Ubuntu’s “snappy” new way of packaging applications is no longer exclusive to Ubuntu. Canonical today is announcing that snapd, the tool that allows snap packages to be installed on Ubuntu, has been ported to other Linux distributions including Debian, Arch, Fedora, and Gentoo, among others. If you have no idea what the above paragraph means, here’s a summary. Traditionally, applications for Ubuntu and similar...
Canonical, the maker of Ubuntu, has been fending off criticism from privacy advocates because the desktop search tool in recent versions of the operating system also searches the Internet. That means if you're searching your desktop for a file or application, you might also see results from Amazon or other websites. One person who dislikes Canonical's search tool is Micah Lee, a technologist at...
Ubuntu today became the latest Linux vendor to patch a vulnerability in the open source operating system’s kernel that could have left the door open for hackers to find their way into users’ machines. In an email sent overnight, the Linux vendor warned users to update all machines running recent versions of Ubuntu, ranging from 6.06, which was released back in mid-2006, to version...
Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” is released. It is a LTS (Long Term Support) release of the worlds most popular Linux distribution. It features Xorg 7.3, kernel 2.6.24 and GNOME 2.22. Other new features are PolicyKit and PulseAudio. It has virtualization, Active Directory integration, iSCSI support, etc. Download: Ubuntu 8.04 Changes: 8.04 Features Homepage: Ubuntu
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