Today Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, released Ubuntu 9.04. What makes this release stand out from previous Ubuntu releases is the new Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud services. Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud services is the first commercially-supported Linux distribution that enables businesses to build private cloud environments inside their firewalls. Companies will now be...

Lets rewind to about a month ago. As I usually do, I skipped past the README files and installed Erlang with apt-get. Ten seconds later, I had Erlang up and running on my Ubuntu development VM. Like a bad teenage horror movie, I’m sure you can see where this is going. Fast forward to present day. I was running into another serious compiler error with Erlang. A...