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Canonical produces Ubuntu, provides commercial services for Ubuntu's users, and works with hardware manufacturers, software vendors and cloud partners to certify Ubuntu.


Canonical
5 July 2016

e-shelter and Canonical launch Joint Managed OpenStack Private Cloud

News Cloud and server

Quick, easy and cost-predictable way to get a fully functional OpenStack cloud Built on Ubuntu OpenStack and using application management tools Juju and MaaS Fully managed cloud service takes away the hassle of day to day IT operations Frankfurt, Germany and London, U.K. 5th July, 2016 – e-shelter, leading data center...

Canonical
5 July 2016


Canonical
29 June 2016

Snapcraft 2.12: an ecosystem of parts, qmake and gulp

Article Cloud and server

Snapcraft 2.12 is here and is making its way to your 16.04 machines today.This release takes Snapcraft to a whole new level. For example, instead of defining your own project parts, you can now use and share them from a common, open, repository. This

Canonical
29 June 2016


Canonical
27 June 2016

New starter Davide (Project Manager) – “A working team is very precious”

Design Ubuntu

Meet the newest member of the Design Team, project manager Davide Casa. He will be working with the Platform Team to keep us all in check and working towards our goals. I sat down with him to discuss his background, what he thinks makes a good project manager and what his first week was like

Canonical
27 June 2016


Canonical
27 June 2016

App Design Clinic – OwnCloud App #9

Design Ubuntu

The Ubuntu App Design Clinic is back! This month members of the Design Team James Mulholland (UX Designer), Jouni Helminen (Visual Designer) and Andrea Bernabei (UX Engineer) sat down with Dan Wood, contributor to the OwnCloud app. What is OwnCloud? OwnCloud is an open source project, self-hosted file sync and share app...

Canonical
27 June 2016


Canonical
20 June 2016

A New Research Cloud on Ubuntu OpenStack

Article Cloud and server

If you’re starting from almost scratch, and – where many people are – you don’t have any skill, you don’t have any training, you don’t have much of an idea of what you want to do, Then [BootStack] is a very good place to start. The University of Cape Town (UCT), in South Africa, recently

Canonical
20 June 2016


Canonical
15 June 2016

Special report: Low latency and real-time kernels for telco and NFV

Article Cloud and server

The kernel is the fundamental core of a computer operating system. It is the first program to load, and it manages all core functions of the computer. With the expanding role of the Linux kernel in systems today, Canonical is often asked to provide leadership and support for kernel offerings for many purposes. Recently,...

Canonical
15 June 2016


Canonical
14 June 2016

Universal “snap” packages launch on multiple Linux distros

Article Internet of Things

Developers from multiple Linux distributions and companies today announced collaboration on the “snap” universal Linux package format,  enabling a single binary package to work perfectly and securely on any Linux desktop, server, cloud or device. This community is working at snapcraft.io to provide a single publication...

Canonical
14 June 2016


Canonical
6 June 2016

Vendors embrace Juju model-driven operations

News Cloud and server

Vendors delivering SAAS experience on-premises with Juju charms Charms encapsulate deployment, integration, management, support, operations Reusable charms greatly reduce the operations cost of big software Centres of gravity around big data, machine learning and container management Rapid growth in use of Juju for...

Canonical
6 June 2016


Canonical
11 May 2016

App design guide to go live (bit by bit)

Featured Ubuntu

In the coming months we will be rolling out the new app design guidelines, which will give you the latest toolkit best practices and patterns so you can make your own convergent app for Ubuntu. Why do we need design guidelines? The guidelines are a big part of communicating design practices and philosophy to the

Canonical
11 May 2016


Canonical
26 April 2016

Wolfram Research releases Data Drop Logging app for Ubuntu Phone

Article Phone and tablet

Canonical and Wolfram Research® are excited to announce the first app collaboration with cloud connect functionality for Ubuntu developers and users. The Wolfram Data Drop™ Logging mobile application is available now on the Ubuntu Phone and is already available to download from the Ubuntu Store. This is the first in a...

Canonical
26 April 2016


Canonical
20 April 2016

Canonical unveils 6th LTS release of Ubuntu with 16.04

News Cloud and server

Introduces “snaps” for new robust, secure app format Introduces LXD pure-container hypervisor with OpenStack Mitaka Supports IBM Z and LinuxONE systems with flat pricing Steps towards converged Ubuntu across IOT, Phone, Desktop and Server Introduces ZFS and CephFS for large-scale cloud storage LONDON 20th April 2016:...

Canonical
20 April 2016


Canonical
12 April 2016

Ubuntu OpenStack growth confirmed by latest OpenStack User Survey

Article Cloud and server

The most recent OpenStack user survey has gone live. In it we see tremendous growth for Ubuntu OpenStack in production clouds. We’re super excited about the support the community continues to show for Ubuntu. Here at Canonical we get to work with the world’s largest production OpenStack clouds, from telco to big data and pure

Canonical
12 April 2016


Canonical
11 April 2016

Nexenta & Canonical to Deliver Joint Software-Defined Storage Solution

Article Ubuntu

NexentaEdge Charms now available via Juju Charm Store; Canonical to offer NexentaEdge to enterprise customers SANTA CLARA, Calif. and LONDON, UK – April 6, 2016 — Nexenta, the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS), and Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu and Ubuntu OpenStack, have today...

Canonical
11 April 2016


Canonical
7 April 2016

LXD networking: lxdbr0 explained

Article Cloud and server

Recently, LXD stopped depending on lxc, and thus moved to using its own bridge, called lxdbr0. lxdbr0 behaves significantly differently than lxcbr0: it is ipv6 link local only by default (i.e. there is no ipv4 or ipv6 subnet configured by default), and only HTTP traffic is proxied over the network. This means that e.g. you

Canonical
7 April 2016