A while ago Canonical announced the release of the sixth versionς LTS (Long Term Support) του Ubuntu στις 21 Απριλίου και παρουσίασε επίσημα τα νέα χαρακτηριστικά του επερχόμενου λειτουργικού συστήματος.
The new Ubuntu LTS 16.04 it is called Xenial Xerus and according to Canonical, it offers users support for snap packages in releases desktop with and server, new secure and powerful app format, LXD 2.0 pure-container hypervisor with OpenStack Mitaka, as well as support for IBM's LinuxONE and System Z platform.
In addition, the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS operating system will be the first of its kind to support CephFS and ZFS filesystems for large-scale cloud storage.
Canonical says it has made great progress with the vision of convergence, bringing the Ubuntu platform closer to the Linux OS that will work on desktop, phones, servers and IoT.
“Οι κορυφαίες επιχειρήσεις που βασίζονται στο Cloud και τα προηγμένα robot τρέχουν με Ubuntu. Αυτή η new edition είναι η βάση για το επόμενο κύμα της καινοτομίας τους,” δήλωσε ο Mark Shuttleworth, ιδρυτής της Canonical.
"We are proud to serve the needs of businesses and research, as well as millions of users, with a unified common free software platform."
So tomorrow 21 April of 2016, Canonical will officially release Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial Xerus. Those who want to read all the new features will find the link to the announcement at the end of the publication.
Ubuntu 16.04 as mentioned above is an LTS (Long Term Support) release, which means that Canonical will support the operating system with security patches and updates for the next five years.
