It looks like Ubuntu has made their JeOS (Just Enough OS) version available for download as a 151MB ISO image. JeOS is based on Ubuntu 7.10. There doesn’t seem to be much other information available beyond their original press release.
JeOS was announced a few months ago, but had been vapor up to this point. It’s […]
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Disclaimer for anyone who doesn’t know, I’m the CEO of JumpBox.
After a quiet couple months, things are really cracking now with JumpBox. We had some great stuff queued up that took a lot longer to get out than I expected. The funny thing is that the product was ready, but it took a while to […]
Raritan has announced a new virtual appliance for their CommandCenter NOC product. This is another hardware appliance being converted into a virtual appliance although it appears they’ll support the production deployment of the virtual appliance.
SOMERSET, N.J., Aug. 20 /PRNewswire/ — Raritan today announced that its network and systems monitoring appliance has gone virtual. Designed for […]
Levanta has released a virtual appliance for evaluation of their Linux Management system. Levanta is a hardware appliance company who’s now dabbling in the virtual appliance space. This first release looks to be just an evaluation version that is then up-sold to a hardware appliance for production deployment.
Download Levanta’s Intrepid VM, and see how Levanta’s […]
During a speech this week at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, VMWare co-founder Mendel Rosenblum was quoted saying:
Asked if he thinks the virtual appliance model is a threat to OS vendors, principally Microsoft, Rosenblum said, “If I were in their shoes … I think the answer is yes.”
This idea is a little fuzzy, because virtual […]
It’s been pretty quiet around here lately and that’s because I’ve been really occupied with my company and getting our production release out. So today we’re announcing the production release of the JumpBox Virtual Appliance Platform 1.0 and a suite of updated virtual appliances. The pitch I’ve been playing with for these things is that […]
Trac is a great application to track software development projects, but anyone who’s tried to install it knows it can be a real pain at times. This is especially true if you want to get it working on Windows or Mac OS X. Because there’s such obvious pain here, we decided to give it the […]
rPath has added a couple features to rBuilder in order to simplify the process of building virtual appliances for the VMWare Virtual Appliance Marketplace.
Raleigh, N.C. (June 6, 2007) – rPath™, provider of a platform for creating and maintaining virtual appliances, today announced that virtual appliances intended for the VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace (http://vam.vmware.com) can be […]
Over at JumpBox we just posted the first release candidate for the JumpBox virtual appliance platform and along with it new releases of all of our virtual appliances.
JumpBox virtual appliances aim to bring ease of use to the deployment and management of Open Source server based applications. They’re completely focused on delivering a simple […]
The results are in for the “How many virtual machines do you have running?” poll.
1-10 60%
> 100 18%
10-50 13%
0 6%
50-100 3%
What was interesting about this poll (other than the 6% of readers who don’t have any virtual machines) was how it changed over time. When I first posted it, it appeared on the VMWare site […]

