CEO of the Linux Professional Institute, had this to say:
We have long considered LPIC-1 to be the entry-level professional certification for all Linux distributions. This collaborative initiative with Ubuntu clearly demonstrates how Linux software developers can leverage our existing distribution-neutral program to create professional certification programs for their own software packages
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Javier writes in pointing out some recent Kubuntu articles in the press. Firstly, Phil Hughes from Tux Magazine takes a good look at the upcoming Dapper Drake version of Kubuntu.
You’ll find the latest Kubuntu 5.10 Live CD featuring KDE 3.5.1 and KOffice 1.5 beta in the current edition of the UK’s Linux User Magazine. And finally, Carla Schroder, author of the Linux Cookbook brings us Tuning Kubuntu.
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After eighteen months of faithful service, Ubuntu 4.10 (aka the Warty Warthog), will be end-of-lifed on 30 April 2005. Matt Zimmerman made the expected notice on the announcement mailing list, along with the upgrade path for those of you still running Warty:
The supported upgrade path from Ubuntu 4.10 is via Ubuntu 5.04. Instructions and caveats for the upgrade may be found at Hoary Upgrade Notes. Note that upgrades to version 5.10 and beyond are only supported in multiple steps, via an upgrade first to 5.04, then to 5.10.
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