To find the latest Lucid daily build, simply search for an AMI in the AWS Management Console with the current date, like “20100302.” You should find daily desktop builds for either today’s or yesterday’s date. Perhaps I’ll make a full tutorial for beginners after Lucid’s official release). Information for setting up EC2 on Ubuntu can be found here. Here’s what you need to know to get started (note: This is not a full tutorial, and meant for people who already are familiar with EC2 and have their systems configured for working with EC2. These images include a full Ubuntu desktop environment as well as Google’s Neatx open source NX server for connecting remotely to the desktop. You can now find daily testing images for Ubuntu Lucid desktop in EC2. With the Lucid release, the Ubuntu team is making desktop in the cloud much easier. If you wanted to use a desktop environment on EC2, you needed to do quite a bit of tweaking and installing of packages yourself. Until now, most of the attention on cloud technologies has been focused on servers in the cloud. One new feature in Ubuntu 10.04 that caught my attention is the “ Desktop in the Cloud” project.

This means that it’s easy to spin up Ubuntu instances on EC2 or to make your own private cloud with Ubuntu … where you can spin up more instances of Ubuntu … there’s a lot of “cloud” going on here! Ubuntu now has cloud support for Amazon’s EC2 and Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (a “private cloud” system based on Eucalyptus). For the past few releases, Canonical has put quite a bit of energy into making Ubuntu a first-class OS for use in the cloud.

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