Ubuntu Pro
Ubuntu Pro is all you need to ensure you have access to all the best security updates. Ubuntu Pro is a subscription service provided by Canonical, providing extended security updates for over 25,000 packages not covered by the Ubuntu LTS commitment.
Don’t fret about the service being a subscription. Ubuntu Pro is free for personal use and reasonably priced for enterprise use.
Ubuntu Pro encompasses some valuable services, but we’ll focus on just a few for this chapter. For more information, see https://ubuntu.com/pro.
Figure 7.7 – Ubuntu Pro
Expanded Security Maintenance
As you probably recall from earlier in the book, we talked about main and universe repositories for software. Canonical provides free security and bug-fix updates for all packages in the main Ubuntu repository for the life of the LTS release (five years from release). However, there are over 25,000 packages in the universe repository, which are maintained by...
