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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Available To Download; Mozilla To Offer 0-Day Firefox Releases Via Snaps 74

Reader prisoninmate writes: The latest, and hopefully, the greatest version of Ubuntu is now available to download. On the sidelines, Mozilla today announced the availability of future releases of its popular Firefox web browser in the snap package format for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Earlier today, Canonical unleashed the final release of the highly anticipated Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating system, bringing users a great set of new features and improvements. Also today, it looks like Canonical has renewed its partnership with Mozilla to offer Firefox as the default web browser on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and upcoming releases of the Linux kernel-based operating systems. As part of the new partnership, Mozilla is committed to distributing future versions of Firefox as a snap package. Having Firefox distributed in the snap format means that you'll have 0-day releases in Ubuntu 16.04. Yes, just like Windows and Mac OS X, users are enjoying their 0-day releases of Mozilla Firefox and don't have to wait for package maintainers of a particular GNU/Linux distribution to update the software in the main repositories. For Mozilla, having Firefox as a snap package means that they'll be able to continually optimize it for Ubuntu.
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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Available To Download; Mozilla To Offer 0-Day Firefox Releases Via Snaps

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  • Yes, just like Windows and Mac OS X, users are enjoying their 0-day releases of Mozilla Firefox and don't have to wait for package maintainers of a particular GNU/Linux distribution to update the software in the main repositories.

    Really? I mean, are you guys so fucking retarded that you're not able to setup your own .deb repositories? Fuck, you can even use Launchpad's PPAs!

    • by Aaden42 ( 198257 )

      I need somebody to give me a sanity check on this snappy thing. Sounds like you're packaging your app and all it's dependencies in one archive, and installing that in a sandbox/chroot or just funky LD_CONFIG so that the binaries in the snap access their own private libraries. Is that about right?

      So now with system-installed libraries like OpenSSL, if there's a vulnerability in OpenSSL, you patch OpenSSL, maybe kill/restart everything linked to it on the system, and life goes on.

      If I'm groking snaps proper

  • No. Just no. (Score:5, Insightful)

    by TangoMargarine ( 1617195 ) on Thursday April 21, 2016 @03:28PM (#51958943) Journal

    The constant usage of "zero-day" is annoying enough already without taking it and applying it to something completely different.

    Unless literally Mozilla is going to release builds of Firefox to exploit unpatched vulnerabilities in Ubuntu...

    • by Anonymous Coward

      I know I need to install Firefox updates often and quickly, because they typically include security fixes.

      But aside from those security fixes, I really, really don't want to upgrade Firefox.

      Starting with Firefox 4, I think that every Firefox upgrade has left me worse off.

      Firefox's UI is now way harder to use, especially after Australis was released. Firefox 3.6 was easy to us because it had sensible menus, a sensible toolbar, a status bar, and other useful UI functionality. But that has been gradually strip

      • Try out Pale Moon :) They've even got a Linux version.

  • Already so (Score:5, Insightful)

    by F.Ultra ( 1673484 ) on Thursday April 21, 2016 @03:35PM (#51959031)
    The problem with this announcement is that Firefox where already available in the Ubuntu repositories practically at the same day that they released binaries for Windows and OS X. A long long time ago Firefox where frozen just like the rest of the software but since then you got the newest version even if you used 12.04LTS so this only means that Mozilla will now do what Ubuntu have been doing but with a snap instead of a .deb
  • by BrookHarty ( 9119 ) on Thursday April 21, 2016 @03:54PM (#51959247) Journal

    Downloaded the mate spin, and so far, looks really nice. No virtualbox guest issues, the virtualbox boot resolution error is gone. Installed zfs and partitioned and made some zpools, flawless.

    All I had to do apt-get install zfsutils-linux zfs-initramfs and modprobe zfs, and it was good to go.

    I tried loading zfs in the live cd, and checked if gpart showed zfs, but it didnt. That would have been the icing on the cake, create a zfs for a boot/root/swap and go.

    I didn't have the restricted repo installed, so i just apturl apt://ubuntu-restricted-extras and had all the 3rd party installed.

    Mate seems to be locked at 1.12.1 when 14 is out, prob not a big issue.

    GTK is 3.18, so no 3.20 issues to worry about. Noticed clearlooks is now named tradtionalok, assume thats to fix the gtk2/gtk3 meta theme, no need for clearlooks-phenix anymore. Firefox Beta/Dev doesnt support GTK 3.20 yet, so nice to see. (And breeze theme is broken in 3.20 if your a KDE user, so wanting themes to match across gtk2/gtk3/qt, nice to see no issues there. Bring on unix themes!

    Software Boutique would not work with my proxy. The rest of the system appeared to use the proxy just fine.

    Looks like a good Mate spin to me! And LTS, my co-workers will be happy.

    • I tried loading zfs in the live cd, and checked if gpart showed zfs, but it didnt.

      Errr ZFS doesn't run on a partition level, it's a bit different from the traditional filesystem so I don't think there are any plans to ever add zfs to tools like gparted.

      That said there's been no problem running ZFS as your root filesystem in the past and I imagine there won't be a problem now either unless they royally screwed something up.

  • by Anonymous Coward

    Modern app appers ONLY app apps, NOT LUDDITE SNAPS!

    Apps!

  • One major disappointment is that the change Gnome did to xterm which fucked up tabs have now also been implemented in Gedit... First of all they spread the tabs over the entire width which makes it hard to actually see how many tabs you have opened but worse is that there is no real indicator for which tab is the active one. It might look prettier (not convinced there either) but productivity went out the window.
  • Found this this tutorial [linuxtoday.com] recently, where you may find the installation of a Ubuntu 16.04 minimal server step by step. The purpose of the guide is to show the basic installation of Ubuntu 16.04 that can be used as basis for our other Ubuntu tutorials here at howtoforge like our perfect server guides. However, server control panel is a question, but not in this case (I use ServerSuit [serversuit.com]).

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