Ubuntu Fridge
fridge.ubuntu.com · Company blog · on HN since 2008
Ubuntu Fridge is the Ubuntu community news site, carrying release announcements, end-of-life notices, and Community Council statements.
What HN saysHN links it as a primary source for Ubuntu release and EOL dates, licensing statements, and project announcements.
24HN people shared it
8linked it in comments
16stories submitted
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Most-shared posts
- 1Mir – Ubuntu's new display server2 people · 56 points · first shared 2013 · 28 comments on HN
- 2XMir and Mir to ship by default in Ubuntu 13.102 people · 9 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 3Community Council Statement on Canonical Package Licensing2 people · 2 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 4Announcing Ubuntu 10.04 LTS: The Lucid Lynx1 people · 74 points · first shared 2009 · 32 comments on HN
- 5Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) released1 people · 14 points · first shared 2015 · 3 comments on HN
- 6Ubuntu Brainstorm Launched1 people · 9 points · first shared 2008 · 2 comments on HN
- 7Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) Beta 1 Released1 people · 5 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 8Ubuntu Developer Summits Now Online and Every Three Months1 people · 4 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 9First Ever Ubuntu Developer Week1 people · 2 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
- 10Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS released1 people · 2 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 11Taking the lead from Valve, EA Games on Ubuntu.1 people · 2 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 12Ok, now bionic beaver has been released1 people · 2 points · first shared 2018 · 1 comments on HN
- 13Code of Conduct review during Community Roundtable on Wednesday morning1 people · 1 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 14Community on ubuntu.com1 people · 1 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 15Code of Conduct v2: Request for Feedback1 people · 1 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
yencabulator · 2025-04-24
> The Papers PDF reader replaces Evince with a modern design and better performance.
That link seems to go to some proprietary application. The correct link is https://apps.gnome.org/Papers/
This seems like pretty miserable quality blogspam.
Better link: https://fridge.ubuntu.com/2025/04/17/ubuntu-25-04-plucky-puffin-releas…
gnastygnorc · 2021-05-26
riffic · 2018-02-07
Careful, 17.04 went EOL last month:
http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2018/01/17/ubuntu-17-04-zesty-zapus-reached-e…
abrowne · 2016-02-20
They have a license from Canonical: http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2014/02/13/community-council-statement-on-can…
balou · 2014-04-15
13.04 is vulnerable, just out of the support period of ubuntu (decreased from 18 months down to 6 months in 2013) - basically out of luck, either use a ppa, or upgrade to 13.10
http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2013/03/19/changes-in-ubuntu-releases-decided…
nikcub · 2014-04-15
Most reports about Heartbleed kept repeating that the vulnerability was introduced 2 years ago (Dec '12, which isn't even 2 years - but anyway) it was committed to a version of OpenSSL (v1.0.1) that wasn't widely distributed until the middle of last year.
The time surface of the Heartbleed attack is a lot smaller than what most think. Debian and the BSD projects moved to v1.0.1 earliest, around March/April last year.
Ubuntu only upgraded two months ago (in 12.04.4) on the 6th of Feb:
http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2014/02/06/ubuntu-12-04-4-lts-released/
Redhat with 6.5 in November 2013:
https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_…
CentOS Feb 26th 2014:
http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS6.5
keithpeter · 2013-07-27
Yes, Unity is fine if you use it for a few weeks on the desktop/laptop. I really enjoyed Ubuntu 12.04 with huge repositories of applications and an interface that used the 'extra' width of a cheap 1080p monitor.
I have not yet had the opportunity to explore other form factors, although fat fingering most GTK3+ apps would not be fun I imagine.
I am currently 'on the bench' regarding Unity after 12.04 until bug 739184 [1] is addressed. This makes keyboard oriented use of LibreOffice impossible, ironic given the keyboard orientation of Unity.
I hope 14.04 addresses this issue and also supports nvidia proprietary drivers (or runs nouveau at a reasonable speed) [2].
[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/739184
[2] http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2013/06/27/mir-plans-in-13-10/
brigade · 2013-03-04
> Ability to leverage existing drivers implementing the Android driver model [1]
This is huge for ARM; very few vendors bother developing any sort of an OpenGL driver for X11, and drivers for same GPU often not only SoC specific, but sometimes device specific as well.
[1] http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2013/03/04/mir-an-outpost-envisioned-as-a-new…