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OMG Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu refreshes time zone data for Canadian clock changes
This time of the year, clocks spring forward and fall back across the globe, but some places are making permanent changes – and Ubuntu needs to keep pace. Over recent weeks, Canonical has refresh Ubuntu’s system time zone database package tzdata on all supported releases to ensure the system reflects the local time in parts of Canada, where: The system needs to show the right time for obvious reasons (alarms, calendar alerts, knowing when you need to go to bed), but some apps and tooling rely on the tzdata package when trying to calculate times and offsets.
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CNX Software ☛ ACEMAGIC Kron Mini K5 Review – Part 3: Ubuntu 26.04 on an entry-level Wildcat Lake mini PC
After checking out the ACEMAGIC Kron Mini K5’s hardware with an unboxing and a teardown in the first part of the review, we tested the entry-level defective chip maker Intel Core 3 304 mini PC on backdoored Windows 11, and we’ve now taken the time to test GNU/Linux on the low-cost mini PC with Ubuntu 26.04. In this article, we’ll report our experience installing Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS, checking system information, running benchmarks, evaluating storage and networking (2.5GbE and WiFi 6) performance, running a stress test to monitor thermal throttling, and measuring fan noise and power consumption of the mini PC. Installing Ubuntu 26.04.1 For this test, we installed Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS alongside backdoored Windows 11. We started by shrinking the backdoored Windows (C:) partition by about half to free up space for the GNU/Linux installation. We then plugged in the USB drive and began the installation process.
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Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu Pro is now available on AWS Deep Learning Amazon Machine Images (DLAMI)
In September 2026, Amazon Web Services (AWS) published its first DLAMIs built on Ubuntu Pro in the Base GPU family. By choosing Ubuntu Pro, enterprises launching DLAMIs gain a stronger security maintenance posture at launch thanks to Expanded Security Maintenance (ESM).
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University of Toronto ☛ My views on whether you should use Ubuntu 26.04
In comments on my entry on how the Rust coreutils are sticky on Ubuntu 26.04, Aristotle Pagaltzis asked (more or less) if I thought people should sit out Ubuntu 26.04 or use it. I was ambivalent in my comment on that entry, and recently I've realized that I have some stronger views. My answer is yes and no, depending on your circumstances.
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"It's "fun" how the passage of 20 years¹ have turned Ubuntu from a clearly better take on Debian to a somewhat inferior one that isn't yet so bad that it's worth the effort to migrate an existing environment away from. So it goes with commercially funded Linux distributions, I guess."
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ZDNet ☛ Linux Mint 27 arrives next month, and I like it already: New features and other upgrades to expect
It starts with a surprise version number: Linux Mint 27 instead of 24. But the next release brings far more changes than that.
Linux Mint, my favorite Linux desktop distribution, is ready for a fresh start.
Its lead developer, Clement “Clem” Lefebvre, announced earlier this year that the team behind it was considering slowing Mint’s release cadence because the old twice-a-year release cycle was time-consuming and constrained their ability to make major changes. So it is that the next release, Linux Mint 27, will appear in your Christmas stocking.