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Canonical and Ubuntu Stories: Zephyr 26.04 LTS, OOM, Mistakes, and GAFAM
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Canonical ☛ Canonical announces Zephyr 26.04 LTS, delivering up to 15 years of support for MCU-grade devices
The new enterprise distribution provides a trusted Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) to solve critical Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) compliance and developer experience challenges.
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It's FOSS ☛ Ubuntu Would Rather Kill Your Apps Before It Takes Down The Session
Ubuntu 26.10 is shipping a change that should keep the desktop standing when your memory runs out.
Ubuntu 26.10 is changing what your machine kills when memory runs out. Applications are meant to go first, and the services that hold the session together now sit behind them. Thirty-nine of those services move to an OOM score of -500, with GNOME Shell and two D-Bus services among them.
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OMG Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu cloud images dropped another package by accident
Another package went missing from Ubuntu 26.04 LTS’s minimal cloud images, this time xxd , a CLI tool for viewing files as hexadecimals. It’s the second time this has happened, following the accidental removal of curl I reported on in August. Both packages vanished for the same reason. When Canonical dropped the pollinate tool, which was used to generate ‘randomness’ during boot, it rejigged the dependency chain in the image ‘seed’. Packages that got pulled in by it, no longer were.
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Ubuntu ☛ Attach an Ubuntu Pro subscription to your AWS Image Builder image
Note: Attaching Ubuntu Pro to a non-Ubuntu host only licenses the cluster to run Ubuntu Pro containers. It does not give the host access to Ubuntu Pro services like Expanded Security Maintenance, compliance hardening, or Kernel live patching.