[OT] Linus Torvalds delays Linux 3.0 launch due to a subtle bug

[Tom H]

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 21 July 2011 06:09, Doug <dmcgarrett at optonline.net> wrote:
>>
>> Pardon my naiveté, but what is Hyper-V and what would it do for me?
>
> It's Microsoft's server virtualisation solution. Utterly unimportant
> and irrelevant to desktop Linux users; it only runs on Windows 2008
> Server.

It's important for running Linux (server) guests on Win2k8.

At the moment, only RHEL and SUSE are officially supported, but I
vaguely remember reading an article that claimed that MS is working on
adding Ubuntu to that list.