Canonical Announces Everything LTS Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has announced Everything LTS , a new service aimed at providing distroless Docker container images with twelve years of security updates and compatibility across a wide range of hosts, including Ubuntu itself, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), VMware, and public Kubernetes-based clouds. Canonical states that Everything LTS "extends Ubuntu Pro with thousands of new open-source components, including the latest AI/ML dependencies and tools for machine learning, training, and inference, maintained as a source alongside Ubuntu rather than as Deb packages. Customers hire Canonical to design a Docker image of an open-source application, or a base image that includes all the open-source dependencies needed to host their proprietary application." In addition to container images based on Ubuntu, Canonical will also offer distroless Docker images. While the former needs no explanation as it is the default paradigm,...