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Ubuntu gets cloudy koala   
Monday, February 23 2009 @ 01:29 PM EST
Contributed by: sde

The team behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution has unleashed plans for its October 2009 release, adding a new name with an Australian flavour to the company's alliteration menagerie: Ubuntu 9.10, "Karmic Koala".

The release is aimed squarely at cloud computing, with the intention to incorporate programming interfaces from the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to allow for quick deployment of cloud applications. The ability to create an EC2-style cloud will be included courtesy of the Eucalyptus project.

"If that sounds rather open and nebulous, then we've hit the sweet spot for cloud computing futurology," the project's patron and founder, Mark Shuttleworth, wrote in an email to developers.

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