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Kernel Team Summary – December 6, 2017

by Canonical on 6 December 2017

November 21 through December 04 Development (18.04) Every 6 months the Ubuntu Kernel Team is tasked to pick the kernel to be used in the next release. This...

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Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: December 1, 2017

by Will Cooke on 1 December 2017

GNOME GNOME Disk Utility If you have snaps installed and open the Disks utility, your snaps appear as loop devices. We found this to be confusing and a bit...

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Kernel Team Summary – October 18th, 2017

by Canonical on 18 October 2017

Development (Artful / 17.10) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtfulAardvark/ReleaseSchedule Important upcoming dates: Ubuntu 17.10 Release – Oct 19 (~1 days away) We...

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Kernel Team Summary- October 11, 2017

by Canonical on 11 October 2017

October 04 through October 09 Development (Artful / 17.10) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtfulAardvark/ReleaseSchedule Important upcoming dates: Final Freeze –...

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Kernel Team Summary – October 4, 2017

by Canonical on 4 October 2017

September 25 through October 03 Development (Artful / 17.10) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtfulAardvark/ReleaseSchedule Important upcoming dates: Kernel Freeze –...

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Canonical unveils 6th LTS release of Ubuntu with 16.04

by Canonical on 20 April 2016

Introduces “snaps” for new robust, secure app format Introduces LXD pure-container hypervisor with OpenStack Mitaka Supports IBM Z and LinuxONE systems with...

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Docker 1.10 with Fan Networking in Ubuntu 16.04

by Dustin Kirkland on 15 April 2016

I’m thrilled to introduce Docker 1.10.3, supported on every Ubuntu architecture, for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and announce the General Availability of Ubuntu Fan...

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ZFS is *the* FS for Containers in Ubuntu 16.04!

by Dustin Kirkland on 16 February 2016

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial) is only a few short weeks away, and with it comes one of the most exciting new features Linux has seen in a very long time…ZFS —...