Ubuntu Advantage for Infrastructure: an Interview with Canonical

Your Weekly Newsletter [view in browser »]( Want to stay more up to date on all things open source? Follow us on [Twitter](. [Canonical Logo]( Ubuntu Advantage for Infrastructure: an Interview with Canonical Petros Koutoupis- May 9, 2019 On April 29, 2019, Canonical made headlines by officially announcing the availability of [Ubuntu Advantage for Infrastructure]( If you are unfamiliar with Canonical and the work that they do: Canonical is the publisher of Ubuntu, the OS for most public cloud workloads as well as the emerging categories of smart gateways, self-driving cars and advanced robots. Canonical provides enterprise security, support and services to commercial users of Ubuntu. Ubuntu Advantage for Infrastructure changes the entire landscape of service offerings for open-source software. Instead of itemizing and charging for each and every component or add-on, Canonical promises its customers a per-node service package, regardless of the technologies running on it. I was able to sit down and chat with Stephan Fabel, who was generous enough to provide a bit more detail around this exciting announcement. Petros Koutoupis: Tell us about yourself. Stephan Fabel: My name is Stephan Fabel, and I am Director of Product over at Canonical. So, I am running a team as the Product Manager, and I am responsible for the portfolio of products that go out to our customers. Petros: For our readers who are unfamiliar, what is Ubuntu Advantage? Stephan: As you might know, Ubuntu always has been freely available as an open-source Linux distribution for everybody to consume. And, for those users who wish to enter that commercial relationship with Canonical, either because they are interested in our additional bit-streams that we offer like kernel patches, extended security maintenance, FIPS compliance crypto libraries, or because they would like to get support for each of those open infrastructure components that we are covering, Ubuntu Advantage is the program that they would subscribe to. [read article]( [ASCII]( Linux Journal ASCII Art Contest Bryan Lunduke - May 13, 2019 Do you have l33t ASCII/ANSI art skillz? Your work could grace the cover of Linux Journal! [read article]( [signing]( Signing Git Commits Kyle Rankin - May 16, 2019 Protect your code commits from malicious changes by GPG-signing them. [Read Article]( [Laptop]( What The @#$%&! (Heck) is this #! (Hash-Bang) Thingy In My Bash Script Mitch Frazier - May 10, 2019 You've seen it a million times—the hash-bang (#!) line at the top of a script—whether it be Bash, Python, Perl or some other scripting language. And, I'm sure you know what its purpose is: it specifies the script interpreter that's used to execute the script. [read article]( Subscribe to Linux Journal for only $2.88 an issue! [Subscribe Now »]( [Renew Now »]( in case you missed [Screen] Rewriting printk() Zack Brown - May 7, 2019 The printk() function is a subject of much ongoing consternation among kernel developers. [Read Article »]( [DNA] Open Source--It's in the Genes Glyn Moody - May 6, 2019 What happens when you release 500,000 human genomes as open source? This. [Read article »]( upcoming events [Percona Live]( May 28, 2019 - May 30, 2019 Austin, TX USA [Texas Linux Fest]( May 31, 2019 - June 1, 2019 Irving, TX USA [Women In Technology Summit]( June 09, 2019 - June 11, 2019 San Jose, CA USA [Private Internet Access]( [Storix]( You are receiving this email because you signed up to receive newsletters from Linux Journal. You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe]( from this list. Copyright © 2019 Linux Journal LLC, All rights reserved. Mailing address: 9597 Jones Rd, #331 Houston, TX 77065