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  1. Public release 0.4.3

    This long-awaited release of the Umbrella Linux is focused on migration from older Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial based systems. It still supports both Ubuntu Xenial and Ubuntu Bionic (as well as hererogenous environment, consisting of those), but includes migration scripts for upgrading the Umbrella hosts. The instructions are in the …

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  2. Public release 0.4.2

    I’m happy to announce the version 0.4.2 of the Umbrella Linux.

    At the time of the present COVID-19 pandemic, the main focus of this quick release is integration of the Apache OpenMeetings to enable remote videoconferencing.

    Summary of Changes:

    • Apache OpenMeetings 5.0.0-M3 integration.
    • Some OSSEC …
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  3. Public release 0.4.1

    I’m happy to announce the version 0.4.1 of the Umbrella Linux.

    The main focus of this release is on the LXD container mode improvements. Currently both Ubuntu 18.04 “Bionic” and Ubuntu 16.04 “Xenial” are supported, but the automatic installer is only tested on “Bionic”.

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  4. Public release 0.4.0

    I’m happy to announce the version 0.4.0 of the Umbrella Linux.

    This is the first release, featuring the Ubuntu 18.04 “Bionic” support. It also supports legacy systems, based on Ubuntu 16.04 “Xenial”.

    Summary of Changes:

    • Ubuntu 18.04 “Bionic” support.
    • More documentation and installation examples …
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  5. Public release 0.3.2

    I’m happy to announce the version 0.3.2 of the Umbrella Linux.

    This is an intermediate release before the Bionic port.

    Updating the running system will require: 1) stopping the bcfg2 server (/etc/init.d/bcfg2-server stop); 2) resetting bcfg2-reports database (DROP/CREATE); 3) clearing Packages cache in …

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  6. Public release 0.3

    I’m happy to announce the version 0.3 of the Umbrella Linux.

    This is, probably, the last Ubuntu Xenial based release. The work is underway on extending the support to Ubuntu Bionic.

    Summary of Changes:

    • made the installer work with updated LXD (after bionic release) from xenial-backports.
    • installer now …
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  7. Public release 0.2

    I’m happy to announce the version 0.2 of the Umbrella Linux.

    Summary of Changes:

    • new “archiveworkstation” class, which works as workstation during the day, but maintains a set of system’s backups during the night.
    • secure all mysql server connections via SSL by default
    • network topology can now …
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  8. Initial public release 0.1

    I’m happy to announce the initial public release of the Umbrella Linux.

    State of the project:

    The project is, actually, two years old (if we count only the time, when the its bcfg2 repository started to be parametrized). It was created from scratch in 2013 by me K.L …

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  9. What's our mission ?

    The goal is to counteract the Internet service centralization by providing a local fully-featured user workspace and internet service platform with as much externally accessible open standards based services as possible. For most individual home users the usual Linux Distribution (such as Debian, Ubuntu or Linux Mint) already helps to …

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