Dustin Kirkland discusses the results of the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS default desktop application survey results, as well as the Ubuntu Server and Ubuntu Devices roadmaps

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Let's Talk about the
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Roadmap!
UbuCon Paris
@DustinKirkland
VP, Product Development
Canonical

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Howdy, Paris!

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Today’s talk
is about YOUR feedback
Desktop Server Things

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The Desktop

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Ask HN: Ubuntu 17.10

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1146 comments!

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Your feedback matters!
New for Ubuntu 17.10:
GNOME replaced Unity
Bluetooth improvements with a new BlueZ
Switched to libinput
4K/Multimonitor/HiDPI improvements
Upgraded to Network Manager 1.8
New Subiquity server installer
Minimal images (36MB, 20% smaller)
Autoremove old kernels from /boot
EXT4 encryption with fscrypt
Better GPU/CUDA support

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Big thanks to
@luisalvaradox,
Ubuntu Community Member,
for creating the Google
Survey!

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One person actually got it right...

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The Results

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Total Responses

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Browser

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Video Player

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Email

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Text Editor

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Office Suite

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Music Player

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File Browser

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Terminal

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PDF Reader

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Photo Editor

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IRC / Messaging

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Calendar

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Photo Viewer

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IDE

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Video Editor

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Screen Recorder

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Bonus Apps

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The Server

31. Ubuntu in action!

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Minimal Ubuntu Server Image
20% smaller

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Node
Discovery
HW inventory
BMC
BIOS & firmware
Boot process
OS Deployment
Diskless / Ephemeral
Storage & Networking
Decommissioning
Network
DNS, NTP & more
Topology & addressing
L2 & L3 config
Infrastructure
PDUs
Switches & routers
Storage appliances
PXE & TFTP
lshw
freeipmi
fwupd
BIOS & UEFI
curtin
iSCSI
cloud-init
NIST-wipe
bind, ntpd
IPAM
DHCP
DCIM
OpenFlow
SNMP MIBs
Vendor stuff
maas.io
Bare Metal Provisioning

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➢ Ultra fast “vm-lite” guests (bare metal speed)
➢ Any distribution of Linux - e.g. Ubuntu, CentOS
➢ Starts in less than 1 second
➢ 15x density of KVM or ESX for idle workloads
host A
nova-lxd lxc cli
lxdkernel
other restful apps
lxc
machine
LXD REST API
host B
lxc
machine
lxdkernel
host C host D host ...
lxc
machine
lxc
machine
lxc
machine
lxdkernel lxdkernel lxdkernel
Machine Containers

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Infrastructure as a Service

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Container Orchestration

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Software Modeling

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Guided Installation

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Image Initialization

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The Things

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Ubuntu Core
Linux Devices
distributed
field-serviced
cheap
spof
expensive to fix
Linux Servers
centralised
supported
expensive
redundant
cheap to fix

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Snaps
kernel
os
appapp
writable areawritable area
Snaps are confined
and isolated
app
writable area
app
writable area

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Snapcraft

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