135: Linux Action News
8 December 2019
Ubuntu Pro is a click away, and their kernel goes rolling on AWS. We process the range of announcements, while Mozilla cranks up the security and impresses us with DeepSpeech.
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- Canonical announces Ubuntu Pro for Amazon Web Services — New premium Ubuntu images with extended security, kernel live patching and more
- Introducing the Ubuntu AWS Rolling Kernel
- [Canonical Announces “Ubuntu Pro” For AWS](https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Canonical-Ubuntu-Pro “Canonical Announces “Ubuntu Pro” For AWS”)
- Canonical makes Ubuntu for Windows SubSystem for Linux a priority
- Amazon Announces Graviton2 SoC Along With New 64-Core Arm Instances — The new Graviton2 SoC is a custom design by Amazon’s own in-house silicon design teams and is a successor to the first-generation Graviton chip. The new chip quadruples the core count from 16 cores to 64.
- Graviton pulse - Memory Alpha
- AWS Goes All In On Arm-Based Graviton2 Processors
- Firefox 71 Released — Native MP3 decoding on Windows, Linux, and macOS
- Firefox 71 Linux Performance Isn’t Looking All That Great
- Firefox Private Network Beta
- Firefox VPN Sign Up
- Mozilla launches the next phase of its Firefox Private Network VPN beta
- Avast Online Security and Avast Secure Browser are spying on you
- Mozilla updates DeepSpeech with an English language model that runs ‘faster than real time’