{"id":5530,"date":"2018-04-27T07:02:48","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T05:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/159.69.82.204\/win\/?p=5530"},"modified":"2022-11-26T18:55:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T17:55:47","slug":"ubuntu-18-04-lts-bionic-beaver-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2018\/04\/27\/ubuntu-18-04-lts-bionic-beaver-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline\" src=\"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Linux.jpg\" width=\"64\" align=\"left\" height=\"76\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/26\/ubuntu-18-04-lts-bionic-beaver-erschienen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">German<\/a>]On April 26, 2018, the developers of Cannonical Ubuntu released 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) in general. As LTS version (\"Long Term Support\") Ubuntu 18.04 gets updates again for 5 years. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The most notable innovation is the fact that the developers have removed the Unity environment and Wayland. Instead, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) relies (again) on the Gnome desktop and X servers for graphics output. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Ubuntu 18.04 LTS \" alt=\"Ubuntu 18.04 LTS \" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/BRaZb30.jpg\"><br \/>Ubuntu 18.04 LTS desktop<\/p>\n<h2>Meltdown&nbsp; and Spectre protection, but telemetry<\/h2>\n<p>Ubuntu 18.04 LTS uses the Linux kernel 4.15, which already has integrated protection against Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities (see this <a href=\"https:\/\/insights.ubuntu.com\/2018\/01\/04\/ubuntu-updates-for-the-meltdown-spectre-vulnerabilities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announcement from Canonical<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The downer: From Ubuntu 18.04 Cannonical wants to collect certain selected user data. I had pointed out the facts in February 2018, see Ubuntu 18.04 becomes a telemetry data collector. I've addressed this in February 2018 within my German blog post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/16\/ubuntu-18-04-wird-zum-telemetriedatensammler\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ubuntu 18.04 wird zum Telemetriedatensammler<\/a>. Bleeping Computer have had also <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20201109033307\/https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/linux\/ubuntu-gets-in-the-user-data-collection-business\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an article<\/a> (in English) about that.<\/p>\n<h2>Download and more<\/h2>\n<p>Martin Brinkmann has published on ghacks.net <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220626000428\/https:\/\/www.ghacks.net\/2018\/04\/26\/ubuntu-18-04-lts-is-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this (English) blog post<\/a> dealing with 'what's new'. For instance, the desktop version doesn't provides a 32 bit installer anymore. The announcement of Ubuntu 18.04 with more details can be found on <a href=\"https:\/\/insights.ubuntu.com\/2018\/04\/26\/ubuntu-18-04-lts-optimised-for-security-multi-cloud-containers-ai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this Cannonical page<\/a>. Release notes may be obtained <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/BionicBeaver\/ReleaseNotes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The downloads of the various Ubuntu variants (desktop, server etc.) can be found on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubuntu.com\/download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this page<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/releases.ubuntu.com\/18.04\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[German]On April 26, 2018, the developers of Cannonical Ubuntu released 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) in general. 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