- Wish You A Happy Diwali, By Hardik Dalwadi
Recently, Dell Extends Ubuntu Retail into India. As a part of this exercise, All Dell Stores and Dell Partner Stores are selling Ubuntu Pre-Installed Dell machines from their retail users. Dell India is already selling Ubuntu Pre-Installed Dell Machines [For Enterprises] since long time. But, this exercise is specifically for retail users. Now, you walk in to any Dell Store or Dell Partner Store and you can ask for Ubuntu Pre-Installed Dell Machine. Last week i was in Care Solutions Retail Store @ S.G. Highway, Ahmedabad, one of the biggest multi-brand IT Showroom in Ahmedabad, Gujarat and they were selling and advertising Ubuntu Pre-Installed Dell Machines. I managed to take few snaps of the same. Even i found Ubuntu Pre-Installed Dell Machines with Ubuntu Sticker on it. Here is PoC 
Ubuntu Pre-Installed Dell Vostro 3350 @ Dell Partner Store, Care Solutions @ S.G. Highway, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Ubuntu Pre-Installed Dell Vostro 131 & Dell Vostro 3350 @ Dell Partner Store, Care Solutions @ S.G. Highway, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Ubuntu Pre-Installed Dell Inspiron Machine with Ubuntu Logo Sticker @ Dell Partner Store, Care Solutions @ S.G. Highway, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
So, if you are Ubuntu Lover or want to be Ubuntu User, go and grab your Ubuntu Pre-Installed Dell Machine. Now, you would have obvious question, Why Ubuntu Pre-Installed Dell Machine? So please visit Ubuntu Dell Web Page to know more about Canonical & Dell efforts to make it possible. My personal experience says that you can save few thousands if you are Ubuntu Lover / Ubuntu User and not interested in buying Windows machine. If you still have questions, poke me @ person {at} hardik [dot] in.
Have you ever think of baking your own cloud within 5 Minutes? Have you ever think of Elastic Compute (Nova-Compute) within 5 Minutes? Have you ever think of Elastic Storage (Nova-Volumes) within 5 minutes? Have you ever think of your hands on Open Stack Dash Board (Horizon) within 5 Minutes? Now you should think of it. With release of Ubuntu 12.04, It’s time for Ubuntu Cloud Live 12.04. My friend Ante Karamati? has released Ubuntu Cloud Live 12.04, Hybrid Image, Burn on your DVD , CD or USB Stick, you can say Cloud On DVD, Cloud on Stick, Yes, it’s as easy as you reading this.
Ubuntu Cloud Live is a live CD/USB image that allows you to get a glimpse of Ubuntu Cloud Infrastructure. Project’s web site is located at Launchpad – https://launchpad.net/cloud-live. Procedure is very simple; download an image, burn it on CD or dd it on the USB key and boot of that device. System will boot in Unity or Unity2D and present you with at Getting Started document. Notice that we do not include full Ubuntu desktop experience – we’ve removed all components that aren’t necessary for this project, to make image as small as possible.
Once you finish with Getting Started document, you’ll be able to log into the dashboard and start instances. All of this without installing anything on your computer! For the purpose of demo, we’ve provided a small CirrOS image which you can run and log in to. Since everything is running in RAM, you will have better experience if your system has 4 or more gigabytes of memory. 2GB is enough to get system booted, but you won’t be able to do much more after that.
For a little extra, we’ve configured Ubuntu Cloud Live with support for Nova Volume. All you have to do is plug in additional disk, create a PV volume on it (pvcreate /dev/xyz), create nova-volumes VG (vgcreate nova-volumes /dev/xyz) and restart nova volume (service nova-volume restart).
Image is built with live-build and the source is available on Launchpad. Build process pulls in one package that’s also available on Launchpad. Procedure for building your own Cloud Live is very simple:
- Install Ubuntu 12.04, 64bit
- Install live-build package
- Create working directory – mkdir ~/cloud-live ; cd ~/cloud-live
- Branch bzr code – bzr branch lp:cloud-live config
- [OPTIONAL] Customize config/* files
- Build an image – sudo lb build
- Burn or dd resulting image – binary-hybrid.iso
Or, if you just want default, official, Ubuntu Cloud Live image, go to cdimage.ubuntu.com and grab it!
Reference From Ante Karamati? Blog.
Ubuntu Cloud Day
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Just now i realized that, i have completed 3 years @ Canonical. I had joined Canonical on 5th January, 2009. I am very happy to be part of Global Innovative Team. If i look back, i remember my journey from OEM Builder to Cloud Builder. On such a fortunate occurrence, i would like to share my TripIT Map. Big Thanks To Canonical.
TripIT Map Of Hardik Dalwadi @ Canonical
