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Canonical Commits to Regular Updates for Ubuntu Cloud

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http://www.thevarguy.com – One of the nice things about Ubuntu, generally speaking, is that its update and release cycles are very predictable and reliable. Ubuntu Cloud Images, however, have long been an exception. But that has now changed with the announcement of updates for the cloud-ready versions of Ubuntu that will follow a more regular pattern — or, at least, a less irregular one. As Canonical engineer Ben Howard explained, Ubuntu developers will now push out new Ubuntu Cloud Images following updates to the Linux kernel. Those latter updates don’t appear according to a rigid cycle, but generally come (IT news)

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