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I know the data for one large cloud. There’s more Ubuntu than all the others put together, by some distance. Don’t see why it would be different on the other public clouds. They do…

In the end it was a tie in the Debian technical committee. The chairman’s vote was counted twice so systemd won. Then the people who had voted for systemd resigned rather than actu…

Yup

Evidence? I don’t think that’s the case. There are plenty of non-commercial snaps with system access, it’s really a question of the nature of the snap. You would want something lik…

The comment is mistaken. I suspect it’s being downvoted not because update control isn’t appreciated, but because it’s very much there with snaps. There are several ways to disable…

Ubuntu used to add a kernel to the LTS from each subsequent release, but they were separate packages. Now there will be just one HWE package that will roll until the subsequent LTS…

No, just doing updates gets you all the benefits of the point release, as you would expect. If you want a newer kernel, install the hwe kernel when it appears, it will roll until t…

Sensible move, though I hope it's not too disruptive for Fleet users. Don't think they have any option though. The list of easy ways to try K8s should include conjure-up on Ubuntu …

Snaps can now export libraries, so you can get a shared Qt framework for example if you don't want to bundle that. Up to you how much you trust the library snap publisher not to br…

Snaps can be 'strictly confined' which means all their reading and writing happens in a limited set of directories exclusively for their use. So 'snap remove' cleans everything up …

Exactly. Snaps grew out of the work to make Ubuntu mobile phone apps secure and easy to update. They are a great way to publish software, worth creating regardless of all the anti-…