News briefs for October 18, 2018.<\/p>\n
Ubuntu 18.10 “Cosmic Cuttlefish” expected to be released today. According to Phoronix<\/a>, the Arm launches the IoT-focused Mbed Linux OS and also extends Pelion IoT GitHub updated its platform this week, which included many developer-centric MongoDB Google plans to charge smartphone makers to pre-install apps like Gmail
\nbiggest change for users will be the revised default theme for the GNOME
\nShell experience, now known as “Yaru”. Ubuntu 18.10 will also have the Linux
\n4.18 kernel, “which means better hardware support, various performance
\nimprovements, and other optimizations compared to Ubuntu 18.04’s Linux 4.15”.<\/p>\n
\nPlatform services. According to Linux.com<\/a>,
\nMbed Linux “combines the Linux kernel with tools and recipes from the
\nIntel-backed Yocto Project. The distro also integrates security and IoT
\nconnectivity code from its open source Mbed RTOS”. In addition, the Pelion
\nIoT Platform “will align
\nwith Intel’s Secure Device Onboard (SDO) provisioning technology to make
\nit easier for IoT vendors and customers to onboard both x86 and Arm-based
\ndevices using a common Pelion platform. Arm also announced Pelion related
\npartnerships with myDevices and Arduino.”<\/p>\n
\nchanges and security features, but the most notable change is the
\n“expansion of the Security Alerts feature, which also now supports Java and
\n.NET projects, on top of the original JavaScript, Ruby and Python”, ZDNet
\nreports<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nrecently announced<\/a> it will be released under the new Server Side
\nPublic License<\/a>: “The SSPL clarifies the conditions for making MongoDB
\npublicly available as a service, to ensure we can continue to invest in
\nbuilding MongoDB for our users rather than in costly litigation over
\nenforcing the AGPL. All subsequent versions and patch releases to prior
\nversions of MongoDB made after October 16th, 2018 will be issued under the
\nnew SSPL.”<\/p>\n
\nand YouTube on Android handsets sold in Europe. The
\nVerge<\/a> quotes Android leader Hiroshi Lockheimer, “Since the
\npre-installation of Google Search and Chrome together with our other apps
\nhelped us fund the development and free distribution of Android, we will
\nintroduce a new paid licensing agreement for smartphones and tablets shipped
\ninto the [European Economic Area].”<\/p>\n