Blog posts tagged
"Ubuntu"

478 posts


Thibaut Rouffineau
31 May 2016

Snaps on NAS: IOT apps for your private network

Article Desktop

QNAP selects snaps and Ubuntu to bring IOT apps to its NAS On Friday QNAP announced that they were adopting snaps as the application format of choice for their NAS going forward. Behind this decision are two factors, the ease of development of snaps and the universality of snaps, especially to create IoT applications. NAS

Thibaut Rouffineau
31 May 2016


Mark Shuttleworth
17 May 2016

Thank you CC

Article Desktop

Just to state publicly my gratitude that the Ubuntu Community Council has taken on their responsibilities very thoughtfully, and has demonstrated a proactive interest in keeping the community happy, healthy and unblocked. Their role is a critical one in the Ubuntu project, because we are at our best when we are...

Mark Shuttleworth
17 May 2016


Amrisha Prashar
26 April 2016

The most powerful Ubuntu phone is available to buy

Article Phone and tablet

We’re excited to announce that the most powerful Ubuntu phone, Meizu PRO 5 Ubuntu edition, is available to order here from en.jd.com, retailing at USD$369.99. And for our friends based in Russia, the phone can be ordered here. The Meizu PRO 5 Ubuntu Edition features superior high spec hardware and ships with the latest Ubuntu

Amrisha Prashar
26 April 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


Dustin Kirkland
14 April 2016

HOWTO: Ubuntu on Windows

Article Cloud and server

As announced last week, Microsoft and Canonical have worked together to bring Ubuntu’s userspace natively into Windows 10.As of today, Windows 10 Insiders can now take Ubuntu on Windows for a test drive!  Here’s how…1) You need to have a system

Dustin Kirkland
14 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


Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
7 April 2016

infographic: How many people use Ubuntu?

Article Cloud and server

Discover the range of industries, people and services that are using Ubuntu right now. Netflix. Snapchat. Dropbox. Uber. Tesla…and the International space station – what do they all have in common? They run on Ubuntu. To celebrate our upcoming 16.04 LTS we wanted to shine a bit of light on how many people in the

Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
7 April 2016


Amrisha Prashar
6 April 2016

Phone Update: OTA-10 – New theme and color palette

Article Phone and tablet

We have a summary list of updates made for OTA-10 below! The following apps are now pre-installed by default: Email app (Dekko) Calendar app uNav   General enhancements: New theme and color palette Updated OOBE (Out Of Box Experience – provides a better initial setup experience for new users) Updated Edge tutorial VPN...

Amrisha Prashar
6 April 2016


Dustin Kirkland
1 April 2016

Still have questions about Bash and Ubuntu on Windows?

Article Cloud and server

Still have questions about Ubuntu on Windows?Watch this Channel 9 session, recorded live at Build this week, hosted by Scott Hanselman, with questions answered by Windows kernel developers Russ Alexander, Ben Hillis, and myself representing Canonical a

Dustin Kirkland
1 April 2016


Dustin Kirkland
30 March 2016

Ubuntu on Windows – The Ubuntu Userspace for Windows Developers

Article Cloud and server

I’m in San Francisco this week, attending Microsoft’s Build developer conference, as a sponsored guest of Microsoft.That’s perhaps a bit odd for me, as I hadn’t used Windows in nearly 16 years.  But that changed a few months ago, as I embarked on

Dustin Kirkland
30 March 2016


Canonical
23 March 2016

MWC 2016: Our biggest show yet

Article Cloud and server

  For the whole Canonical team, Mobile World Congress 2016 was a momentous event. Not only were we sitting alongside some of the biggest technology companies in the world in Hall 3, but our big, beautiful stand was the best yet; showing off our latest innovation perfectly. Mobile World Congress was the perfect place to

Canonical
23 March 2016


Chris Kenyon
23 March 2016

Tele2 begins major shift to cloud with Canonical

News Cloud and server

Tele2, one of Europe’s most innovative telecom operators, announced today that it will move its Network and IT infrastructure to the cloud to pave the way for future investment and network build out to 5G. This move puts Tele2 at the vanguard of the move to Network Function Virtualisation (NFV), a once in a generation change

Chris Kenyon
23 March 2016


Stéphane Graber
16 March 2016

LXD 2.0: Installing and configuring LXD [2/12]

Article Cloud and server

This is the second blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.Where to get LXD and how to install itThere are many ways to get the latest and greatest LXD. We recommend you use LXD with the latest LXC and Linux kernel to benefit from all its features but we try to degrade gracefully where possible to support older Linux...

Stéphane Graber
16 March 2016