Re: Ubuntu Server Book Needed?

2008-07-15 Thread Luke L
Mike, your suggestions are right on! I think providing a feature comparison with KVM vs. VMWare would be useful. I editted Mike's message below to those points I agree with most. I too would spend the money on a book solely on virtualization with KVM and Ubuntu. --Physical -> virtual server transi

Re: Ubuntu Server Book Needed?

2008-07-15 Thread Jonathan Jesse
ome clearer :-) > > > > So I am not sure how much this helps you as it is far more information > > that would be included in a single chapter on Virtualization ... but I > > think tying in JeOS would be great as would importing VMWare virtual > > machines as well as w

Re: Ubuntu Server Book Needed?

2008-07-15 Thread Sander van Vugt
reat as would importing VMWare virtual > machines as well as ways to remotely administer virtual machines. > > I will try and get back to you on my experience the second time round > now that my "server" machine is free to have ubuntu loaded on to it > again. This may

Re: Ubuntu Server Book Needed?

2008-07-15 Thread Sander van Vugt
> Looking at the table of contents on Amazon, it doesn't appear that you cover > Ubuntu as a mail server in the current edition. Is that planned for the next > edition or the advanced book? I'm going a lot of work to make mail server > setup more accessible in Intrepid and I'm curious if you

RE: Ubuntu Server Book Needed?

2008-07-14 Thread Mike Lane
r@lists.ubuntu.com> Subject: Re: Ubuntu Server Book Needed?> > On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 09:13:05PM +, Mike Lane wrote:> > I actually have the first book that you linked too and have found it> > pretty useful so far. I was actually very disappointed with the> > section o

Re: Ubuntu Server Book Needed?

2008-07-14 Thread Soren Hansen
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 09:13:05PM +, Mike Lane wrote: > I actually have the first book that you linked too and have found it > pretty useful so far. I was actually very disappointed with the > section on virtualization though which very briefly covers KVM, Xen > and I forget the third one off

Re: Ubuntu Server Book Needed?

2008-07-13 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Sunday 13 July 2008 04:11, Sander van Vugt wrote: > Hi Mike, > > I'm the author of the beginning book. Currently working on the second > edition (and an advanced book as well, both will be out by Q4 this > year). I'm interested in your comments about the virtualization chapter. > Would you be wi

Re: Ubuntu Server Book Needed?

2008-07-13 Thread Eric Hammond
On the topic of Ubuntu virtualization and books... For the last year, I've been creating and maintaining public Ubuntu images (AMIs) for Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) which is an increasingly popular virtual server environment based on Xen. I've also been fostering a growing community

Re: Ubuntu Server Book Needed?

2008-07-13 Thread Sander van Vugt
to see a server > book dedicated to just running virtual machines on Ubuntu server. I > know I would buy it (if it was a good in depth book). > > Mike > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: ubuntu

RE: Ubuntu Server Book Needed?

2008-07-11 Thread Mike Lane
EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ubuntu Server Book Needed?Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:43:29 -0400Hello all, Megan with Manning Publications here. I normally do not post general inquiries about books to technical mailing lists, but in this case I was encouraged to do so, so here goes. I'

Re: Ubuntu Server Book Needed?

2008-07-11 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Friday 11 July 2008 13:43, Megan Yockey wrote: > Hello all, > > Megan with Manning Publications here. I normally do not post general > inquiries about books to technical mailing lists, but in this case I > was encouraged to do so, so here goes. > > I'm seeking feedback from the community regard

Re: Ubuntu Server Book Needed?

2008-07-11 Thread Luke L
> To your question of whether it is "still needed" or not, I can only say that > if your book provides plenty of real world examples, it is definitely > needed. I want to emphasize that, as well. Along with my other suggestions, I will say that real world examples (or "use cases") can help users u

Re: Ubuntu Server Book Needed?

2008-07-11 Thread Aaron Kincer
Megan, I can only speak for myself, but as an IT Manager, I appreciate having good quality technical resources at hand. Sometimes, having it in print is just better as I can take a book places to read that a laptop just isn't the best idea. That being said, I cannot stress enough the "good qualit

Re: Ubuntu Server Book Needed?

2008-07-11 Thread Luke L
On 7/11/08, Megan Yockey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > Megan with Manning Publications here. I normally do not post general > inquiries about books to technical mailing lists, but in this case I was > encouraged to do so, so here goes. > > > I'm seeking feedback from the community re

Ubuntu Server Book Needed?

2008-07-11 Thread Megan Yockey
Hello all, Megan with Manning Publications here. I normally do not post general inquiries about books to technical mailing lists, but in this case I was encouraged to do so, so here goes. I'm seeking feedback from the community regarding the interest-level for a book on Ubuntu Server. W