Blog posts tagged
"Ubuntu"

478 posts


Jorge O. Castro
5 January 2016

Celebrating over 10 million Vagrant Ubuntu downloads

Article Cloud and server

Vagrant is a popular devops tool because it allows developers to easily manage virtual machines on their laptop. While this sounds easy, Vagrant allows people to finally develop on their machines using the same libraries as the operating system that’s in their server room. And since it uses virtual machines, everything...

Jorge O. Castro
5 January 2016


Dustin Kirkland
22 December 2015

More people use Ubuntu than anyone actually knows

Article Cloud and server

People of earth, waving at Saturn, courtesy of NASA.“It Doesn’t Look Like Ubuntu Reached Its Goal Of 200 Million Users This Year”, says Michael Larabel of Phoronix, in a post that it seems he’s been itching to post for months.Why the negativity?!? Are you sure? Did you count all of them?No one has.  And no one can count...

Dustin Kirkland
22 December 2015


Canonical
14 December 2015

Ubuntu is about people

Article Cloud and server

Ubuntu has been around for just over a decade. That’s a long time for a project built around a field that evolves at such a rapid pace as computing. And not just any computing –software made for (and by) human beings, who have also inevitably grown and evolved with Ubuntu.Over the years, Ubuntu has changed and has lead...

Canonical
14 December 2015


Canonical
24 November 2015

Opus 2 develops the “legal cloud of the future” on Ubuntu OpenStack

Case study Cloud and server

London-based Opus 2 International is an independent software and services provider specialising in technology for the legal profession. Opus 2’s flagship service, Magnum™, is built entirely on Ubuntu OpenStack and has dramatically simplified the way in which legal evidence is managed: Opus 2 Magnum™ users report 66%...

Canonical
24 November 2015


Canonical
20 November 2015

Ubuntu Community Appreciation Day

Featured Ubuntu

Today we celebrate our amazing Ubuntu Community and show our appreciation for all the hard work put into making Ubuntu what it is today. Ubuntu is not just an operating system, it is a whole community in which everybody collaborates with everybody to bring to the life a wonderful human experience. When you download the

Canonical
20 November 2015


dimitern
8 November 2015

Deploying OpenStack on MAAS 1.9+ with Juju

Article Cloud and server

In the past months our Juju Core Sapphire team has been working on the design, planning, and implementation of a set of extended networking features for Juju 1.25 and the upcoming (January 2016) 1.26 releases. The main focus is enabling users of Juju to have a finer-grained control over how their services are deployed...

dimitern
8 November 2015


April Wang
4 November 2015

Another wave of hacking in China this time with TechCrunch

Article Internet of Things

After undertaking several Ubuntu Phone led hackathons in Beijing and Shenzhen, we embraced the opportunity to be part of the TechCrunch one this past weekend in Beijing (31st Oct-1st Nov). This hackathon afforded us the chance to meet more Ubuntu fans, introduce the OS to more developers and interact with participants...

April Wang
4 November 2015


Canonical
29 October 2015

The Ubuntu Online Summit starts next week

Article Cloud and server

Starting on Tuesday 3rd to Thursday 5th of November, a new edition of the Ubuntu Online Summit is taking place next week. Three days of free and live content all around Ubuntu and Open Source: discussions, tutorials, demos, presentations and Q+As for anyone to get in touch with the latest news and technologies, and get

Canonical
29 October 2015


Guest
26 October 2015

An nova-compute-lxd update

Article Cloud and server

For the past couple of months, we have been working hard on adding new features to nova-compute-lxd (nclxd). The new features that have been added go beyond starting and stopping containers, to make it more useful for day to day use. An example is container migration: The above video shows a container migrating between two

Guest
26 October 2015


Canonical
22 October 2015

What’s new in Ubuntu 15.10: desktop and devices

Article Desktop

The desktop edition of Ubuntu 15.10 will be available for download from today – 22nd October – with the latest developer tools and freshest desktop interface, with a preview of the converged phone, desktop and tablet experience that has been making waves in the tech community. Over-the-air updates to Ubuntu Phone Users...

Canonical
22 October 2015


Canonical
22 October 2015

What’s new in Ubuntu 15.10: cloud and server?

News Cloud and server

General availability of Canonical’s OpenStack Autopilot, the fastest and easiest way to build an Ubuntu OpenStack cloud LXD machine containers: a pure container hypervisor hosting Ubuntu, CentOS and other Linux guests Tech Preview:  nova-compute-lxd OpenStack driver for machine containers Tech Preview: DPDK fast network...

Canonical
22 October 2015


Canonical
21 October 2015

Announcing the UbuCon Summit

Article Desktop

I am thrilled to announce the next big event in the Ubuntu calendar: the UbuCon Summit, taking place in Pasadena, CA, in the US, from the 21st to 22nd of January 2016, hosted at SCALE and with Mark Shuttleworth on the opening keynote.Taking UbuCons to the next levelUbuCons are a remarkable achievement from the Ubuntu...

Canonical
21 October 2015


Olli Ries
15 October 2015

Update on Ubuntu Phone security issue

Article Phone and tablet

A security vulnerability has been discovered on the Ubuntu Phone. We take security very seriously, and want to provide clear information as to what happened; and what steps have been taken to rectify the issue and protect against future similar incidents. At this point, we believe that the core issue has been addressed. An app

Olli Ries
15 October 2015


John Dolen
8 October 2015

Ubuntu with IBM Power Systems LC models for big data

Article Cloud and server

Juju makes it easy to model and deploy Spark and other analytics solution bundles IBM has extended its range of Ubuntu supported systems with today’s announcement of the Power Systems LC models. Canonical, along with fellow OpenPOWER Foundation members – Mellanox, NVIDIA, Tyan and Wistron, collaborated with IBM on the...

John Dolen
8 October 2015