We're less than three weeks away from the release of Ubuntu 18.10, codenamed "Cosmic Cuttlefish," so the team at Canonical is unleashing the final beta of its Desktop, Cloud and Server versions.

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In a conference call interview, Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical's CEO and Ubuntu's founder, said, "Most public cloud instances -- Azure, AWS, Oracle, and so on -- are Ubuntu. To better support Ubuntu, 18 ...

Last week, Canonical released Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (codenamed “Bionic Beaver”), the latest long-term support version of the Ubuntu Linux distribution. Ars is working on a full review of the release, but I ...

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Canonical recently released Ubuntu 18.04, the company’s latest iteration of its popular Linux distribution, nicknamed Bionic Beaver. Ubuntu 18.04 is a Long Term Support (LTS) release and will receive ...

It’s October which means that we were due an Ubuntu release and Canonical hasn’t failed us this time around. Starting now, users who want to download Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish can do so. The ...

Canonical is releasing Ubuntu 18.04 LTS today. Code-named “Bionic Beaver,” the latest version of the popular GNU/Linux distribution includes a number of updates including a newer Linux kernel, ...

Ubuntu Desktop users now have a minimalist install option, which installs only a rudimentary desktop environment, a web browser, and a few core system utilities. “Many official 18.04 desktop flavors ...

Canonical releases a new version of its popular Ubuntu operating system every six months — but most versions are only officially supported for nine months. That means if you want a stable version of ...

Microsoft Azure customers' virtual machines (VMs) running Ubuntu 18.04 have been taken offline by an ongoing outage caused by a faulty systemd update. The outage started nine hours earlier, around ...