Blog posts tagged
"Ubuntu"

478 posts


Anthony Dillon
19 December 2018

Design and Web team summary – 19 December 2018

Article Cloud and server

Welcome to the latest work and updates from the design and web team. Base squad This week, the bulk of our work was on improving our internal system for employee reviews, but we found time to squeeze in a few other things: We also progressed with the initial work for moving our Juju documentation into

Anthony Dillon
19 December 2018


Guest
3 December 2018

Collaborative robots – Cobots and the changing nature of work

Article Internet of Things

  This is a guest blog by Jamie Branch, Corrosion Engineer at Apellix.  Collaborative robots, or cobots, work side by side with humans to enhance human worker’s ability to perform their job safer, with less monotony and repetitive tasks. Most of us are familiar with industrial robots and it should be no surprise that people

Guest
3 December 2018


Simon Fels
29 November 2018

Running Android in the Cloud with Amazon EC2 A1 instances

Article Cloud and server

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the availability of their new Amazon EC2 A1 instances powered by custom AWS Graviton processors based on the Arm architecture, which brings Arm to the public cloud as a first class citizen. Arm based processors provide a number of benefits in terms of density and power-consumption...

Simon Fels
29 November 2018


Sarah Dickinson
28 November 2018

Six reasons why developers choose Ubuntu Desktop

Article Desktop

Used in more than 240 countries, by governments, enterprises, and consumers alike, Ubuntu Desktop is the number one Linux operating system (OS) in the world. Ubuntu Desktop is used by leading technology companies in no small part down to the popularity amongst software developers for which it is an attractive platform...

Sarah Dickinson
28 November 2018


Canonical
26 November 2018

Ubuntu at KubeCon & CloudNativeCon

Article Cloud and server

KubeCon and CloudNativeCon are just around the corner and Ubuntu will be out in force. Held between December 10th – 13th at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, KubeCon and CloudNativeCon will be a great opportunity to meet and talk with the Ubuntu team here at Canonical. The Ubuntu team will be showcasing their

Canonical
26 November 2018


James Nunns
21 November 2018

Ubuntu, security & compliance

Webinar Cloud and server

Security, regulations and compliance are everyday issues for businesses, whether global or not. HIPAA, GDPR, MiFID II, and a whole host of other regulations, security and compliance demands are shaping the way businesses operate and the technologies that they can use. Although technological choices are not always able...

James Nunns
21 November 2018


Guest
14 November 2018

Innovating toward safety: computer controlled aerial robotic systems

Article Internet of Things

This is a guest blog by Jamie Branch, Corrosion Engineer at Apellix.  In the United States alone, 849 workers lost their lives in 2016 from falling while on the job. In the construction industry specifically, falls are the leading cause of worker fatality. At Apellix, we utilise Ubuntu and proprietary software to create...

Guest
14 November 2018


Guest
9 November 2018

The rise of the Digital Smart Kiosk

Article Internet of Things

This is a guest blog by Jody Smith, Product Manager at Broadsign.  The world’s increasing demand for quick, personalised service often clashes with budgetary concerns and the limited throughput that individual workers are capable of. Fortunately, there’s a solution: touch-enabled, digital smart kiosks. Today’s smart...

Guest
9 November 2018


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


Alex Cattle
6 November 2018

How Ubuntu is at the forefront of security & compliance

Article Cloud and server

Whether it is HIPAA, MiFID II or GDPR, the importance of being compliant cannot be underestimated. Protecting your customers and avoiding the significant financial and reputational ramifications that threaten non-compliant organisations, is a must, and this starts with the technology powering your enterprise. Ubuntu is...

Alex Cattle
6 November 2018


Alex Murray
1 November 2018

A guide to snap permissions and interfaces

Article Desktop

Snap is a Linux application package management system which allow developers to easily publish self contained software packages (snaps) that work across many distributions and versions of Linux. Snaps have security at their heart, and are designed to ensure all applications support the principle of least privilege /...

Alex Murray
1 November 2018


Canonical
1 November 2018

Canonical’s Distribution of Kubernetes supported on Arm architecture

Article Canonical announcements

Today, Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, announces that Canonical’s Distribution of Kubernetes (CDK) is now commercially available and supported on processors and servers based on 64-bit Arm® v8-A architecture. The data centre is evolving to support new workload requirements, it is transforming to be optimised for...

Canonical
1 November 2018


Mark Shuttleworth
30 October 2018

Statement on the IBM acquisition of Red Hat

Canonical News Canonical announcements

Over the past two years, many prominent Red Hat customers have selected Ubuntu and engaged Canonical to build leaner, more efficient open source infrastructure and solutions for important new initiatives. Among them we count the world’s leading banks, telcos, governments, universities, airlines, insurance companies,...

Mark Shuttleworth
30 October 2018


James Nunns
20 October 2018

Canonical and Ubuntu – user statistics

Desktop Desktop

Most stories are pretty clear and straightforward, heroes, villains, friends, enemies. There’s clear lines as to who is involved with who and what is going on. Then you arrive at the story of Canonical and Ubuntu and things aren’t quite so clear anymore, lines are blurred. Ubuntu appears everywhere, sometimes...

James Nunns
20 October 2018