#ubuntu

#ubuntu

A few months ago, I decided to breathe new life into a 2019 Dell XPS 15 that had been collecting dust for a couple of years. Despite its (at the time) high-end Core i7 CPU and 32GB of RAM, Windows was frustratingly slow on it. The fan was constantly at full throttle even when the machine was idle, and it regularly failed to install updates.

Canonical, Ubuntu Linux's parent company, is the most visible Linux and open-source business in Vegas. While neither Canonical nor anyone else is showing off a new Linux desktop, the company, in partnership with Nvidia, is demonstrating Ubuntu Linux running on the NVIDIA DGX Spark. This is a desktop supercomputer featuring an Nvidia GB10 Grace Blackwell superchip with 128 GB of RAM and 4 TB of storage for $3,999. Now, this is my kind of desktop PC.

Ubuntu is based on Debian, and hundreds of distributions are based on Ubuntu. They are both known for their stability. Ubuntu and Debian, however, are not the same. Which should you choose? I've been using Ubuntu-based distributions for a very long time. Currently, my distribution of choice is Pop!_OS, but I've also used Zorin OS, elementary OS, Ubuntu, Bodhi Linux, Linux Mint, and a host of others along the way.

Ubuntu Summit Doom takes place on Mars, but up until recently, it has only been played on Earth. However, at the Ubuntu Summit, one enterprising developer explained how he extended the well-established "will it run Doom?" meme all the way into space. When it was first introduced, id Software's Doom demanded a fairly capable 486 PC, and its ability to offer head-to-head play over an IPX/SPX LAN was radical - and brought down a few such networks.

"Canonical is the number-one Cloud OS provider in the market with the Ubuntu containers, and VMware by Broadcom, with our VCF Foundation, is the number-one private cloud platform," said Prashanth Shenoy, VP of product marketing, VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) division of Broadcom, during a media briefing. "So those two organizations coming together really helps our customers build Kubernetes-based modern applications."

Canonical has introduced certified OpenJDK builds, committing to up to 12 years of security support for all OpenJDK Long Term Support (LTS) releases.

Canonical is introducing its own builds of OpenJDK and providing extended support for them via Ubuntu Pro, along with new containers for OpenJRE 8, 17, and 21.

"After discussion between Intel and Canonical's security teams, we are in agreement that Spectre no longer needs to be mitigated for the Ubuntu users on Intel systems."

FunOS is based on Ubuntu LTS, utilizing Joe's Window Manager for performance, and features a minimalist approach to enhance security.