Canonical, the lead company behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution, has announced an expansion of their effort to run Ubuntu on as many platforms as possible. The company announced that Ubuntu Snappy will be coming to the Open Compute Platform (OCP) network switches.Ubuntu will bring an assortment of benefits to the OCP, including the fastest, smallest, and most reliable Ubuntu distribution ever, transactional updates for each app and kernel separately with rollback functionality, a new, simpler packaging system, and an assortment of NOS and NFV applications. Penguin Computing will be the first company to offer switches running Snappy, and their initial offerings will include top of rack 10GE and aggregation 40GE models.
