Today is launch day forUbuntu 24.04,Noble Numbat. Congratulations to our friends at Canonical. I’d say it’s an auspicious day, but it is more noble than that! In fact, it is the first time that a .NET release is available from day one in the official Ubuntu feeds. There is no ne...
Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu) is keen to push its users towards Snaps, its own version of a universal installer. So much so, that it removed out-of-the-box support for Flatpak inUbuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster, and agreed with the alternate Ubuntu flavors such asKubuntu,Lubuntu, andUbunt...
Canonical also maintains a number of “flavors” of Ubuntu, built with different desktop environments or mixes of software for specific needs. What’s new in Ubuntu 18.10 “Cosmic Cuttlefish” The latest version of Ubuntu Linux, Ubuntu 18.10 (codenamed “Cosmic Cuttlefish”) has the following ...
In this respect, other container platforms offer smarter and more flexible solutions, both for saving containers and the management of images. When is LXC used? LXC is an open-source project that is financially supported by Canonical, the company behind the Linux distribution Ubuntu. The ...
Install Sunbeam on your workstation in five simple steps. Watch our webinar and build your own cloud in under an hour. Get in touch with Canonical for commercial support on Ubuntu. Further Reading Learn more about Canonical’s open source infrastructure solutions. What is a private cloud? There...
Dockeris one of the most popular and widely used container platforms. It enables the creation and use of Linux containers. Docker is a tool which makes the creation, deployment and running of applications easier by using containers. Not only the Linux powers like Red Hat and Canonical have emb...
itself is the core component responsible for managing hardware resources and providing basic system functionalities, a Linux distribution packages the kernel with additional software, libraries, and configuration files to create a usable operating system with specific objectives or intended audiences in mind...
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Arch Linux is primarily using packman as its default package manager. Snap Snap (snappy) is a software deployment and package management system for Ubuntu and other Linux distributions. It was introduced by Canonical in version Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Snaps are a universal Linux packaging system that ha...
TheMir display servercomes with its own Mir display server protocol which differs to those used by X11 and Wayland. It was developed byCanonical, as part of the development of Unity, and was intended to be the display server of choice forUbuntu. ...