OpenStack Summit in Berlin, its founder Canonical, Mark Shuttleworth, announced that the Ubuntu 18.04 Long Term Support (LTS) lifetime will be extended from five years to ten years.
"Είμαι ευτυχής να ανακοινώσω ότι το Ubuntu 18.04 θα υποστηριχτεί για 10 χρόνια", δήλωσε ο Shuttleworth.
Ubuntu 18.04 was released in April of 2018. Although everyone knows Ubuntu as a desktop, Canonical's earnings come from server and cloud clients. Canonical offered extensive security support to Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 14.04, and now Ubuntu 18.04. In an interview after the conference, Shuttleworth said Ubuntu 16.04 will be backed up by April 2021.
Όσον αφορά το OpenStack, ο Shuttleworth υποσχέθηκε να υποστηρίξει τις εκδόσεις του OpenStack που χρονολογούνται από το IceHouse του 2014. Ο Shuttleworth ανέφερε: "Αυτό που έχει σημασία δεν είναι η δεύτερη μέρα, αλλά η 1.500η μέρα".
He also promised that Canonical would allow OpenStack customers to change from one version of OpenStack to another.
Shuttleworth also mentioned that for the past two years, Canonical had been taking Red Hat customers with Ubuntu. He explained that the companies coming to Canonical are not coming to replace existing Red Hat installations Enterprise Linux (RHEL) ή του OpenShift, αλλά να επεκταθούν σε νέους τομείς τεχνολογίας, όπως το Διαδίκτυο των πραγμάτων (IoT), τη μηχανική μάθηση και την τεχνητή νοημοσύνη (ML/AI).
However, Shuttleworth predicts that the redemption of Red Hat by IBM will lead its customers to switch to Ubuntu.
We are public cloud neutral, we work with AWS, Azure and Google, we provide common services in different environment, but we are not the lowest common denominator. We want to be it best functional system for Azure, AWS, etc.
He sees Red Hat as the only company that can compete with Canonical in the Linux and cloud business, and overlooks SUSE.
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