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Ubuntu 18.04 Focuses On Security and AI Improvements (sdtimes.com)
Canonical has announced the release of its open-source Linux operating system, Ubuntu 18.04, which features security, multi-cloud, containers, and AI improvements. From a report: "Multi-cloud operations are the new normal," said Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical and founder of Ubuntu, in a statement. "Boot-time and performance-optimized images of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on every major public cloud make it the fastest and most efficient OS for cloud computing, especially for storage and compute intensive tasks like machine learning." On-premises and on-cloud AI development within Ubuntu will be improved by the integration of Kubeflow and a range of CI/CD tools into Canonical Kubernetes. Kubeflow is a machine learning library built on Kubernetes.
How about making a desktop OS that doesn’t suck more dicks than a Chinese hooker on a Tuesday night?
Can't we just make those buzzword fad things optional? Is it too much to expect that at least linux doesn't push people into some more profitable BS direction?
Kan't wait to try this release. Kount me in.
"Multi-cloud operations are the new normal"... What? I have literally no *clue* what this could possibly even mean. Are we still talking about computers? On Earth? Humans? Or is this some sort of alien technology from a different world? Multi-cloud operations? Operations? Cloud? Multi-cloud? Fuck off.
I thought there was only one cloud, "the cloud", and everything went there.
Canonical always does weird crap that splits the Linux community. Mir vs. Wayland. Snap vs. Flatpak, etc,
People need to stay away from them and use Debian or similar.
For running a hosted image in a data center, I much prefer Debian, thank you very much.
And what I believe it to mean is that many people nowadays are frequently using several different cloud services, sometimes at the same time. Which I believe is true, too. (Yes, 'cloud' is just a hip name for something that was not really new when the term was coined, but I guess we simply have to go along with it now.)
That said, I've organized my personal cloud usage via my own server running Nextcloud, which performs the task of synchronizing with all the other cloud storage services I still sometimes use, be it for easier usage on Android or for offering access to others without them hitting my DSL upstream bandwith, so I don't really need my desktop Linux to deal with it.
Then again, that server runs Ubuntu server. (Not because I am or ever was convinced it is the best choice, but because it was a well documented and well supported option back when I started to move most of my computers to Linux and I just didn't want to research even further.)
How do these announcements relate to desktop users? Besides general increased security?
I just had a quick look at the AI stuff... a load of service bloatware around tensor that appears to be drowning in its own idiot-speak buzzwords.
and use that brand new release, then let me know when most of the early bugs are fixed.
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
I use Ubuntu 16 mainly as a host machine for Virtualbox guest VMs
My wishlist for fixes is:
The screen-lock doesn't work correctly with Virtualbox -- I'll leave the PC for awhile, come back, move the mouse, then will have access to a guest VM for a little while until the host (Ubuntu) finally realizes that it probably should ask for a password
I had to force shutdown Ubuntu last night -- UI shutdown failed, logged in as root and did a halt command (also didn't work) -- held the power button for force a shutdown -- this is with a plain Dell Inspirion
Ubuntu /sometimes/ intercepts the Alt key presses instead of passing them to Virtualbox guest VMs -- makes using programs like Adobe Illustrator a little challenging
wired mouse button presses/holds are not perfectly sustained in Virtualbox guest VMs (may or may not be an Ubuntu issue)
default file explorer is buggy in numerous ways
auto-update once stopped and waited for input about a grub question -- (it did this for media drivers as well) -- I didn't know or care as to the correct answer -- if I installed it, update it -- this makes Ubuntu a no-go for my parents as I don't want to be tech support for these popup things -- it has the right ideas, but not a perfect just-work OS
They've announced the release, and released the announcement, but the software is not yet available for download....
http://alternatives.rzero.com/
That's good. I thought they were going to 3D print a blockchain and HTML it into a Bitcoin. (With some help from an AI)
http://dilbert.com/strip/2018-04-20
They say the day it'll be released, but I always assume that means first thing, and it's always like 11.59pm on that day. Sigh. I should just learn my lesson and make a note in my calendar for the day after the official release date as when I should check for it.
https://fossbytes.com/ubuntu-1...
Your post, thoughtfully constructed, with each word carefully chosen for MAXIMUM impact, was appreciated by me.
Your welcome.
My welcome, what? I don't get it...
I heard a lot of good things about Ubuntu Bare Beaver so I figured I would try it. But it's locked down tight. No matter what I tried, I couldn't root beaver. And even command line tools -- old standbys like finger, touch, unzip, mount, and shave -- gave me a permission denied error. What good is a beaver if you can't use it?
Maybe next release, Choad Cock, will be more to my liking.
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In partnership with Microsoft, Canonical will offer new Hyper-V optimized images on Windows in order to enhance the virtual machine experience of Ubuntu in Windows. Hurts my eyes, it is like trading Ebola for for AIDS.
Sticking their weenies down that ever and endlessly sucking machinery of microsoft will end up consuming them.
Now if only they could focus on cleaning up that mess of a user interface. As much as I hated Unity at first, I really appreciate the fact that they took care in compacting menu items into the global app menu while keeping the systray icons and time tucked over to the right. This allowed them to remove an entire top window bar and clean things up for people with limited vertical space(eg. laptops). Gnome feels like a complete step backwards in functionality by comparison.
Question about NextCloud: What do you think of it?
I use OwnCloud. This was just before NextCloud became practical. I considered going to NextCloud when an OwnCloud client for my aging iPad2 "upgraded" and stopped working. Ultimately I stayed with OwnCloud just to minimize complexity.
How is NextCloud in terms of maturity? Is it a drop-in replacement for OwnCloud, or does it have issues? Do you find yourself using features not available in OwnCloud? (Not that I know what those are, but the marketing text sounded promising at the time.)
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[GPG key in journal]
Ubuntu has lost its way. Pretending I am barely computer literate, I couldn't get the latest Ubuntu distro to work in a Windows network at home. All the machines are Windows 7, 10 and on the default workgroup named, "workgroup". You still have to install the Samba binaries then modify a text file. For a windows user, this can at least be done by clicking your way through it, but in Ubuntu you have to do "sudo gedit config" or some other commandline. Bottom line is that it's a total pain in the ass for the new user coming over from Windows. Making Ubuntu work as seamlessly as a Windows machine in a Windows network is a nightmare. You can't just browse the "network neighborhood" out of the box without following a bunch of not easily found or understood FAQs, most of which are outdated. Dear Ubuntu guys, please focus on the basics before you add all that cloud garbage.
...will blockchain the synergies out of AI cloud computing.
I feel so sig.
I really think this is a strong release. The notable uplift of packages to directly tackle things like the spectre and meltdown defects.
However
Ever since systemd-resolved was added to systemd in ubuntu 16.10 the resolver has been broken. Especially in local networks with dhcp and local dns.
It's basically un-usable as it stands. But a recent change in systemd-resolved makes it fairly trivial to get resolution working again.
With version 237 of systemd a stub-resolv.conf file was added. This is what the local system linked to. /etc/resolv.conf -> ../run/systemd/resolve/stub-resolv.conf
This stub file tells everything to use the resolved process for dns resolution. It's broken so things don't work.
Simply change it to this and things work again. /etc/resolv.conf -> ../run/systemd/resolve/resolv.conf
Because now they include a sensible resolv.conf as well as the broken version.
Sorry for replying this late. Just in case you find back here, too:
My impression is (not from own experience, though, but from what I read) that Nextcloud has become quite mature these days. As I haven't made the comparison myself, I cannot really say whether I'm actually using anything that's not available (or not available freely) in ownCloud. One significant difference is that all Nextcloud components are freely available under GNU AGPLv3. Here's a rather detailed comparison from last year.
Nextcloud cannot quite be used as a "drop-in replacement", but there's a migration tool that supports ownCloud 8.2 to 10.
What I found a bit demanding was the bare metal setup which requires a (nearly) untouched, freshly installed server Linux, in my case Ubuntu Server (while there are other installation paths I have no experience with).