Ubuntu
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS lands with 12 years of support, Active Directory, other additions
“Improved syscall performance, nested KVM support on ppc64el, and access to the newly landed bcachefs filesystem" < Do you speak the lingo?
Ubuntu
Password-leaking Ubuntu bug sat silent for 11 years
A newly-discovered Linux bug could allow for password leaks. Worse yet, it has sat undiscovered in the OS for the last 11 years
Ubuntu
Canonical’s newly GA “MicroCloud” aims to take a small bite out of vSphere
MicroCloud can scale from three servers to around 50-node clusters and it is lightweight enough, claims Canonical, to run on a developer laptop.
Enterprise IT
Ubuntu wants your CIO to love a Lunar Lobster
Canonical comes gunning for Windows, with a little help from Microsoft...
Featured
Job of the Week: CISO, Canonical
Canonical, sponsor of the widely used Ubuntu Linux distribution, is looking for a new Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) with the role advertised as fully remote. The Stack is making it our latest Job of the Week*. We are doing so with the caveat that the privately held company is
Enterprise IT
Ubuntu Pro is GA: 10 years' support for OS, optional support for 23k packages
Welcome stability for users and a canny move by Canonical
Featured
Bad Ubuntu update crashes global Azure Kubernetes services
Canonical pulls update, as MS suggests rebooting affected VMs.
Enterprise IT
Ubuntu Core 22 goes GA: Thanks for the... Shrimp?
Edge OS gets a new release as Canonical eyes more IoT opportunities
Cybersecurity
Ubuntu vulnerabilities allow escalation to root: time to patch
LPEs give any user root, but...
Enterprise IT
Canonical extends support for 14.04 (Trusty Tahr), 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)
Trusty Tahr and Xenial Xerus get to live for 10 years...