LTS

The fourth point release of version 16.04 of Ubuntu Linux has been released. Ubuntu 16.04 is a so-called Long-Term Support version. This one appears once every two years and is then updated for five years. Regular, non-LTS, versions of…

The Android-x86 project focuses on porting Android to the x86 platform. In addition, it does not emulate Android like BlueStacks App Player, Nox App Player and Genymotion do well. The developers have released Android-x86 7.1-r1 based on…

Canonical has announced that the next Ubuntu lts release, numbered 18.04 and codenamed Bionic Beaver, will again default to the Xorg display server instead of Wayland. The latter remains available as an option on the login…

Canonical has released patches in response to the Meltdown and Specter leaks. There will be no patch for Ubuntu 17.04, as this version will reach "end of life" status on January 13. There is an update path through version 17.10.Canonical…

Canonical will release a new version of Ubuntu 17.10 on Thursday. They don't have fixes for Specter and Meltdown, but they do for the vulnerability that corrupted the bios on certain laptops and made computers unusable.It's a special…

Microsoft has published Procdump as open source software for Linux. The developer has released the Sysinternals tool for monitoring CPU activity spikes under an MIT license on Github.The arrival of the open source version of Procdump to…

Amazon has presented a $250 camera for developers. The camera has, among other things, object recognition and other functions on board to let developers get started with artificial intelligence. Amazon's cloud service AWS will sell the…

Version 18.3 of Linux Mint has been released. Linux Mint is an Ubuntu-based distribution and version 18 is a version with extended support until 2021. Initially downloadable only with a Mate or Cinnamon desktop environment, an Xfce…

Linus Torvalds has announced the release of Linux 4.14. This kernel forms the basis of the next lts version. The new version includes heterogeneous memory management and improvements for GPU drivers.Jérôme Glisse, the developer…

Google developer Ilyan Malchev announced at the Linaro Connect conference that lts versions of the Linux kernel will now be supported for six years instead of two. This has consequences for Android devices, among other things.In his…