From the Canyon Edge: The New Look of the Ubuntu 11.04 Server Installer!

Friday, April 15, 2011

The New Look of the Ubuntu 11.04 Server Installer!

With Natty Beta2, the Ubuntu 11.04 Server Installer received a little bit of the same aubergine love that the Ubuntu Desktop has enjoyed now for the last few releases. Moving away from that 1980s MSDOS/PCDOS VGA blue look, the our Server installer now sports a distinctively Ubuntu color scheme!

Note that I used the Ubuntu quick install preseed to install the Ubuntu Server 11.04 Beta2 release, in a 64-bit KVM with 4 virtual CPUs, 2GB of memory, and with both the ISO and the backing qcow2 image in a tmpfs. I captured the video with xvidcap, increased the frame rate a bit to match the music with avidemux, used pitivi to add the music to the video, and the music, of course is Purple Haze by Jimi Hendrix, live from San Diego Sports Arena, May 24, 1969 on The Jimi Hendrix Experience album.

:-Dustin

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DebianeroApril 15, 2011 at 7:41 PM
I don't like that color scheme at all but I've enjoyed the music ^_^
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AliApril 16, 2011 at 1:53 AM
byobu is the default?
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J CunhaApril 16, 2011 at 4:08 AM
But your "VGA blue" can be rendered in old devices, while aubergine can't.
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Dustin KirklandApril 16, 2011 at 11:42 AM
Ali,

No, it's not. It's installed by my uquick preseed file, though.
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Dustin KirklandApril 16, 2011 at 11:50 AM
J Cunha,

Like what? Can you show me a device that the new installer doesn't work with?

In any case, you can trivially add a kernel command parameter to put the installer back in legacy blue mode. Just add "FRONTEND_BACKGROUND=legacy" to the installer's kernel command line parameters to change it back to blue.
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Jonathan CarterApril 16, 2011 at 2:26 PM
@J Cunha: Perhaps it's time to upgrade from EGA to VGA eh?
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Dustin Kirkland (Twitter, LinkedIn) is an engineer at heart, with a penchant for reducing complexity and solving problems at the cross-sections of technology, business, and people.

With a degree in computer engineering from Texas A&M University (2001), his full-time career began as a software engineer at IBM in the Linux Technology Center working on the Linux kernel and security certifications, including a one-year stint as an dedicated engineer-in-residence at Red Hat in Boston (2005). Dustin was awarded the title Master Inventor at IBM, in recognition of his prolific patent work as an inventor and reviewer with IBM's intellectual property attorneys.

Dustin then first joined Canonical (2008) as an engineer (eventually, engineering manager), helping create the Ubuntu Server distribution and establishing Ubuntu as the overwhelming favorite Linux distribution in Amazon, Google, and Microsoft's cloud platforms, as well as authoring and maintaining dozens of new open source packages.

Dustin joined Gazzang (2011), a venture-backed start-up built around an open source project that he co-authored (eCryptFS), as Chief Technology Officer, and helped dozens of enterprise customers encrypt their data at rest and securely manage their keys. Gazzang was acquired by Cloudera (2014).

Having effectively monetized eCryptFS as an open source project at Gazzang, Dustin returned to Canonical (2013) as the VP of Product for Ubuntu and spent the next several years launching a portfolio of products and services (Ubuntu Advantage, Extended Security Maintenance, Canonical Livepatch, MAAS, OpenStack, Kubernetes) that continues to deliver considerable annual recurring revenue. With Canonical based in London, an 800+ work-from-home employee roster and customers spread across 40+ countries, Dustin traveled the world over, connecting with clients and colleagues steeped in rich cultural experiences.

Google Cloud (2018) recruited Dustin from Canonical to product manage Google's entrance into on-premises data centers with its GKE On-Prem (now, Anthos) offering, with a specific focus on the underlying operating system, hypervisor, and container security. This work afforded Dustin a view deep into the back end data center of many financial services companies, where he still sees tremendous opportunities for improvements in security, efficiencies, cost-reduction, and disruptive new technology adoption.

Seeking a growth-mode opportunity in the fintech sector, Dustin joined Apex Clearing (now, Apex Fintech Solutions) as the Chief Product Officer (2019), where he led several organizations including product management, field engineering, data science, and business partnerships. He drastically revamped Apex's product portfolio and product management processes, retooling away from a legacy "clearing house and custodian", and into a "software-as-a-service fintech" offering instant brokerage account opening, real-time fractional stock trading, a secure closed-network crypto solution, and led the acquisition and integration of Silver's tax and cost basis solution.

Drawn back into a large cap, Dustin joined Goldman Sachs (2021) as a Managing Director and Head of Platform Product Management, within the Consumer banking division, which included Marcus, and the Apple and GM credit cards. He built a cross-functional product management community and established numerous documented product management best practices, processes, and anti-patterns.

Dustin lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife Kim and their wonderful two daughters.

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