[Blueprint server-o-arm-server] Ubuntu ARM Server release for 11.10

[Michael Casadevall]

Blueprint changed by Michael Casadevall:

Whiteboard changed:
  Work Items:
  [mcasadevall] Create preinstalled ubuntu-server images by creatuing ubuntu-headless + server ship seed: TODO
  [mcasadevall] Followup with ARM Server Club on Java situation: TODO
- [mcasadevall] Review status of 64-bit atomics in gcc-4.6: TODO
+ [mcasadevall] Review status of 64-bit atomics in gcc-4.6: DONE
  [mcasadevall] Create wikipage/script of components in the server image: DONE
  [mcasadevall] Coordinate with kernel team server-specific tuning options for kernel: TODO
  [mcasadevall] Review server stack components for places where ARM-specific assembly would be useful for acceleration: TODO
  
  == Items to consider ==
  1. Create an 11.10  installable image for Ubuntu ARM Server
  2. Run standard QA on 11.10 Ubuntu ARM Server, including:
    - Functional testing of the key workloads
    - Public documentation of what is functional in the release
  3. Validate & optimise Linux Containers (lxc) for Cortex A-9 Class processors.
  4. Validate existing Linux Flash file system support.
  5. support cluster setup/configuration
  6. Support for OpenStack via lxc implementation
  7. Support for Hadoop  "one button cluster install"
  8. Java for ARM server
  
  === Proposed key workloads for Ubuntu ARM server in 11.10 ===
  Distributed Datastores - MySQL, Hadoop, HBase, Cassandra)
  “LAMP” Web Server - apache & nginx http delivery, PHP, Perl,
  MySQL, Postgresql - Caching,Memcache, Squid, Varnish
  Backup Server - Rsync, bacula

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Ubuntu ARM Server release for 11.10
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/server-o-arm-server