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Archive for April, 2011
Ubuntu Natty Narwhal hits Beta 1
Apr 20th
From the ‘It’s April 1st, But This Is No Joke’ files: Ubuntu 11.04 aka – the Natty Narwhal is now available as a beta release. Why Ubuntu devs chose April 1st is beyond me, but rest assured this distro is no joke. For starters Natty has the uber cool Linux 2.6.38 kernel, you know the one that makes everything faster.
This will be the first of the big distros to include 2.6.38 and it will make the Natty experience for even current Ubuntu 10.10 users better. For desktop users, the new Unity interface (think Gnome Shell, only better) is now the default Ubuntu Desktop session. This is likely to be the biggest user experience issue that existing Ubuntu users will either like or dislike.
If you’re already a die-hard Fedora, openSUSE, Debian GNOME desktop user, this sort of change isn’t likely for you (then again you’re not running Ubuntu anyways for other reasons, so Unity is just one more reason..). Red Hat’s Fedora Project Leader at the time told me that he wasn’t worried about Unity and would be sticking with GNOME Shell.
Ubuntu announced back in October of 2010, that they, instead of GNOME 3 and the GNOME Shell approach. At the time of the Unity announcement, Mark Shuttleworth stressed that existing GNOME apps would still work in Unity.
“The shell is simply the piece that is used for launching applications and for switching between running applications,” Shuttleworth said. “All of the applications are the same. There are developers within GNOME that just focus on GNOME Shell and that’s the piece that we won’t be integrating, but the rest of GNOME will fit perfectly into the Unity environment.”
With Beta 1 of Natty, it will now be time for users to see if Shuttleworth’s October assessment was correct. The other big thing for desktop users will benefit from are some moderate improvements to the Ubuntu Software Center in terms of performance. Additionally the system now allows provide users the ability to review and rate applications.
There is one more beta scheduled before Natty goes final on April 28, 2011
What is web hosting?
Apr 16th
In order for a web site to be available on the World Wide Web, it must be hosted on a server. This is referred to as web hosting. There are several different methods by which this is done. Your Internet Service Provider (ISP), for example AOL, may make limited web space available as part of your subscription. There are also free web hosting services, although in order for the service to be free they will place advertisements and pop-ups on your page. For full control, including the ability to choose your own domain name, the only option is to pay a company to host your web site.
How does paid web hosting work? Paid web hosting is available in three different ways. The most common, and cheapest, is shared or virtual hosting. This means that your web site is one of many that are all hosted on the same server. For the vast majority of sites this is more than sufficient for their needs, and a visitor will never know that your site is not held on its own server. If you expect your site to be very busy, or to use a lot of bandwidth, then you may need to consider a dedicated server. This means that your site will be hosted on its own server, and that all of those servers’ resources, such as CPU time and hard-drive space, will be used for your web site. However, a dedicated server is still owned by the hosting company – you are only renting it for a period of time. Finally, you may consider a co-located server. In this case you own the server, and are paying the hosting company for housing it and for connecting it to the Internet. More >
