{"id":162808,"date":"2016-04-22T07:28:13","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T05:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=162808"},"modified":"2016-04-22T07:29:16","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T05:29:16","slug":"ubuntu-16-04-lts-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/162808-ubuntu-16-04-lts-is-here.html","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canonical released Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on 21 April, which features\u00a0the new snap package format and LXD pure-container hypervisor.<\/p>\n<p>This is the latest version of the world\u2019s most widely-used Linux platform for\u00a0desktop, IoT, and cloud computing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are proud to serve the needs of the enterprise, and research, and millions of personal and non-profit users, with one single shared free software platform,&#8221; said Mark Shuttleworth, Founder of Canonical.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 6th LTS release of Ubuntu, and marks the first time the platform is supported on mainframes.<\/p>\n<p>New features in the release include \u2018snaps\u2019 for faster and simpler updates, and the LXD container hypervisor for ultra-fast and ultra-dense cloud computing.<\/p>\n<p>The new snap application package format will also enable further convergence across IoT, mobile, and desktop.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Ubuntu<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/161152-ubuntu-is-everywhere.html\"><strong>Ubuntu is everywhere<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/159756-first-ever-ubuntu-tablet-here-soon.html\"><strong>First ever Ubuntu tablet here soon<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/158415-dell-xps-13-laptop-comes-with-ubuntu-14-04.html\">Dell XPS 13 laptop comes with Ubuntu 14.04<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canonical has released Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, which features the new snap package format and LXD pure-container hypervisor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":76560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,1799,3896,967],"class_list":["post-162808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-linux","tag-mark-shuttleworth","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162808"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162818,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162808\/revisions\/162818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}