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Chad Smith
15 May 2019

Ubuntu Server development summary – 15 May 2019

Cloud and server Article

Hello Ubuntu Server The purpose of this communication is to provide a status update and highlights for any interesting subjects from the Ubuntu Server Team. If you would like to reach the server team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-server channel on Freenode. Alternatively, you can sign up and use the Ubuntu Server Team ...


Alex Murray
14 May 2019

Ubuntu updates to mitigate new Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) vulnerabilities

Cloud and server Article

Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) describes a group of vulnerabilities (CVE-2018-12126, CVE-2018-12127, CVE-2018-12130, and CVE-2019-11091) in various Intel microprocessors, which allow a malicious process to read various information from another process which is executing on the same CPU core. This occurs due to the use of various m ...


Alan Pope
11 May 2019

Publish Your Unity Games in the Snap Store

Ubuntu Article

We often feature and promote applications and games in the Snap Store and via our social media channels. Perhaps unsurprisingly, games are popular among our followers, and our users. There are a few great games already in the Snap Store, but there’s always room for more! Snap lends itself well to packaging and distributing free ...


Martin Wimpress
10 May 2019

Fresh snaps for April 2019

Desktop Article

April was another exciting month for the Snapcraft team with Microsoft releasing Visual Studio Code as a snap. As usual, we had hundreds of other new apps come to the snap store and here are a few of our favourites. MiniZinc is a free and open-source constraint modeling language. Model constraint satisfaction and optimization problems ...


Canonical
7 May 2019

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS has transitioned to ESM support

Cloud and server Article

Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) is now available for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS to provide ongoing security patches for high and critical CVEs for UA Infrastructure customers. ...


Will Cooke
7 May 2019

19.04 ‘Disco Dingo’ now available as optimised desktop image for Hyper-V

Ubuntu Article

Running Ubuntu as a virtual machine continues to be a popular way to use the desktop. Back in September 2018 we announced the availability of optimised 18.04 LTS desktop images for Microsoft’s Hyper-V gallery bring a host of benefits including: Improved clipboard integration Dynamic desktop resizing Shared folders for easy host/guest file ...


Canonical
6 May 2019

Canonical announces support for Ubuntu on Windows Subsystem for Linux 2

Canonical announcements Article

May 6, 2019: Canonical today announces full support for Ubuntu on the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 2. “Extending enterprise support for Ubuntu from Azure to Windows workstations and servers creates a seamless operating environment for Ubuntu in the Microsoft environment,” said Stephan Fabel, Director of Product at Canonical. “Collabo ...


Thibaut Rouffineau
1 May 2019

Ubuntu at Internet of Things World 2019

Ubuntu Article

Date: May 13/16Location: Santa Clara Convention Center, CA, USABooth: 1708 Four years ago Canonical launched Ubuntu Core at Internet of Things World. The last four years have seen Ubuntu not only build a name for itself in IoT but also impose itself as a leading Embedded Linux, as highlighted in the latest Eclipse Developer survey. ...


Thibaut Rouffineau
1 May 2019

Canonical at Cephalocon Barcelona 2019

Cloud and server Article

Date: May 19-20 Location: Fira Gran Via, Barcelona, Spain This second Cephalocon event will be a celebration of Ceph and share a number of insights into Ceph in operations. Among the 800 storage technologists present, you can meet the Canonical team, to discuss our involvement in the Ceph project, such as: Ceph inclusion in Ubuntu ...


Chad Smith
30 April 2019

Ubuntu Server development summary – 30 April 2019

Cloud and server Article

Hello Ubuntu Server The purpose of this communication is to provide a status update and highlights for any interesting subjects from the Ubuntu Server Team. If you would like to reach the server team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-server channel on Freenode. Alternatively, you can sign up and use the Ubuntu Server Team ...


Canonical
19 April 2019

Announcing OpenJDK 11 packages in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Canonical announcements open source

OpenJDK 11 is the default JRE/JDK for 18.04 LTS and is covered under LTS upstream security support. OpenJDK 11 will be the default package for the upcoming 19.04 release. ...