Ubuntu, Rocky Linux, GNU @ 40, and More (UPDATED)
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Ubuntu Summit 2023
After the success of last year’s Ubuntu Summit in Prague, the organizers at Canonical set a goal to make this year’s Summit bigger, better and bolder. With this goal in mind, we are all extremely excited to announce that this year’s Ubuntu Summit will be hosted in the beautiful city of Riga, Latvia!
The Ubuntu Summit is more than just a conference; it’s an annual celebration of the most compelling and groundbreaking innovations from the open source ecosystem. Produced and hosted by Canonical, the publishers of Ubuntu, the Summit offers a unique opportunity to experience first-hand the cutting-edge innovations and pioneering technologies that are transforming our world.
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Time to prepare for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS end of standard support on 31 May 2023 – Options for Google Cloud users
In accordance with the information shared in our latest blog post, it is important to note that Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, codenamed ‘Bionic Beaver,’ is approaching the end of its standard five-year maintenance period on 31 May 2023. Consequently, unless you hold an Ubuntu Pro subscription, updates for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS servers will cease to be available.
By subscribing to Ubuntu Pro, you can ensure that your Ubuntu 18.04 LTS deployment remains fully supported until 2028. This extended support period provides you with continued assistance and maintenance for your workloads running on Google Compute Engine (GCE).
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Subpoenaed PyPI says bye-bye to as much IP address data as it can
But now that the code repository has disclosed receiving three subpoenas for data on five users earlier this year, the Python community package registry wants developers to understand that it's working to minimize the user data that it stores.
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CIQ Extends Enterprise-Grade Support for Rocky Linux 9.2 and 8.8
CIQ, the company supporting enterprises with the next generation of software infrastructure built atop the Rocky Linux enterprise Linux distribution, announced today that it has certified its suite of software products on recently released Rocky Linux 9.2 and Rocky Linux 8.8. Certified CIQ products include Warewulf and Apptainer as well as the newly launched Fuzzball and images available in the Mountain repo as a service offering. CIQ also announced enterprise grade professional support on both of the new versions of Rocky Linux.
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Additionally, CIQ is announcing long term support (LTS) for Rocky 9.2 which will include support for the Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS). The addition of LTS brings support to CIQ customers for Rocky Linux 9.2 for an additional 18 months, providing support beyond the community edition for customers who need assurance that a trusted partner will be there to support them for a guaranteed time frame.
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Why you might want an email client in the era of webmail
A rather nice feature for Linux and BSD users is that now you can use the middle-click function, which pastes whatever text is currently selected, to create a new tab. Google Chrome has done this for years, so it's welcome to see it come to Firefox. It works for URLs and for plain text — if what you're pasting doesn't look like a web address, then Firefox will search for it.
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GNU 40th Anniversary
Join us to celebrate the GNU Project's freedom-spreading accomplishments with presentations in English about various GNU packages, hacking on free software and making new releases! The 40th anniversary hacker meeting is open to all who want to celebrate, work on, or learn about free software. We are putting together an appropriate schedule, if you have something to contribute, please contact
UPDATE
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Ubuntu Summit 2023 Date & Location Revealed
Join me in hearing an imaginary drum roll as I reveal the date and location of the next Ubuntu Summit. This year, Riga in Latvia will host Ubuntu's in-person soirée, from November 3rd to November 5th at the The Radisson Blu Latvija Hotel. Interestingly, the Ubuntu Summit 2023 is not the only is FOSS-focused event Latvia's capital accommodates this year as GNOME's annual GUADEC event rolls into town during July. Not sure if this is a coincidence or planned.