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Ubuntu Server development summary – 30 January 2018

Hello Ubuntu Server! The purpose of this communication is to provide a status update and highlights for any interesting subjects from the Ubuntu Server Team....

Tutorial: Install Ubuntu on a Chromebook

Chromebooks have gained popularity as relatively inexpensive web-centric laptops. They give access to web-based and native applications through the Chrome...

NTT TechnoCross becomes Canonical Certified Support Partner in Japan

NTT TechnoCross Corporation has signed a partnership agreement with Canonical to provide strengthened OSS support to its customers in Japan including...

LXD weekly status #32

The focus of this week has been preparing for our trip to Brussels where we’ll be spending 3 days all working together on LXD before attending and presenting...

A peek at the Snapcraft Summit

The Snapcraft Summit, taking place in Seattle from January 29th to February 2nd, is a forward-thinking five day software hackathon being attended by major...

LXD: five easy pieces

Machine containers, like LXD, proliferate in the datacenters: they provide a native control plane for OpenStack and a lightweight hypervisor for its tenants....

Bionic Beaver 18.04 LTS to use Xorg by default

Bionic Beaver, the codename for the next Ubuntu LTS release, is due in April 2018 and will ship with both the traditional Xorg graphics stack as well as the...

Meltdown, Spectre and Ubuntu: What you need to know

As details of the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities1 have become clearer a number of statements have been published by the multiple vendors affected;...


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Kernel team summary – 24 January 2018

January 09 through January 23 The Kernel Team is completely focused on addressing any Spectre and Meltdown issues as they arise. A secure Ubuntu is our top...

LXD weekly status #31

Introduction Nothing too major happened this past week. Part of the time was at an internal planning meeting and the rest have been working on clustering,...

Ubuntu Server development summary – 23 January 2018

  The purpose of this communication is to provide a status update and highlights for any interesting subjects from the Ubuntu Server Team. If you would like...

Ubuntu Desktop weekly update – 22 January 2018

Here’s an update on what we’ve been working on over the last couple of weeks: GNOME We’ve been working on a patch for udisks to hide snaps from applications...

Your first robot: Introduction to the Robot Operating System [2/5]

This is the second blog post in this series about creating your first robot with ROS and Ubuntu Core. In the previous post we walked through all the hardware...

Tutorial: Continuous delivery of snaps with Circle CI

Bullet-proof continuous delivery of software is crucial to the health of your community, more than a way to run manual tests, it also enables your early...

Canonical brings Slack to the snap ecosystem

The digital workspace will now be available to all Linux users London, UK – 18th January 2018 – Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, today announced the...

Spectre mitigation updates available for testing in Ubuntu Proposed

Canonical holds Ubuntu to the highest standards of security and quality.  This week we published candidate Ubuntu kernels providing mitigation for...


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