Ubuntu’s long-term support releases just got even longer, with Canonical today announcing they are eligible for up to 12 years of security coverage from initial release. As you know, every Ubuntu LTS release receives 5 […]
Next time you stop by Launchpad.net you’ll notice it has a new look. Canonical’s designers have given Launchpad’s landing page a lithe new look that allows text to breathe and is more in-keeping with Canonical’s […]
Canonical may be ramping up its efforts to improve the Ubuntu gaming experience — yasss — but it seems their Steam snap package is causing a few headaches for Valve. Timothée Besset, a software engineer […]
Stéphane Graber has announced his resignation from Canonical after 12 years of working at the company, mostly on LXD. His announcement follows news last week that Canonical had taken the LXD project in-house after years […]
Canonical has taken full control of the LXD project. A short statement posted on the Linux Containers website states: “The LXD project is no longer part of the LinuxContainers project but can now be found […]
Next time you stop by the Snapcraft website you’ll notice it has undergone a revamp. Canonical unveiled the changes today saying it “embarked on a project to redesign snapcraft.io and give it a more modern look”. This […]
Ubuntu 23.10 is aiming to ship the CUPS printing stack as a snap package. Canonical’s Till Kamppeter, who is also the project lead for the OpenPrinting Project, says he wants to “…switch Ubuntu 23.10, the […]
Ubuntu 23.04 is now officially available for StarFive’s VisionFive 2, a powerful RISC-V single-board computer. Canonical worked with StarFive’s engineering team to create an optimised version of the latest Ubuntu release for use on the […]
Ubuntu Pro subscribers will be able to apply reboot-free updates to more Linux kernels from July. As spotted by our friends at Neowin, Canonical announced Livepatch support for Hardware Enablement (HWE) kernels starting this summer. […]
Got a time-sensitive workload that would benefit from the reliability and security of Ubuntu? Well, you're in luck – Real-time Ubuntu is now available.
Canonical has made Ubuntu Pro generally available. Ubuntu Pro allows you to run an Ubuntu LTS release for 10 years with more critical security updates.
Things were looking promising for ZFS on Ubuntu. In 2019 Ubuntu was the first major Linux distro to offer a ZFS install option. Sadly, things have changed.