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Because due to the way that capitalism corrodes market choice and reduces product quality, I have two viable choices for a smartphone

Translation: you want to have your cake and eat it too. No one owes you anything. You are not entitled to cheap wonderful smart phones. There's nothing in the Bill of Rights guaranteeing all citizens cheap, wonderful, feature rich smart phones. There are products on the market. Some gather usage stats. Others have more walled gardens than others. Others yet are more expensive and less feature rich. You get to choose one of these based on your criteria.

Why don't you look into Ubuntu phones? http://www.ubuntu.com/phone

What a wonderful 1st world problem we have here huh?

http://www.ubuntu.com/certific... HP also offers FreeDOS on some of their custom business laptops.

Second google hit for "ubuntu maas" (for me) was http://www.ubuntu.com/cloud/maas. But yeah, it would have been nice if the link was included in the original question.

Why, oh why do you have to send clicks to that terrible site to make me wade through drivel about The Coasters to find out... well, basically nothing.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Yakket...

How to fix your PC: http://www.ubuntu.com/download...

How do I run MS Office and Adobe CC on that?

Oh! you mean the free genuine green parrot editions of MS Office and Adobe CC?

Well, you can use "Wine" or a virtual machine running Windows 10 genuine Malware edition which you can get here for free.

How to fix your PC: http://www.ubuntu.com/download...

How do I run MS Office and Adobe CC on that?

Snap is an alternative package manager which is a container. It includes the APIs and dependencies making it more portable to use than .Deb's. I believe it is how WSL for Windows 10 got ported.

You can find more information here

Linus (or rather, the linux foundation) should sue for slander for anyone calling it "linux under windows."

Still a dumb decisions when they could have simply http://www.ubuntu.com/phone. If a phone can run Android it can run Linux, for what should be obvious reasons and hence a custom rolled solution makes more sense (a tweaked protocol offset system, so only apps allowed to run can run or be installed succesfully). Basically when supply numbers are high enough customer demands can be pushed quite economically, to produce a range of products that provide optimum solutions. So physically durable phones running the core Linux operating system (no Android layer on top), only upgradeable and patchable by the DOD, running the selected range of safe apps (need to know) and not capable of running any apps outside of DOD supplied apps for that specific range of users. That is the common sense solution, the solution chosen is just plain stupid (some admin wonk with no depth).

Oh, and I'll switch from Linux VMs to Ubuntu on Windows when Win10 Redstone comes out in a couple of weeks. Really seems like it might be the best of both worlds.

It's way more than bash on Windows - it runs almost any command line program that doesn't need Dbus now, and there are even (currently hackish) workarounds for that and X already.

At some point we are going to want drop x86_32 kernel support and just have 32-bit compatibility libraries, but I don't know when that makes sense.

Heartbleed, shellshock, or take your pick from this list of Linux malware. Here is an an excellent article on the subject with actual examples of Linux malware infections, heck even Fedora removed their "virus free" bullet point from their home page.

The problem is that Microsoft didn't _want_ that, hence "Secure Boot"

That is complete bullshit, I know the microsoft hate train is popular here but come on, even the fucking Surface, their own product that they build has SecureBoot on it doesn't prevent you from turning it off and installing Linux, ive got Ubuntu running on one right now!

Microsoft's control of the signature process

They dont control the signature process, any manufacturer of any UEFI hardware can put any signature they want into the hardware they build. Or they can include no secureboot at all or they can have controls (like pretty much every single one does) to turn secureboot off or have a mechanism to enrol new secureboot keys.

...the slow "evaporation" of the requirement for Microsoft certified machines to even _offer_ an option to disable "Secure Boot."

That is entirely at the discretion of the hardware manufacturer, why should Microsoft have to force them do to it? The biggest problem with secureboot is that it is becoming another excuse for poor linux marketshare, just blame it on secureboot. The reality is that commercial ecosystems for desktop/laptop based on Linux that include hardware vendors are already happening such as Chromebooks and Steam Machines and there is of course Dell's ongoing effort to support pre-installed Linux on the Inspiron line as well as the XPS and Precision workstation models.

So instead of spreading FUD and trying to undermine the effort to make Linux more viable and palatable to end users how about contributing to that development instead? Even if you can't write code or contribute money to the effort there is plenty of work that needs doing in documentation.

Their development image is rolling release: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam...

https://www.debian.org/
https://devuan.org/
http://redhat.com/
http://www.ubuntu.com/
https://www.suse.com/
https://getfedora.org/

To list just a few...

MS is just making the choice more binary - either you choose to let them do anything they want with your computer, or you choose to let them do NOTHING.

This solution worked for me on ubuntu 16.04 with kernel from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kern...: https://www.phoronix.com/forum...

They should add the ability so sync contacts and calendars using CardDAV and CalDAV.

This has been an issue for some time, the discussion between Ubuntu Phone users has been going on for a while, as can be seen here, for example.

A related bug report (open since 2013) can be seen here.

For now, a Google account is the only option the GUI allows to sync contacts and calendars. If you're doing that, what is the point in using Ubuntu on the phone, might as well use Android.

I'm aware that syncevolution can be used on the phone's command line but really, adding an OwnCloud server (for example) should not require enabling developer mode and adding scripts setting up cron jobs. This very simple omission is what's keeping me from using Ubuntu on the phone. I'd quite like to keep my data from Google or Apple or Microsoft and I fail to see why the management team behind Ubuntu Touch can't see this use - I know I'm far from the only one.

By the way you can easily install Ubuntu on a Nexus 4 using the images provided. It's a fairly ok to use - certainly miles ahead of FirefoxOS - but I was hoping they would have implemented this by now, I first tried it at release 9 so they've had 2 major opportunities to enable it.

You don't need special magic entropy cards, there's entropy all around most computers in the form of white noise - just use randomsound. Solves the problem on most laptops because they have a built in mic.

I ran into entropy problems when signing a lot of JAR files in a build process - turns out modern computers with their large RAM that caches disk etc don't generate as much entropy as they used to.

The solution I used was the randomsound daemon, which samples white noise from your mic to inject into your entropy pool.

Why not just use that? There's a crapload of white noise in most server rooms, even near most consumer PCs (just tape a mic next to one of the cooling vents). Actual genuine entropy rather than this card-shuffled pseudo entropy - making things complex just obscures things further, it doesn't really create randomness.

Kernel Mainline. Use at your own risk.
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kern...

I would bet this will end up in the proposed soon and land in the official repositories in a few weeks. The LTS usually get new kernels as they are released, but you have to select the appropriate LTS kernel meta-packages.

Put differently, how many people are going to spend $31 to try out this thing called Linux?

$31 is the price for a 128GB, you don't need anywhere even close to that much space for a Linux install. Plus we've had live cds/dvds for many many years and now even have an online way to try Linux. The barrier to entry is ridiculously low, if the uptake isn't happening then most definitely something else is the problem.

developers can't rely on there being a small number of canonical user interfaces they can write for.

I thought Unity was the canonical user interface. At least it's the one that Canonical pushed down GNOME 2 users' throats in Ubuntu 11.10.

Quietly implies that there isn't any outward announcement., but there's a relatively official statement by Canonical on this. That's about as official as you can get for something that's not all that newsworthy.

The package for webbrowser-app (which is where the Amazon search lens comes from; BTW it's off by default in 16.04) is 765.9 kB. See: http://packages.ubuntu.com/xen...

Welcome Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus! If not yet read, here comes the installation of Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus web hosting server with Apache2, Postfix, Dovecot, Bind and PureFTPD to prepare it for the installation of ISPConfig 3.1. The resulting system will provide a Web, Mail, Mailinglist, DNS and FTP Server. However, brand new ServerSuit hosting control with remote cross-platform control is equally capable and allows you to configure the services through a web browser, such as Apache or nginx web server, Postfix mail server, etc.

Why do you anti systemd trolls keep lying when it's so easy to prove you wrong? All one have to do is look at the File List of the mongodb-server package in Ubuntu 16.04LTS: http://packages.ubuntu.com/xen... and what do we find there:

/lib/systemd/system/mongodb.service

Well I be damned, a systemd unit file, which you now have claimed in several articles does not exist even though it does. Interesting isn't it?

Guys, I think you're getting the intent of the story wrong. It's not an X11 security problem. It's primarily a PR problem for Ubuntu & secondarily, it's a security problem for snaps.

Ubuntu has been promoting snaps as a more secure way of packaging
https://insights.ubuntu.com/20...

And the research that Matthew Garret has done has demonstrated that the security provided by the snaps framework is not terribly good. So that's a PR problem for Ubuntu if one of the primary features they are advertising is demonstrated not to be fit for purpose. Personally I don't think that Ubuntu cares much about the security aspect of snaps. I think they care more about convenience and monetary gain. And I don't have a problem with either of those motivations.

in.re. convenience: The apt package management system has many benefits, but it has problems with software development projects that run at different cadences. Remember when Ubuntu 8.04 LTS shipped with Firfox 3 beta? The apt system would lock you into the beta version for the life of the release. With snaps, you could upgrade just one application (like Firefox or Libre Office) without upgrading all of the libraries on your OS or upgrading your OS as a whole. I think that's pretty useful.

in.re. monetary gain: Canonical has poured a lot of effort and money into Linux over the course of a decade. I wouldn't mind seeing them reap the rewards of their efforts in a monetary form. It looks like they want to run an AppStore to do this & an app-store just won't integrate well with apt. But it will with snaps. So good on them.

I would just like them to be a bit more open about their motivations. I don't think the release of snaps has much to do with a desire for security, at least in a desktop environment.

First goddamn result: Build apps | Ubuntu developer portal

Haha I see a 'Snappy Store', I get the impression this is Ubuntu's attempt at a play store similar to android and other smart phone ecosystems. Developers can 'sell' their apps to Ubuntu users.

I have an android tablet, and the 'free' apps are usually littered with ads or constant nags to 'buy additional content features'. No thanks Ubuntu.

Scroll down for the release notes on

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xenial...

I've skimmed over it, and truthfully, I don't see major changes for my use case (normal desktop user of Kubuntu).

ur google skillz suck, maestro.
https://www.google.com/search?q=snap+ubuntu&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

First goddamn result: Build apps | Ubuntu developer portal

And how/why is it better than deb/rpm/tgz?

I found this: https://insights.ubuntu.com/20... but is it full of marketing speak without any real information as to what a snap actually is and how it is better. Sounds kind of like Canonical doing the not-invented-here thing for packaging.

You're aware they're counting OpenStack deployments and Amazon EC2 VM instances, right? Those are not systems or services typically used by those "relatively new to computing." And that you seem to be dismissing Ubuntu as a toy OS speaks more to your ignorance of their full product lineup than anything else.

... choose manual partitioning ("Something-else" option), then select Ubuntu system partition, set its mount point as "/". Be sure to keep the same format type, the same size, and untick the "Format" checkbox or all data on "/" will be deleted!. Also set other partitions (/boot, /home... see DiskSpace) if needed.

This is an extremely dangerous way to reinstall.

I see a lot of comments like "I would use Ubuntu but Unity sucks" or "I was an Ubuntu fan until Unity ruined it." If Budgie-Ubuntu becomes an official flavor, that will bring the number of officially supported DEs up to 7: MATE, KDE Plasma, Xfce (which is actually supported in two separate official flavors, Xubuntu and Ubuntu Studio), LXDE, GNOME 3, Unity, and Budgie. There is also some talk of making Enlightenment and Cinnamon officially supported. (See: http://www.ubuntu.com/download... )

Such a long discussion, seems like you people have been waiting for it for ages))) To upgrade to Ubuntu 16.04 Final Beta from Ubuntu 15.10 go https://help.ubuntu.com/commun.... Read how to operate through GUI : https://serversuit.com/communi...

MS emulated Linux system calls to run Linux apps natively. They created the inverse of WINE. https://insights.ubuntu.com/20...

The following article has more technical insights. https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/03/30/ubuntu-on-windows-the-ubuntu-userspace-for-windows-developers

Basically, this is a Windows Subsystem for Linux. The article claimed it is using some technology from MS Research to translate the Linux syscalls to Windows syscalls (probably the Detours group and other OS team members, if I had to bet). The nice part here it is avoids what doomed the older Subsystem for Unix, having to compile apps. This subsystem just runs ELF binaries, intercepting and rewriting syscalls as needed. That's the new piece.

It'll be interesting to see how far they try to push it.

"Haupter told Caixin that it features fewer of Microsoft's consumer-targeted apps and services .. while including more management and security controls, in accordance with the needs of China's government."

If you don't want the Chinese Government or Microsoft telling you what to do with your own computer then move to Open Source Linux. Ubuntu

How about xbuntu?
http://xubuntu.org/
Here is a whole list of options
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ubuntu...

gcc 5.3.1 see there: http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/gcc

That seems to be a fairly misleading statement

Windows 7 isn't just a "Kernel", it's an Operating System. Ditto for FreeBSD 7. While the kernel may be the core of an OS, userland certainly plays a significant part as well, particular for a desktop OS. For example, on a Win7 64-bit machine, the actual kernel would probably be something like "6.1.7601.17592"

So comparing those three, it would be more fair to use something like a Linux distribution/version from that era, such as
* "Ubuntu Jaunty Jackelope" (EOL Oct 2010)
* "Debian Lenny" (Archived Feb 2011)
* RHEL6 (Production good until 2020, extended life-support not listed yet).

Because 14.04 is the latest LTS (Long Term Support) version released https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS

All I want to know is why I need to reboot my OS every time I do an Ubuntu update. It didn't use to be necessary.

Because Ksplice was acquired by Oracle: http://www.zdnet.com/article/o...
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ksplic...

Then, how do I recompile a custom kernel and with UEFI Boot and Secure Boot run it?

Depends on how your distro of choice has implemented Secure Boot.

All of the distros with official support are using a shim derived from Red Hat's. That shim is a very simple bootloader which maintains compliance with Secure Boot by only chaining on to verified binaries, but it allows the use of an additional public key which has been compiled in to the binary. Anyone who finds it worth the $99 can have their build signed by Microsoft and will then be able to boot anything signed with the associated private key on top of anything signed with the Microsoft keys the system has built in. It also provides a method to pass the public key down the chain so the next stage bootloader, kernel, and beyond can verify with it as well.

Fedora and Ubuntu stop here. Fedora signs GRUB2 with their key which then verifies the kernel, which then verifies the modules. ( http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12... ) Ubuntu jumped on a loophole in the wording of the Secure Boot spec to just use their key to sign a bootloader which will then happily launch an unsigned kernel. ( https://lists.ubuntu.com/archi... )

Suse took things a step further and expanded the shim to support a local key list in the UEFI configuration area. ( https://www.suse.com/communiti... ). Now even a system that lacks the ability to add keys to the firmware's verification process can run a fully signed boot process with custom keys.

Finally one of the main original developers on the shim who has since left Red Hat took Suse's key management code, mixed it with his own continued tinkering, and added a user interface that comes up if you attempt to boot a signed binary that doesn't match an approved key, allowing the user to browse for a key on any accessible storage and add it to the system. ( http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/20... )

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So the answer depends on your distro. If you're running Ubuntu, you just compile your new kernel and go have fun because Ubuntu's not yet verifying the kernel (this is apparently becoming optional in 16.04). If you're running Suse, you use whatever tool they offer to add a key to their shim's list. If you're running Fedora, you replace their shim with one of the other variants and either add a key of your own or just go Ubuntu-style and drop it at the kernel.

Of course this is all assuming your system doesn't allow you to change the keys, which I know is a valid theoretical possibility but I still haven't encountered in the real world.

The updated kernel was released yesterday. Why are you still using 3.19? You can upgrade to 4.2 via LTS Enablement Stack...
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel...

Cause it works just fine for him? Anyway with 16.04 coming in April he could to a LTS->LTS upgrade without worrying about any possible complications with the HWE which has affected some users in the past when they attempted to upgrade.

The updated kernel was released yesterday. Why are you still using 3.19? You can upgrade to 4.2 via LTS Enablement Stack... https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel...

"The CDDL cannot apply to the Linux kernel because zfs.ko is a self-contained file system module — the kernel itself is quite obviously not a derivative work of this new file system." ref

Cinnamon (2.6.13) is available in Ubuntu universe repositories. For me, apt-get wants to install 88 additional packages when installing that meta package.

http://packages.ubuntu.com/wil...

I haven't tried to use it so I have no idea if works well.

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They wouldn't replace Unity with Cinnamon in the primary version of Ubuntu, but given they have no problems distributing versions of Ubuntu with KDE, GNOME 3, XFCE, LXDE, and even MATE (the other thing that came out of the Unity sucks movement), I don't see why they wouldn't do a Cinnamon version if there was a community willing to maintain it.