Cloud computing is moving some of your local computer tasks into internet via webservices, such as office application and data storage. One of the classic examples, GoogleApp, there is a set of office applications which are similar with your MS Office. But they are running on their servers instead of running in your local computer.

Those servers are a huge processing tasks. None of single server can handle those kind of jobs. So, normally, cloud computing will run on a cloud platform. The clould platform is using grid computing, therefore, grouping a set of computers to form a cluster. Not many companies are providing this kind of service at this moment. As far as I know, Amazon has their EC2 which I hear the most of people are talking about, and from Rackspace, I have mentioned in my early blog post.

Generally, that is relative new concepts and it is still evolving

There is my opensource system:
OS:
Ubunut 8.10
Office Application:
OpenOffice 3.0
Photo Editing:
GIMP
Database:
MySql
Application Development:
Mono 1.9.1
Email client:
Evolution

I installed a program for Podcasting in Ubuntu. It calls gPodder. That is very light weight and supporting multi-downloads. But the major weakness is you cannot categorize your Podcast subscriptions.

I just built a VM with Xubuntu. That is design for low spec computer. I aimed to use that for my laptop. So, I only gave 512 MB and 10GB. Comparing with others distributions I got. That is much faster and the interface is nice and clean.

Too bad, I have not time to move that to my laptop for testing tonight.

All menu shortcuts for Openoffice 3.0 will be gone after an automatic update from Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10. Because I installed my Openoffice 3.0 manually. What I did to recover that. Uninstall openoffice 3.0 and reinstall again.