Blog posts tagged
"Windows"

33 posts

Dimitri John Ledkov
11 July 2017

Windows 10 loves Ubuntu

Article Desktop

Ubuntu 16.04 is now available as an app from the Windows Store for users running Windows Insider builds. The newly improved app is created by Canonical in collaboration with the Microsoft WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) team as a result of the work announced at Microsoft Build 2017 Conference, after the first...

Dimitri John Ledkov
11 July 2017

Stéphane Graber
27 February 2017

LXD client on Windows and macOS

Article Cloud and server

LXD on other operating systems? While LXD and especially its API have been designed in a mostly OS-agnostic way, the only OS supported for the daemon right now is Linux (and a rather recent Linux at that). However since all … Continue reading →

Stéphane Graber
27 February 2017

Dustin Kirkland
9 August 2016

Howdy, Windows! A Six-part Series about Ubuntu-on-Windows for Linux.com

Article Cloud and server

I hope you’ll enjoy a shiny new 6-part blog series I recently published at Linux.com.The first article is a bit of back story, perhaps a behind-the-scenes look at the motivations, timelines, and some of the work performed between Microsoft and Canonica

Dustin Kirkland
9 August 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

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

Maria Bonnefon
27 August 2015

Windows 10: is it finally time to migrate to Ubuntu?

Article Desktop

Public and private enterprises across the world have been using Microsoft Windows for years, but it calls into question whether this is in fact the best choice or simply force of habit? With recent security and performance issues coming to the fore, an increasing number of companies are exploring the benefits of using...

Maria Bonnefon
27 August 2015

Canonical
21 May 2015

Cloudbase and Canonical partner to bring Windows Hyper-V Support

Article Cloud and server

Partners bring Windows Hyper-V support to managed OpenStack clouds Cloudbase Solutions, the developer of Windows components in OpenStack, announced today that it is partnering with Canonical to enable their customers to run KVM and Hyper-V environments side-by-side in the same managed cloud. Cloudbase Solutions believes...

Canonical
21 May 2015

Canonical
19 May 2015

The Open Enterprise Cloud – OpenStack’s Holy Grail?

Article Cloud and server

The way people think about the enterprise IT is changing fast, putting into question many common assumptions on how hardware and software should be designed and deployed. The upending of these long held tenets of Enterprise IT are happening simply due to the innovation brought on by OpenStack and a handful of other...

Canonical
19 May 2015

Canonical
20 November 2014

MAAS 1.7: one MAAS, multiple operating systems

Article Cloud and server

A few weeks ago, we released Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for servers and cloud, which included a beta version of Metal-As-A-Service (MAAS) 1.7. Today, we are delighted to release this version for general availability. The flagship new feature is that MAAS is now able to provision all major server operating systems. Together with...

Canonical
20 November 2014

Canonical
2 September 2014

Your guest, your choice: running Windows Server on Ubuntu OpenStack

Article Cloud and server

It is no secret that Ubuntu is by far the most popular cloud guest OS on the world’s major public clouds. Figures range from 55-75% depending on the source and the cloud provider in question, but it’s something we are very proud of and a status we seek to maintain and grow. However, the spirit

Canonical
2 September 2014

Dustin Kirkland
20 May 2014

Cloudbase Solutions partnership

News Cloud and server

We are happy to announce a partnership with Cloudbase Solutions for bringing Windows support in Juju and MaaS. During the keynote of the OpenStack Summit in Atlanta we presented OpenStack integration with Hyper-V as well as Active Directory, SQL Server and SharePoint Juju charms, providing a clear idea of the huge...

Dustin Kirkland
20 May 2014

Canonical
14 December 2012

Top 10 questions about Ubuntu

Article Cloud and server

It’s the end of the year, we met with lots of people from all around the world, at various conferences and events and wherever they were from and whatever their role in IT was, the same questions always seem to come back. So we thought we’d list the top 10 questions we get, here, for

Canonical
14 December 2012

Canonical
4 December 2012

How will consumerisation of personal devices affect the choice of OS?

News Desktop

Best of our webinars – (Relates to content in this webinar) Along with the cloud, one of the big trends in corporate IT in recent years is the consumerisation of personal computing. Telecoms contracts have made smartphones affordable for nearly everyone, encouraging many business people to start using their iPhone or...

Canonical
4 December 2012

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