Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn) Desktop
When people think about Ubuntu, they generally think about
the desktop. The new release of Ubuntu 14.10 — while it certainly does include
a new and improved desktop — saves its biggest improvements for its cloud and
server versions.
This new release, Utopic Unicorn, features what parent
company Canonical calls “the fastest, most secure hypervisors on bare metal, as
well as the latest in container technologies with Docker v1.2 .”
The company also claims that “Ubuntu offers user-level
container control, the ability for any user to spin up containers without the
need for superuser privileges, providing higher security, privilege separation
and greater system robustness.” This is a feature that’s being explored in the
just released Docker 1.3 . The point of container support is, of course, so you
can run more application instances on the same server or cloud than you can
using vanilla virtualization solutions such as KVM.
The Unicorn also integrates many popular cloud technologies
such as Cloud Foundry; ElasticSearch; big data’s Hadoop with Hive and PigLatin;
and real-time big data analytics with Apache Storm .
These release notes for Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn)
provide an overview of the release and document the known issues with Ubuntu
14.10 and its flavors.
Support lifespan
Ubuntu 14.10 will be supported for 9 months for Ubuntu
Desktop, Ubuntu Server, Ubuntu Core, Kubuntu, Ubuntu Kylin along with all other
flavours.
Updated Packages
Linux kernel 3.16
AppArmor
Oxide
Unity
LibreOffice
Ubuntu Developer Tools Center
Xorg
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