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Blog posts tagged
"Xenial Xerus"


Will Cooke
22 June 2018

A first look at desktop metrics

Desktop Article

We first announced our intention to ask users to provide basic, not-personally-identifiable system data back in February.  Since then we have built the Ubuntu Report tool and integrated it in to the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS initial setup tool.  You can see an example of the data being collected on the Ubuntu Report Github page. At first ...


Canonical
6 December 2017

Kernel Team Summary – December 6, 2017

Cloud and server Article

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 is a difficult thing to do because we don’t definitively know what will be going into the upstream kernel over the next 6 months nor the quality ...


Canonical
18 October 2017

Kernel Team Summary – October 18th, 2017

Cloud and server Article

Development (Artful / 17.10) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtfulAardvark/ReleaseSchedule Important upcoming dates: Ubuntu 17.10 Release – Oct 19 (~1 days away) We intend to target a 4.13 kernel for the Ubuntu 17.10 release. A 4.13.4 based kernel is available for testing from the artful-proposed pocket of the Ubuntu archive. Stable (Released & ...


Canonical
11 October 2017

Kernel Team Summary- October 11, 2017

Cloud and server Article

October 04 through October 09 Development (Artful / 17.10) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtfulAardvark/ReleaseSchedule Important upcoming dates: Final Freeze – Oct 12 (~2 days away) Ubuntu 17.10 – Oct 19 (~1 week away) We intend to target a 4.13 kernel for the Ubuntu 17.10 release. A 4.13.4 based kernel is available for testing from the artfu ...


Canonical
4 October 2017

Kernel Team Summary – October 4, 2017

Cloud and server Article

September 25 through October 03 Development (Artful / 17.10) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtfulAardvark/ReleaseSchedule Important upcoming dates: Kernel Freeze – Oct 5 (~1 day away) Final Freeze – Oct 12 (~1 week away) Ubuntu 17.10 – Oct 19 (~2 week away) We intend to target a 4.13 kernel for the Ubuntu 17.10 release. A 4.13.4 based kernel i ...


Canonical
20 April 2016

Canonical unveils 6th LTS release of Ubuntu with 16.04

Cloud and server News

Introduces “snaps” for new robust, secure app format Introduces LXD pure-container hypervisor with OpenStack Mitaka Supports IBM Z and LinuxONE systems with flat pricing Steps towards converged Ubuntu across IOT, Phone, Desktop and Server Introduces ZFS and CephFS for large-scale cloud storage LONDON 20th April 2016: Canonical announced t ...


Dustin Kirkland
16 February 2016

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

Cloud and server Article

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 — baked directly into Ubuntu — supported by Canonical.What is ZFS?ZFS is a combination of a vol ...