Blog posts tagged
"Linux"

36 posts


Leia Ruffini
30 March 2021

Ubuntu in the wild – 30th of March 2021

Article Cloud and server

The Ubuntu in the wild blog post ropes in the latest highlights about Ubuntu and Canonical around the world on a bi-weekly basis.

Leia Ruffini
30 March 2021


Andreea Munteanu
17 March 2021

Ubuntu in the wild – 17th of March 2021

Article Cloud and server

The Ubuntu in the wild blog post ropes in the latest highlights about Ubuntu and Canonical around the world on a bi-weekly basis.

Andreea Munteanu
17 March 2021


Lech Sandecki
9 March 2021

Open source enterprise support vs free open source use

Article Cloud and server

Many enterprises use open source enterprise support from a vendor, such as Red Hat or Canonical, to boost uptime and peace of mind. Others choose to use open source without any additional vendor support, relying on one of the major benefits of open source – the robust community support that is freely available....

Lech Sandecki
9 March 2021


Igor Ljubuncic
11 February 2021

How to keep your Linux disk usage nice and tidy and save space

Article Desktop

Everyone loves a clean, tidy home (hopefully). This also includes your other home – slash home, the Linux home directory. Disk cleanup and management utilities are extremely popular in Windows, but not so much in Linux. This means that users who want to do a bit of housekeeping in their distro may not necessarily have

Igor Ljubuncic
11 February 2021


Canonical
8 July 2020

Canonical enables Linux desktop app support with Flutter

Article Canonical announcements

By Chris Sells (Google) & Ken VanDine (Canonical) Google’s goal for Flutter has always been to provide a portable framework for building beautiful UIs that run at native speeds no matter what platform you target. To validate this capability, we started by focusing on the mobile platforms, Android and iOS, where we’ve...

Canonical
8 July 2020


Tytus Kurek
16 June 2020

Is Ubuntu an enterprise Linux distribution?

Article Cloud and server

Is Ubuntu an enterprise Linux distribution? If you are asking, you are probably wondering if you can use Ubuntu anywhere else other than your workstation or development environment. Perhaps you are wondering whether you can implement Ubuntu in your enterprise, including production environments? If that is the case, I...

Tytus Kurek
16 June 2020


Alex Cattle
14 November 2019

Lessons learned from 100+ private cloud builds

Article Cloud and server

Building a private cloud based on OpenStack has typically been a complex process with uncertain build costs based on time and materials requiring specialised expertise and low-level Linux OS knowledge. To help enterprises overcome these challenges,Canonical offers Private Cloud Build to provide businesses with a fully...

Alex Cattle
14 November 2019


Alex Cattle
30 July 2019

A shift to the Linux app store experience

Article Internet of Things

Linux software developers historically have faced a number of challenges including fragmentation, distribution complexity and a lack of metrics into the success of their applications. Once an application is built, the journey does not end there – for companies and individual developers creating apps, thought needs to be...

Alex Cattle
30 July 2019


Eric Jensen
26 April 2019

Ubuntu is the #1 embedded Linux for IoT

Article Internet of Things

The results are in! Eclipse.org recently published their 2019 IoT Developer Survey. Ubuntu is again the top choice for embedded & IoT, with our cousins Raspbian and Debian taking 2nd and 3rd respectively. The numbers fall off pretty steeply after that. 😉 For those who create embedded products or solutions, the message...

Eric Jensen
26 April 2019


Eric Jensen
16 April 2019

Industrial & Embedded Linux: Looking Ahead

Article Internet of Things

I recently returned from an extended visit to Germany, where my colleagues and I kept busy attending conferences, visiting customers and partners. We travelled around the country, talking to many, many people at dozens of companies about embedded Linux. We confirmed existing trend data, and gained exciting new insights!...

Eric Jensen
16 April 2019


Canonical
4 February 2019

Ubuntu at Embedded World 2019

Article Internet of Things

Event Details: Date: February 26 – 28, 2019 Location: Nuremberg, Germany Venue: Messe Stand: 4-660 Canonical is excited to return to one of the leading events in the IoT calendar – Embedded World in Nuremberg, Germany. At Embedded World we will be demonstrating how organisations can bring their IoT solutions to market...

Canonical
4 February 2019


Canonical
8 November 2018

Samsung announce Linux on DeX with Ubuntu: for developers on the move

Article Desktop

The Samsung Developer Conference, held this week in San Francisco, brings creators together to discover and learn about the latest technologies in Samsung’s portfolio and further afield. One of the technologies showcased, following the initial demo in 2017, is Samsung’s Linux on DeX. Samsung DeX, launched last year,...

Canonical
8 November 2018


Canonical
16 November 2017

Security Team Weekly Summary: November 16, 2017

Article Cloud and server

  The Security Team weekly reports are intended to be very short summaries of the Security Team’s weekly activities. If you would like to reach the Security Team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-hardened channel on FreeNode. Alternatively, you can mail the Ubuntu Hardened mailing list at: ubuntu-hardened@lists.ubuntu.com...

Canonical
16 November 2017


Stéphane Graber
13 November 2017

LXD Weekly Status #23

Article Cloud and server

Introduction The main focus this past week has been on merging a pretty large refactoring branch on top of LXD. This moves a lot of code around to make it more testable and easier to plug in a new database implementation in preparation for some clustering features. We’ve done a few minor improvements like adding

Stéphane Graber
13 November 2017