INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The release of Ubuntu 'Bionic Beaver' 18.04 is important
firmly nestled in the desktop environment slot, but it could be the release that sees Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, through IPO
We spoke to Will Cooke, Canonical's desktop director and David Bitton, engineering manager of Ubuntu Server, about the overall goals for
Apache instance and a MySQL instance, and you want to have your developer tools on there
You can do all of that development on your machine, and then deploy it to the cloud, running the same version of Ubuntu, and be safe in the
knowledge that the packages that are installed on your desktop are exactly the same as the ones that are in your enterprise installation.And
single year and upgrading it, and dealing with all the fallout that happens there.So the overarching theme for Ubuntu in 18.04 is this
Ubuntu, which shifts with just the bare minimum that you need to bring a device up and get it on the network.And so, the packages that you
these other devices, and it will continue to work in the same way that it works on your Desktop as it does on all of these other devices.And
These are self-contained binaries that work not only on Ubuntu, but also on Fedora or CentOS or Arch.So as an application developer, for
example, [] you can bundle up all of those dependencies into a self-continued package, and then push that out to your various devices
package it up; and push it out to whatever device that is running Linux, and you can be reliant on it and continuing to work for the next
five years.Ubuntu 18.04 has a strong focus on snaps
This is a new package format, which enables app developers to bundle their software, with all dependencies included, into a secure,
sandboxed container that runs on Ubuntu Linux (and other support Linux distributions, such as Solus)
This has prompted many high-profile but proprietary software products, including Slack and Skype, to appear in the Snap Store in time for
So snaps simplify a lot of that.Again, part of the fact, really, is this ability to bundle all the dependencies with it
resolution might take care of that for you
It probably would do.But as soon as your underlying OS changes that library, for example, then your package breaks
on.So by bundling all of that into a snap, then you are absolutely certain that all of your dependencies are shipped along with your
So when it gets to the other end, it will open and run correctly.The other key feature, in my mind, of snaps, is the security confinement
X.Org, for example, is a bit long in the tooth now
It was never really designed with secure computing in mind
your home directory, go into your SSH keys directory, make a copy of those, and email them off somewhere
to.So that, in my mind, are the two key stories
The write once run anywhere side of things, and then the confinement security aspect as well.heBhRtg2aE6BK6S9qiGcye.jpg#
