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On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Robert Munn <[email protected]> wrote: > Ubuntu is the bomb. If you are using KVM, install virsh and use it to manage > your VMs on the command line. There is a GUI VM manager, but it has issues. > Virsh is very nice. There are new Ubuntu docs on KVM here: > > http://doc.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/serverguide/C/virtualization.html > > I have two current quibbles with Ubuntu around sound and video. The new > sound system, Pulse Audio Server, is designed to unify sound management > throughout Ubuntu, but it isn't quite fully baked yet. I have a Bose > Companion 3 sound system (USB audio), and the OS sometimes loses track or > gets locked out of Pulse until I reboot. Video has a similar issue where > Flash videos (not sure about general Flash movies) play for a second then > stop playing in Firefox. Sometimes there is a firefox process hung and I can > kill the process and restore sound and video, so the underlying issue might > be Firefox, but it still needs to be addressed. > > There are a few other things, mostly around multimedia. > > The only killer right now is the lack of software tools for Ubuntu. Adobe's > support for Linux is find on the server, not so good from a tools > perspective. The market is small right now, so I understand their issue with > spending money on it. If you want to see more tools for Ubuntu, tell Adobe, > they need to hear it. > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Zaphod wrote: > >> >> I started to download VMWare server (the free version) so that I could >> run my vm's under it, but found KVM. I must say that KVM is really >> kick ass. I think one of the neatest things about it is the fact that >> it can be run from the command line. Want to spool up WinXp for a >> quick operation: >> >> kvm -hda winxp.img -no-reboot > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:285026 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
