Hello, I am installing Hadoop components via DEB packages (I do not want to use Ambari to manage cluster). But I am missing fancy web-interface Hue provides to monitor job progress per user (list of user's jobs, % completed, logs, etc), because Hue is not supported on Ubuntu. We used Hue as a replacement for very poor standard YARN web interface. Is it possible to use Ambari for that? Thanks in advance! ... View more

In your documentation, you mention that Java 8 is also supported. But according to hadoop documentation, they mention only Java 7, and there is a separate branch of Hadoop where they do porting to Java 8 (and hadoop-2.8 is expected to be first release with Java 8 support). How is it possible you support Java 8 with (currently) hadoop-2.7.1? Do you backport their changes from Java8 branch? Thanks. ... View more

In documentation I see that only Ubuntu 12.04 is supported (but it's rather old). Will you support 14.04 or 16.04? In Hue installation guide you write that it is not supported on Ubuntu (even 12.04). Why? Should I avoid Ubuntu? ... View more