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Alex Murray
27 June 2022

What’s new in Security for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS?

Ubuntu Security

Canonical Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is the latest long term support release of Ubuntu, one of the world’s most popular Linux distributions. As a Long Term Support release, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS will be supported for 10 years, receiving both extended security updates and kernel livepatching via an Ubuntu Advantage subscription (which is free for persona ...


Igor Ljubuncic
24 June 2022

The new classic confinement in snaps – Even the classics need a change

Ubuntu Article

As part of their fundamental, security-driven design, snaps are meant to run isolated from the underlying system. In most cases, the idea works well, and granular access to system resources using the mechanism of interfaces allows snap developers to ship their applications packaged with strict confinement. However, there are some scenario ...


Hugo Huang
24 June 2022

Weave Cybersecurity into your product design

Cloud and server Article

How important security is for your application and digital services? “Very important”, this is the answer we get the most often from Product Managers and Executives. Nobody wants the malware to take advantage of the vulnerabilities of their applications. However, any access point to the internet can be an entry point for hackers. Consider ...


Massimiliano Gori
17 June 2022

New Active Directory Integration features in Ubuntu 22.04 (part 3) – Privilege Management

Desktop Article

Linux Active Directory (AD) integration is historically one of the most requested functionalities by our corporate users, and with Ubuntu Desktop 22.04, we introduced ADsys, our new Active Directory client. This blog post is part 3 of a series where we will explore the new functionalities in more detail. The latest Verizon Data Breach rep ...


Omar Ali Amin
17 June 2022

The private cloud future: Data centres as a service

Cloud and server Article

How to build a future-proof private cloud that offloads the operational complexity and allows you to focus on innovation and digital transformation. ...


Michael C. Jaeger
16 June 2022

Operator Day at Kubecon EU 2022 – recordings available!

Charms Article

The Operator Day at Kubecon EU 2022, hosted by Canonical, took place on Monday 16 May  2022. We thank everyone for attending the event. Our thanks go out especially to those who engaged with us via chat during the online event. We enjoyed answering questions and having conversations during the presentations.  If you missed Operator ...


Oliver Smith
16 June 2022

How are we improving Firefox Snap performance? Part 2

Desktop Article

Improving Firefox snap performance is one of our top priorities. In part 2 of this series, we give an update on our progress and latest fixes. ...


Vergil Yotov
15 June 2022

Master IoT software updates with validation sets on Ubuntu Core 22

Ubuntu Article

If you are packaging your IoT applications as snaps or containers, you are aware of the benefits of bundling an application with its dependencies. Publishing snaps across different operating system versions and even distributions is much easier than maintaining package dependencies. Automated IoT software updates make managing fleets of d ...


dbeamonte
15 June 2022

What you’re missing out if you don’t try Ubuntu Core 22

Internet of Things Article

Ubuntu Core is the operating system for IoT and edge Ubuntu Core, the Ubuntu flavour optimised for IoT and edge devices, has a new version available. With a 2-year release cadence, every new release is both an exciting and challenging milestone. Ubuntu Core is based on Ubuntu. It is open source, long-term supported (LTS), binary ...


Canonical
15 June 2022

Canonical Ubuntu Core 22 is now available – optimised for IoT and embedded devices

Canonical announcements Article

The ultra-secure embedded Ubuntu introduces support for real-time compute in robotics and industrial applications. 15 June 2022: Canonical today announced that Ubuntu Core 22, the fully containerised Ubuntu 22.04 LTS variant optimised for IoT and edge devices, is now generally available for download from ubuntu.com/download/iot. Combined ...


Tytus Kurek
14 June 2022

Composable infrastructure, sustainable computing and more: OIS 2022 highlights

Cloud and server Article

OIS 2022 is over, but the OpenInfra community stays tuned for the next OpenInfra Summit, taking place in Vancouver in 2023! This year’s summit in Berlin offered a lot of insightful keynotes and technical sessions. Speakers discussed the most recent trends in the industry, including composable infrastructure and sustainable computing, and ...