Canonical released today a new LTS version of Ubuntu, 18.04, which will be supported until April 2023. It arrives with several new features and some major changes to the user interface and experience.
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Canonical is officially ditching the Unity desktop with the release of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS today, in favor of GNOME. The new version arrives full of new features and will be supported until April 2023.
Canonical has made the decision to revert back to the Xorg display server in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, citing stability concerns. The company plans to continue testing and working on Wayland to improve it.
Canonical has disabled the SPI driver in the latest version of Ubuntu in order to stop BIOSes on computers being corrupted. The new update is classified as Ubuntu 17.10.1 and is supported until July.
Ubuntu 17.04 will reach end of life on Saturday following nine months of updates. Users of the release should be looking to move to Ubuntu 17.10 or Ubuntu 16.04 LTS before updates stop.
The popular Linux distribution, Ubuntu, will receive patches for the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities by Janurary 9th. Canonical has been hard at work over the holidays crafting a patch.
Canonical temporarily pulled the Ubuntu 17.10 release on Wednesday after users reported that their BIOS was being corrupted when installing the operating system on specific machines.
Canonical has joined the GNOME Foundation's advisory board following its decision to dump Unity and switch back to GNOME as its primary environment in Ubuntu. It'll give money and advice to GNOME.
As Ubuntu swerves into the mainstream, one of the harder decisions that Mark Shuttleworth, founder of the OS, has had to take is the abandonment of Unity. The executive explains the notion behind it.
Mark Shuttleworth, the CEO of Canonical, makers of Ubuntu, has announced the codename for the next iteration of the popular Linux distribution, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Read on to see which name was picked.
Canonical has announced the second Ubuntu release this year. Ubuntu 17.10 switches over to the GNOME desktop and Wayland display server to allow for bugs to be worked out before the next LTS release.
Canonical has released the final beta of Ubuntu 17.10. It's the last release before the release candidate which ships one week before the final release to work out any remaining issues.
Ubuntu 17.10 Artful Aardvark will not ship with a 32-bit edition leaving many older devices high and dry. Luckily other flavors of Ubuntu haven't announced anything similar so you can use those.
Ubuntu 17.10 will arrive with the GNOME desktop set to default. It looks as though Canonical has begun working on a new dock project to keep Ubuntu familiar to existing users that have used Unity.
