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A peek at the Snapcraft Summit
by Sergio Schvezov on 26 January 2018
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...
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LXD: five easy pieces
by Michael Iatrou on 26 January 2018
Machine containers, like LXD, proliferate in the datacenters: they provide a native control plane for OpenStack and a lightweight hypervisor for its tenants....
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Bionic Beaver 18.04 LTS to use Xorg by default
by Will Cooke on 26 January 2018
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...
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Meltdown, Spectre and Ubuntu: What you need to know
by Christian Reis on 24 January 2018
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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Ubuntu Desktop weekly update – 22 January 2018
by Will Cooke on 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...
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Your first robot: Introduction to the Robot Operating System [2/5]
by Kyle Fazzari on 21 January 2018
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Tutorial: Continuous delivery of snaps with Circle CI
by David Callé on 19 January 2018
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...
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Canonical brings Slack to the snap ecosystem
by Canonical on 18 January 2018
The digital workspace will now be available to all Linux users London, UK – 18th January 2018 – Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, today announced the...
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Spectre mitigation updates available for testing in Ubuntu Proposed
by Dustin Kirkland on 17 January 2018
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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Announcing the Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition 9370 with Ubuntu
by Canonical on 5 January 2018
We’re excited to see Dell announce the availability of the 7th gen XPS 13 Developer Edition (9370) which comes preloaded with Ubuntu. Canonical have been part...
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Ubuntu Updates for the Meltdown / Spectre Vulnerabilities
by Dustin Kirkland on 4 January 2018
For up-to-date patch, package, and USN links, please refer to: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/KnowledgeBase/SpectreAndMeltdown Unfortunately, you’ve...
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Canonical welcome Spotify as a snap for Linux users
by Canonical on 20 December 2017
Universal Linux app packaging format enables Linux users to install the popular music streaming service with a simple click and install London, UK – December...