The Ubuntu team just announced on a couple mailing lists the availability of an official beta for Ubuntu Server images on Amazon Web Services. More info regarding this beta can be found on the Ubuntu web site and registration is open to anyone.

It has been an interesting process to put these images together and I must address big thanks to everyone that participated in this efort, including msm, soren, zul, esh, surfous, sg and certainly a few others that I have forgotten.  It's been a great community effort, thanks!  Well, I guess it is done now, so we just have to wait to see what EC2 users think of this image. I am sure there are things that we can improve (there always is) and am anxiously waiting to see what will be the comments about Ubuntu's first step into the cloud.

Following up on Dustin's blog about our idea of proposing screen configurations for ubuntu server, here is how I have set up my environment to use screen by default on my machines.

First of all, I modified my .bashrc to add the following at the end:

if [ "$TERM" != "screen" ]; then
    #screen -D -R
    #Update 2008 Dec 16: -xRR is way better
    screen -xRR
fi

Back from Mountain View, California, where I attended the Jaunty Ubuntu Developer Summit. A crazy 10 days where we discussed the future of Ubuntu, and in my case more particularly the server edition. From cloud computing to configuration management, the subjects touched were too numerous to enumerate, but will certainly provide great content for Ubuntu 9.04.

I have uploaded a few pictures and a useless movie if you care to see a few of the faces that were present. 250 people were there, I certainly wasn't able to capture everyone :) A big thanks to Google for hosting our summit on their campus.

LinuxWorld 2008 just ended, OSCON was a couple weeks ago, I guess now would be a good time for me to post the presentation I used at these events… Both were great events, and Ubuntu won (again) the best desktop product award and for the first time the best booth one :) Clear that our booth kept quite busy the 3 days. It was hard to find a moment to go eat something!

Anyway, as promised to

First blog entry in english here, sorry for the french readers, but if you don't speak english, not much point to read this anyway….

It looks likes I'll be spending most of my summer on the US west coast this year, as I have just had confirmation that I'll give about the same conference on virtualization choices offered on Ubuntu in two shows. First one is Ubuntu Live on July 21st in Portland, the second one is Linux World in San Francisco on Aug 4–7th. 

[Update Jun 1] Ubuntu Live has been merged with OSCON and my conference has been moved a few days later…

If you have a good idea on what I should be doing in between the two, feel free to send it my way, as I will certainly use the week between OSCON and Linux World as vacation time.

Oh, I forgot to thank the AFNOR and ISO for its stupid final decision regarding Microsoft's OOXML published today: