Canonical announced about readiness for the widespread use of the service ubuntu pro , providing access to expanded updates for the Ubuntu LTS VETTU. The service provides an opportunity to receive updates with vulnerable corrections for 10 years (the full-time period of support of the LTS vest 5 years) for an additional 23 thousand packages, in addition to packages from the Main repository. Ubuntu Pro also opens access to live-patch , allowing the summer to apply updates to the Linux core without rebooting.
Free subscription to Ubuntu Pro is provided for individuals and small enterprises, numbering up to 5 physical hosts in their infrastructure (the program also covers all virtual machines located on these hosts). Official members of the Ubuntu community can get free access for 50 hosts. The cost of paid subscription is $ 25 per year for each working station and $ 500 per year per server.
To obtain access to the Ubuntu Profree service, account is required in ubuntu one that anyone can get.