Blog posts tagged
"Ubuntu 18.04"

11 posts

Hugo Huang
26 May 2023

Time to prepare for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS end of standard support on 31 May 2023 – Options for Google Cloud users

Article Cloud and server

In accordance with the information shared in our latest blog post, it is important to note that Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, codenamed ‘Bionic Beaver,’ is approaching the end of its standard five-year maintenance period on 31 May 2023. Consequently, unless you hold an Ubuntu Pro subscription, updates for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS servers...

Hugo Huang
26 May 2023

Canonical
30 March 2023

Time to prepare for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS end of standard support on 31 May 2023 – Options for AWS users.

Article Cloud and server

As mentioned in our recent blog post, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS ‘Bionic Beaver‘ will reach the end of the standard five-year maintenance window on 31 May 2023. This means that Ubuntu 18.04 LTS servers will stop receiving updates unless you are an Ubuntu Pro subscriber. With an Ubuntu Pro subscription, your Ubuntu 18.04 LTS...

Canonical
30 March 2023

Lech Sandecki
14 March 2023

Time to prepare for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS End of Standard Support on 31 May 2023

Article Security

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS ‘Bionic Beaver‘, one of the most popular Ubuntu releases, will reach the end of the standard, five-year maintenance window for Long-Term Support (LTS) releases on 31 May 2023. Find out more What is an Ubuntu LTS release? Ubuntu LTS releases provide a stable, enterprise platform for development and...

Lech Sandecki
14 March 2023

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
20 January 2023

Ubuntu 18.04 EOL – keep your fleet of devices up and running

Article Internet of Things

Ubuntu 18.04 ‘Bionic Beaver’ is reaching End of Standard Support this May. If you don’t take action, you will transition to 18.04 EOL (End Of Life). This distribution of Ubuntu was installed by millions of users and powers up thousands of devices. From kiosks and appliances to IoT devices and robots, 18.04 helped many...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
20 January 2023

Canonical
13 May 2020

OpenStack Ussuri available on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and 20.04 LTS

Article Cloud and server

Canonical today announced the general availability of OpenStack Ussuri on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. The most notable enhancements of today’s OpenStack upstream release are stabilisation efforts around the Open Virtual Networking (OVN) driver and the Masakari project which allow organisations to run highly...

Canonical
13 May 2020

Igor Ljubuncic
4 May 2020

How to upgrade from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS to 20.04 LTS today

Article Desktop

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) was officially released on April 23. This is the latest Ubuntu Long Term Support (LTS) release, with security patches and updates available until 2025. If you are currently using an older version of Ubuntu, you may be interested in upgrading. In this tutorial, we will show how to safely upgrade

Igor Ljubuncic
4 May 2020

Francis Ginther
16 April 2020

Introducing the Ubuntu AWS Rolling Kernel

Article Cloud and server

The linux-aws 4.15 based kernel, which is the default kernel in the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS AMIs, is moving to a rolling kernel model. Why is this changing? The Ubuntu rolling kernel model provides the latest upstream bug fixes and performance improvements around task scheduling, I/O scheduling, networking, hypervisor guests...

Francis Ginther
16 April 2020

Canonical
4 December 2019

Canonical announces Ubuntu Pro for Amazon Web Services

Article Canonical announcements

New premium Ubuntu images with extended security, kernel live patching and more 4th December 2019 – Canonical today announced the availability of Ubuntu Pro images for Amazon Web Services (AWS). Available via AWS Marketplace, covering Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS and 18.04 LTS, these new premium images allow enterprises...

Canonical
4 December 2019

Canonical
7 November 2019

Canonical collaborates with NVIDIA to accelerate enterprise AI adoption in multi-cloud environments and at the edge

Article AI

Enterprises currently face the challenge of how to adopt and integrate AI and ML into their operations effectively, at scale and with minimum complexity. In tandem, today’s AI workloads have become increasingly advanced and the compute power required to support them has exponentially increased.  Canonical and NVIDIA...

Canonical
7 November 2019

Canonical
9 August 2019

Enhanced Livepatch desktop integration available with Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS

Article Desktop

Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS has just been released. For the Desktop, newer stable versions of GNOME components have been included, as well as a new feature – Livepatch desktop integration. As usual with LTS point releases, the main changes are a refreshed hardware enablement stack (newer versions of the kernel, xorg & drivers)...

Canonical
9 August 2019

Canonical
30 July 2019

Amazon EC2 On-Demand Hibernation for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS now available

Cloud Cloud and server

AWS and Canonical today announce the public release of Amazon EC2 Hibernation support for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Amazon EC2 Hibernation gives you the ability to launch Amazon EC2 instances, set them up as desired, hibernate them, and then quickly bring them back to life when you need them. Applications pick up exactly where...

Canonical
30 July 2019