By VSM News Staff
published: Monday, April 28 2008
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server Edition Combines Advanced Functionality With Five Years of Maintenance and Support
LONDON, April 21, 2008 - Canonical Ltd. announced
the upcoming availability of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server Edition for free
download on Thursday 24 April. In related news, Canonical also
announced the simultaneous release of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Desktop Edition.
Ubuntu 8.04 Long Term Support (LTS) Server Edition adds new
features to enhance the performance, stability and security of this
fully supported general platform. The LTS release sees further
expansion of the commercial ecosystem of software, hardware and
services vendors supporting Ubuntu Server.
The extended maintenance period meets demand from business users to
deploy Ubuntu widely over a period of years. It also positions Ubuntu
Server as a platform on which hardware and software vendors can build
commercial solutions. A wide range of vendors have declared support for
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, and more are currently testing and certifying the
release.
"Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server Edition is built for business," said Jane
Silber, COO of Canonical Ltd. "This release brings together significant
feature and stability improvements to a free and open platform. Ubuntu
8.04 LTS is at the centre of a growing ecosystem of applications that
serve businesses of all sizes extremely well. We look forward to seeing
its adoption grow across the five years we will support it."
As part of its news today, Canonical also announced that Ubuntu
8.04 LTS Server Edition is certified on several high performance,
energy efficient Sun x64 server platforms, including the Sun Fire X2100
M2, X2200 M2 and Sun Fire X4150 servers. Lisa Sieker, vice president of
Systems Marketing, Sun Microsystems says, "Sun is committed to
providing customers a choice of operating systems on our x64 servers.
Sun has worked closely with Canonical since early 2006 and we continue
to see growing interest in Ubuntu on Sun platforms."
About Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server Edition
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server Edition is the fourth server release from
Canonical. It comes with five years of security updates and
maintenance. Among the new and updated features available with the LTS
release are:
Solid Foundation
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Expanded range of network infrastructure applications including
authentication (FreeRadius), monitoring (Munin), VPN (OpenVPN) and
backup (Bacula).
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Enhanced security with integrated AppArmor policies and increased kernel hardening.
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Increased range of storage capabilities including iSCSI and DRBD.
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Over 500 maintained and supported server packages, together with
access to more than 20,000 additional components built for 8.04 LTS.
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Integrated host firewalling to protect Internet facing servers.
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Fully upgradable from the previous 6.06 LTS release.
Extensive Ecosystem
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Active Directory integration as standard, provided by LikeWise Open.
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Ubuntu is the first distribution to include Open JDK from Sun as an option.
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Certified applications for Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server Edition from
Alfresco, Bacula, IBM, VMWare, Parallels, Qumranet, Tresys, Zarafa,
Zend, Zimbra and more.
Virtual Platform of Choice
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Addition of KVM for hosting virtualisation of applications and operating systems.
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Significant kernel improvements to optimise resources use when under virtualisation.
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Ubuntu JeOS enhanced to optimise virtual appliances and ready to run in VMWare or KVM environments on any system.
Support
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The Ubuntu management service, Landscape, provides enhancement security, maintenance and application management.
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Applications and the core system are supported by Canonical's Global Support Services (GSS) team.
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Support for Ubuntu can be purchased directly at https://shop.canonical.com or by contacting Canonical sales for further information.
Pricing, Availability and Technical Information
About Canonical Ltd
Canonical Ltd, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, is a global
organisation headquartered in Europe, committed to the development,
distribution and support of open source software products and
communities. World-class 24x7 commercial support for Ubuntu is
available through Canonical's global support team and partners. Since
its launch in October 2004 Ubuntu has become one of the most highly
regarded Linux distributions with millions of users around the world.
Ubuntu will always be free to download, free to use and free to
distribute to others. With these goals in mind, Ubuntu aims to be the
most widely used Linux system, and is the centre of a global open
source software ecosystem. For more information visit www.canonical.com or www.ubuntu.com.
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