
The Trust Store integration has also arrived for PulseAudio and the Camera app, which means that an authorization will be required for apps to have access to the phone's camera and audio recording functionality. On private clouds, Minimal Ubuntu is available for download, optimised for use with KVM and LXD, on Bionic and Xenial.As we reported the other day, the Ubuntu Touch developers were hard at work to release the OTA-6 software update for Ubuntu for phones today, Wednesday, August 26, 2015, for Meizu MX4 Ubuntu Edition, Nexus 4, and Nexus 7 devices.Īnd it's finally here! Ubuntu Touch OTA-6 has been officially released, and the announcement has been prepared with all the goodies that it brings, such as Wi-Fi Hotspot support, an all-new boot splash screen, and custom alarm sounds.

Combined with full snap support, anything you can do with the regular Ubuntu images, you can do with the minimal images.Įnterprise support is available in the form of Canonical's Ubuntu Advantage on the same terms as regular Ubuntu cloud images. Since they retain full support for installing from the Ubuntu archive, Minimal Ubuntu has access to the same breadth of software, and the same excellent security maintenance, as the regular server images. The 'unminimize' command will install the standard Ubuntu Server packages if you want to convert a Minimal instance to a standard Server environment for interactive use. Minimal instances are not intended to be comfortable to use at the command line, but you can apt-get and snap install anything as usual, so on the occasions when humans do need to use them for debugging purposes, they can be made comfortable. They are much smaller, boot faster, and will require fewer security updates over time since they have fewer packages installed.

These images have a greatly reduced default package set, without many convenience tools for interactive usage.

They use the optimised kernels and optimised boot process on their target compute substrate.

Minimal Ubuntu is a set of Ubuntu images designed for automated deployment at scale and made available across a range of cloud substrates.
