Canonical is currently promoting a beta Ubuntu Pro for Desktop programme through the Software & Updates app on Ubuntu LTS releases. But what is it?
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Due for release on April 21st, 2022, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) is currently under heavy development, and it will be Canonical’s next long-term supported (LTS) series, which will receive software and security updates for at least 5 years. Being an LTS series, Ubuntu 22.04 will be a more conservative release, like all previous Ubuntu […]
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Ubuntu Desktop on Raspberry Pi arrived officially with the Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla) release, but it was only recommended for the Raspberry Pi 4 models with 4GB or 8GB RAM, Raspberry Pi 400, as well as Raspberry Pi CM4 (Compute Module 4). Well, that’s about to change as Canonical wants to make Ubuntu Desktop work […]
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Canonical is making changes to the system used for creating Snap apps, outlining its plans in a blog titled ‘The Future of Snapcraft’. More details inside.
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Still based on the Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS release from Canonical, the Linux Lite 5.8 distribution release promises updated components, bug fixes, and many other tweaks and changes. Learn what to expect in the new release and test it now.
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Can Ubuntu reclaim its gaming crown? Based on a new job opening added to its careers page, Canonical thinks to. Ubuntu’s chief sponsor is recruiting a “Linux Desktop Gaming Product Manager” whose job will be to ”…make Ubuntu the best …
Ubuntu 21.04 will reach end of life on January 20th, 2022. At that time, Canonical will stop offering updates for the Hirsute Hippo release. Powered by Linux kernel 5.11 and built around the GNOME 3.38 desktop environment series (with support for GNOME 40 apps), Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) also introduced PipeWire support, nftables as the […]
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In this article, you will learn about some Ubuntu 22.04 features of the upcoming Ubuntu stable release. Canonical’s latest iteration to the Ubuntu operating system is Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish, scheduled for release on April 21, 2022. This is an LTS (long-term support) release – the type of release that Canonical only publishes every two […]
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The company behind Ubuntu has updated Multipass to version 1.8, a release that introduces support for setting up and running Ubuntu virtual machines on Apple M1 MacBook devices with minimal effort. In fact, Multipass 1.8 promises to offer Apple M1 MacBook developers interesting apps for the Linux/Ubuntu desktop. This will be the fastest way to […]
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Canonical has released new Ubuntu Linux kernel security updates across its portfolio. Available for Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri), Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo), Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa), Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver), and the Ubuntu 16.04 and 14.04 ESM (Extended Security Maintenance) release, the new security updates address CVE-2021-3759, a vulnerability that could allow a […]
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Shortly after the release of the stable version of Ubuntu 21.10, Canonical developers began developing the next release of the Ubuntu 22.04 distribution with long-term support. The new Ubuntu 22.04 LTS was code-named Jammy Jellyfish. In addition to pub…
Inspired by the Ubuntu Online Tour project created by Canonical a few years ago, Ubuntu Online 21.10 aims to give those with very limited resources the option to try the latest Ubuntu Desktop release in a web browser. Ubuntu Online works both online and offline, but for the best experience, the files need to be […]
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UnityX is the successor of the Unity7 desktop environment created by Canonical for its popular Ubuntu Linux distribution back in 2011 with the Ubuntu 11.04 release. But Canonical pulled the plug on Unity7 after seven years of development, yet the community wasn’t ready for this major change. In May 2020, developer Rudra Saraswat created an […]
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Canonical has revealed the codename for the next LTS version of Ubuntu i.e, 22.04. The Ubuntu 22.04 LTS release date has also been revealed and is set for April 22, 2022. Learn more here.
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Canonical gives Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 years more support.
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Canonical has announced the extension of support for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and 16.04 LTS versions to 10 years. This means that paying users will benefit from something that was already implemented in subsequent LTS releases of the system: 18.04 and 20.04.
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Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 16.04 just got a major support boost from Canonical. Announced today, Canonical says both releases will now get an extended 10 years of support from their original release date, up from the 5 originally provided. This commitment…
Ubuntu plans to make the Firefox Snap the default version for new installations of Ubuntu 21.10. A feature freeze exception (FFE) has been opened by Canonical’s Olivier Tilloy that seeks to replace the Firefox .deb package in the Ubuntu ‘se…
While Canonical is still working hard to finish the last details of the forthcoming Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri) release, which will see the light of day on October 14th, 2021, they are already planning on the next major release, Ubuntu 22.04. But Ubuntu 22.04 will not be an ordinary release. In fact, it will be […]
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Open source security has been a big focus of this week’s Black Hat conference, but no open source security initiative is bolder than the one proffered by the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF). Amid discussions on the security of open source technologies like eBPF and Hadoop, OpenSSF speakers Jennifer Fernick, SVP and head of global […]
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