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Canonical Patches the Raspberry Pi 2 Kernel of Ubuntu 15.10 (softpedia.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the protect-ya-neck dept.

prisoninmate writes: Canonical released a patch for the Raspberry Pi 2 Linux kernel 4.2 packages of the Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) operating system, fixing four critical security issues. Canonical urges all users of the Ubuntu 15.10 operating system for Raspberry Pi 2 single-board computers to update the kernel packages to version linux-image-4.2.0-1016-raspi2 4.2.0-1016.23 as soon as possible.

16 comments

  1. wtf summary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    The kernel update is not specific to the rpi2, the summary makes no sense at all

  2. I hope it improves the speed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Even an Apple Watch is faster than a Raspberry Pi 2...

    1. Re:I hope it improves the speed by amalcolm · · Score: 4, Insightful

      But the RPi is cheaper and a LOT more useful

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    2. Re:I hope it improves the speed by LordHighExecutioner · · Score: 2

      Do you mean that the time shown by an Apple Watch flows faster than system time in a Raspberry Pi ?

    3. Re:I hope it improves the speed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Sure, if you expect it to run rings around an AMD64 box chock full of SSD disks and with a display card that by itself already costs more than that raspberry, you might be in for an unpleasant surprise.

      But I'm running Ubuntu (14.04 server) on R Pi 2's, headless / gui-less, to do some network stuff (primarily as reverse proxy), and they perform better than their price had lead me to expect.

    4. Re:I hope it improves the speed by malditaenvidia · · Score: 1

      Apple time is at least 50% thinner.

    5. Re:I hope it improves the speed by JoeMerchant · · Score: 1

      Try Raspbian instead of Ubuntu on the Pi - then add systemd for even faster boot times.

      Alternatively, try putting Ubuntu on the Apple watch and report back how fast it is then.

  3. slow news day? by jeremyhu · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why is Ubuntu releasing a software update worthy of an article?

    1. Re:slow news day? by ruir · · Score: 1

      Hey my RPI does not have an AMD CPU, I want my money back.

    2. Re:slow news day? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Isn't a software update worthy of an article worth releasing?

    3. Re:slow news day? by ChunderDownunder · · Score: 1

      distros get security updates all the time, without articles.

      I came here expecting to find that Ubuntu had partnered with the r-pi foundation to produce a range of smartphones for the Ubuntu touch platform using the innards of a raspberry pi SoC with blob-free firmware (no libhybris) following the reverse engineering efforts of Videocore and the like. (much like TI hoped to attract developer interest with the Beagleboard when OMAP ruled the smartphone landscape)

      Now *that* would be newsworthy.

  4. Clickbait by ChunderDownunder · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Mention rPi2 AND Ubuntu for double points. :)

  5. Wait... by EmeraldBot · · Score: 1

    This just looks like a routine security patch. Is the news supposed to be they weren't doing it this whole time???

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  6. Does this have anything to do with the Pi? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Looking at the security patches, I couldn't see anything specific to the Pi.

    Is this a business as usual security update, with the focus of the linked article being publicity seeking?

    Or are there Pi-specific updates in the Kernel update that justify trying Ubuntu over Raspian or perhaps Debian?

    The fact that Ubuntu updates it's kernel for the Pi at the same time as mainstream kernels could be newsworthy. Raspian is often a bit late with it's security updates compared to other distros? I suspect this Is true of Raspian version of Jessie.

  7. What should be done is... by kriston · · Score: 1

    What should be done is to produce an open-source, fully accelerated graphics driver.

    I like the Pi and Pi2 but this graphics architecture really needs to be opened up.

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