New tools in Ubuntu land: build service, eBox and TimeVault

Ubuntu announced that they will feature their own build service soon. Also, the next Ubuntu version is supposed to have a default installed server management web interface, eBox. In the meantime, development is underway to create a user friendly snapshot manager: TimeVault.

While the Ubuntu people are meeting at the Ubuntu Live 2007 conference at the moment I recently noticed some very interesting projects driven or supported by Ubuntu. Ubuntu Personal Package Archives - a build service made by Ubuntu Launchpad PPA, short for Launchpad Personal Package Archives, is announced for August 22 this year. It is designed as not only a simple build service but will be capable of providing updates as well. Ubuntu hopes to attract more application developers to use this service so that developers and users come together more closely. This does remind me of OpenSuse Build...