If you took advantage of Canonical’s free Ubuntu Pro subscriptions (as reported in Jan. 27th’s headlines), you may be pleased to know that it’s now available on the Amazon Web Service public cloud (courtesy of TechRepublic).
Canonical Releases Ubuntu 23.04, the “Lunar Lobster”
Canonical launched the latest versions of its Ubuntu OS on April 20th. SMB-focused updates in 23.04, dubbed “Lunar Lobster,” include improved integration with Active Directory and an updated installer. A ZDNET review also found it a worthy upgrade on the desktop, for both “work and play.”
Snap and Flatpak Package Formats Benefit Users and Businesses Alike
ZDNet’s opinion piece on new package managers like Snap and Flatpak reasons that their existence is a good thing for new Linux users. But more importantly for business, they represent a reliable way to develop and package applications once and still cover all the main distributions. In the editor’s opinion, some great (if proprietary) applications such as Zoom are only available on Linux because of these formats.
Top (Stable) Linux Distributions for Business
In an interesting take, MakeUseOf breaks Linux distributions down based on where they fall on the scale of stable to bleeding edge. No surprise in that the piece identifies Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Debian, and Ubuntu’s LTS versions as “enterprise-grade.”
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