[cs615asa] HW#N: Attend a relevant Meetup/Talk/community event‏

[cxu8]

Hi，all
I attended the talk about the introduction of Ubuntu 16.04, one day 
before its official release. The head of the Ubuntu Server and Cloud 
Product Strategy Mark Baker gave the talk on different topics.

The reason that I chose this talk is that I Ubuntu has played a 
important role in my daily production, all the infrastructure I 
leveraged on daily basis was on Ubuntu, my NAS, my git server was 
deployed in Ubuntu, it is really important for me to know what new 
feature has introduced to the Ubuntu 16.04 so I can decide whether I 
should upgrade my infrastructure from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS to Ubuntu 16.04 
LTS.

I don’t use Ubuntu desktop system a lot, so I mainly focused on 
server-related stuff.

The speaker talked about five server-related software newly introduced 
on Ubuntu 16.04, which are LXD, Snappy, Docker, OpenStack, OpenZFS.

I have been a ubuntu user for 4 years, I used ubuntu 12.04 LTS, 14.04 
LTS. The most amazing part is that LTS version offer you 5-year support 
in the security updates, and with the easy-to-use package manager. 
That’s why I choose Ubuntu as my major linux distribution.

One big topic is about the LXD, the new generation Linux container 
hypervisor. The company is now working with the hardware company to make 
sure the introduction of the new container technology can be supported 
by the new generation of processor. I think this kind of lightweight 
container solution can help me with a better virtualization experience, 
as virtualization has become a major part of my production 
infrastructure.

Another import part is about the Docker. My production environment can 
become more portable. So I can port my server from one machine to 
another with ease.

After this talk, I think I should use Ubuntu as an important part of my 
software infrastructure in the long run.
event link:
http://www.meetup.com/nylug-meetings/events/228363222/
Conghao Xu