Ubuntu Linux Becomes the Preferred Operating System for Pivotal's Cloud Platform | Linux Today

Ubuntu Linux Becomes the Preferred Operating System for Pivotal’s Cloud Platform

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Marius Nestor
Jul 7, 2016

Pivotal Cloud Foundry is Pivotal’s cloud native platform, which now uses the latest Ubuntu Linux operating system and Canonical’s Ubuntu Advantage (UA) support services, is designed to offer customers the latest software innovations, as well as a rapid response approach to Linux vulnerabilities. Thanks to the new partnership between Canonical and Pivotal, it is now possible for some of the world’s most popular brands to access secure and certified Ubuntu Linux images within the Pivotal Cloud Foundry platform. According to Canonical, Ubuntu is currently the most widely used Linux distribution on the planet.

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Marius Nestor

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