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UbuCon Europe – a sure sign of community strength

by Canonical on 1 December 2016

UbuCon Europe, 18-20 Nov 2016, Essen, Germany Recovering from a great UbuCon Europe session that just took place a couple weeks ago! This year was attended by...

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Mir is not only about Unity8

by Guest on 28 November 2016

This is a guest post by Alan Griffiths, Software engineer at Canonical. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact...

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VisionMobile: State of the Developer Nation Survey

by Amrisha Prashar on 21 November 2016

We’re proud to be supporting the State of the Developer Nation Survey run by our friends at VisionMobile! This is the 12th developer survey, focusing on a 360...

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10 IoT-focused desktop snaps written in October

by didrocks on 3 November 2016

This month we’ve selected 10 of our favourite IoT targeted snaps! And to recap for those of you that may not know, snaps are a new way for developers to...

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Ubuntu 16.10 brings Unity 8 to desktop and more snap installations

by Amrisha Prashar on 3 November 2016

The recent release of Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak includes a developer preview of Unity 8 for desktop and the installation of snaps! The universal ‘snap’ Linux...

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Static code analyser for Ubuntu

by Guest on 2 November 2016

This is a guest post by Ekaterina Milovidova, from viva64. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact [email protected] Static...

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Travel-friendly Lemur Ubuntu laptop updated to Kaby Lake

by Guest on 27 October 2016

This is a guest post by Ryan Sipes, community manager at System76. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact [email protected]...

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Infographic: Ubuntu Advantage explained

by Canonical on 25 October 2016

Ubuntu Advantage is the commercial support package from Canonical. It includes Landscape, the Ubuntu systems management tool, and the Canonical Livepatch...

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Live kernel patching from Canonical now available for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

by Tom Callway on 20 October 2016

We are delighted to announce the availability of a new service for Ubuntu which any user can enable on their current installations – the Canonical Livepatch...

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Unity 8 preview session in Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak

by Will Cooke on 13 October 2016

Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak has landed and brings with it the Unity 8 technical preview desktop session. Unity 8 has been the face of the Ubuntu phone and tablet...

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10 desktop snaps written in September

by Didier Roche on 5 October 2016

We’ve been speaking a lot around snaps…and as a re-cap for those that may not know, snaps are a new way for developers to package their apps, bringing with it...

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The new XPS 13 Developer Edition lands in Europe and United States

by Guest on 5 October 2016

This is a guest post by Barton George from Dell. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact [email protected] Today the 6th...