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Blog posts tagged
"Xenial Xerus"

Canonical
3 May 2021

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS transitions to Extended Security Maintenance (ESM)

Cloud and server Article

This article was updated in September 2021 to reflect the new lifecycle of 16.04. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS ‘Xenial Xerus’ transitions into the extended security maintenance (ESM) support phase at the end of April 2021 from its standard, five-year maintenance window for Ubuntu long term support (LTS) releases. Xenial Xerus is still supported until ...

Igor Ljubuncic
23 March 2021

How does Ubuntu 16.04 entering Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) affect snap publishers?

Cloud and server Article

At the end of April, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS will reach the end of its five years of mainstream support and enter the Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) phase. If you’re a snap developer, and you have built or based your snaps on Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) packages and libraries, you may want to know how this milestone ...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
8 March 2021

ROS Kinetic and Ubuntu 16.04 EOL: how to mitigate the impact

Robotics Article

For more than ten years, the Robot Operating System (ROS) has been enabling innovators around the world to develop their robot platforms and applications. Through its collection of tools, libraries, and conventions, ROS simplifies the task of creating complex and robust robot behaviour.  Ubuntu has been the primary platform for ROS from t ...

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 ...

Will Cooke
1 December 2017

Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: December 1, 2017

Desktop Article

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 messy, so we have proposed a fix upstream and this should be merged soon. Theme The community theme topic has been very busy on the hub. Yesterday we ...

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
15 April 2016

Docker 1.10 with Fan Networking in Ubuntu 16.04

Cloud and server Article

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 Networking!That’s Ubuntu Docker binaries and Ubuntu Docker images for:armhf (rpi2, et al. IoT devices)arm64 (Cavium, et al. servers)i686 (does anyone seriously still run 32-bit intel se ...

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 ...