Ubuntu 16.04 LTS unveiled today – featuring the new ‘snap’ package format
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Main highlights: Enable faster and simpler software delivery and operations Adds new “snap” application package format, enabling further convergence across IOT, mobile and desktop The introduction of LXD pure-container hypervisor with OpenStack Mitaka. Support for IBM Z and LinuxONE systems with flat pricing. Steps made towards converged Ubuntu across IoT, phone, desktop and server. The introduction of ZFS and CephFS for large-scale cloud storage. “The leading cloud-based operations and the most advanced robotics run largely on Ubuntu, and this new release is the basis for the next wave of their innovation” said Mark Shuttleworth, Founder of Canonical.