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Sergio Schvezov
26 January 2018

A peek at the Snapcraft Summit

Article Desktop

The Snapcraft Summit, taking place in Seattle from January 29th to February 2nd, is a forward-thinking five day software hackathon being attended by major software vendors and snap developers working to move the industry forward with software delivery. In the style introduced by the famous BarCamps of old, the agenda is...

Sergio Schvezov
26 January 2018

Michael Iatrou
26 January 2018

LXD: five easy pieces

Article Cloud and server

Machine containers, like LXD, proliferate in the datacenters: they provide a native control plane for OpenStack and a lightweight hypervisor for its tenants. LXD optimizes resource allocation and utilization for Kubernetes clusters, modernizes workload management in HPC infrastructure and streamlines lift and shift for...

Michael Iatrou
26 January 2018

Will Cooke
26 January 2018

Bionic Beaver 18.04 LTS to use Xorg by default

News Desktop

Bionic Beaver, the codename for the next Ubuntu LTS release, is due in April 2018 and will ship with both the traditional Xorg graphics stack as well as the newer Wayland based stack, but Xorg will be the default. 17.10, released in October 2017, ships with the Wayland based graphics server as the default and

Will Cooke
26 January 2018

Christian Reis
24 January 2018

Meltdown, Spectre and Ubuntu: What you need to know

Article Cloud and server

As details of the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities1 have become clearer a number of statements have been published by the multiple vendors affected; Canonical has issued advisories and updates on fixes and mitigations, the latest of which includes a first round of Spectre mitigations. However, most of these...

Christian Reis
24 January 2018

Will Cooke
22 January 2018

Ubuntu Desktop weekly update – 22 January 2018

News Desktop

Here’s an update on what we’ve been working on over the last couple of weeks: GNOME We’ve been working on a patch for udisks to hide snaps from applications such as GNOME’s Disks. This will hide all loop devices, including installed snaps, from disk management utilities making it less confusing and less cluttered....

Will Cooke
22 January 2018

Kyle Fazzari
21 January 2018

Your first robot: Introduction to the Robot Operating System [2/5]

Article Desktop

This is the second blog post in this series about creating your first robot with ROS and Ubuntu Core. In the previous post we walked through all the hardware necessary to follow this series, and introduced Ubuntu Core, the operating system for IoT devices. We installed it on our Raspberry Pi, and used it to

Kyle Fazzari
21 January 2018

David Callé
19 January 2018

Tutorial: Continuous delivery of snaps with Circle CI

Tutorials Desktop

Bullet-proof continuous delivery of software is crucial to the health of your community, more than a way to run manual tests, it also enables your early adopters to test code and give feedback on it as soon as it lands. You may be already using build.snapcraft.io to do so for snaps, but in some cases,

David Callé
19 January 2018

Canonical
18 January 2018

Canonical brings Slack to the snap ecosystem

News Canonical announcements

The digital workspace will now be available to all Linux users London, UK – 18th January 2018 – Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, today announced the first iteration of Slack as a snap, bringing collaboration to open source users. Slack is an enterprise software platform that allows teams and businesses of all sizes...

Canonical
18 January 2018

Dustin Kirkland
17 January 2018

Spectre mitigation updates available for testing in Ubuntu Proposed

Article Cloud and server

Canonical holds Ubuntu to the highest standards of security and quality. This week we published candidate Ubuntu kernels providing mitigation for CVE-2017-5715 and CVE-2017-5753 (ie, Spectre / Variants 1 & 2) to their respective -proposed pockets for Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful), 16.04 LTS (Xenial), and 14.04 LTS (Trusty)....

Dustin Kirkland
17 January 2018

Canonical
5 January 2018

Announcing the Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition 9370 with Ubuntu

Article Desktop

We’re excited to see Dell announce the availability of the 7th gen XPS 13 Developer Edition (9370) which comes preloaded with Ubuntu. Canonical have been part of Dell’s Project Sputnik project since Day 1, and five years later we are delighted to see it continue. In fact, our VP of Product Dustin Kirkland was one

Canonical
5 January 2018

Dustin Kirkland
4 January 2018

Ubuntu Updates for the Meltdown / Spectre Vulnerabilities

Article Canonical announcements

For up-to-date patch, package, and USN links, please refer to: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/KnowledgeBase/SpectreAndMeltdown Unfortunately, you’ve probably already read about one of the most widespread security issues in modern computing history — colloquially known as “Meltdown” (CVE-2017-5754) and...

Dustin Kirkland
4 January 2018

Canonical
20 December 2017

Canonical welcome Spotify as a snap for Linux users

News Canonical announcements

Universal Linux app packaging format enables Linux users to install the popular music streaming service with a simple click and install London, UK – December 20th, 2017 – Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, is happy to announce that Spotify, the world’s leading music streaming service, is now available as a snap, the...

Canonical
20 December 2017

David Callé
20 December 2017

Fresh Snaps from November 2017

Article Desktop

The past month has been exciting in the snap world, between getting ready to welcome our Google Code-in students, improving the developer dashboard and starting to land, piece by piece, the new store frontend, it’s time we take a small break to appreciate some new releases. Featuring IDEs for Go and PHP, production grade film

David Callé
20 December 2017

Sarah Dickinson
19 December 2017

JetBrains adopts snaps to further simplify developers’ lives

Article Desktop

Used by companies as diverse as NASA, Pinterest, and CitiBank, JetBrains takes the repetition out of a developer’s life through their range of developer tools which automate routine checks and corrections. JetBrains offers 21 different tools for developers and in the last couple of months have created snaps for around...

Sarah Dickinson
19 December 2017

All you need to know about the fast, free, and user friendly Ubuntu desktop operating system.

All you need to know about the fast, free, and user friendly
Ubuntu desktop operating system.