Blog posts tagged
"Bionic Beaver"

15 posts

Will Cooke
30 July 2018

National Cyber Security Centre publish Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Security Guide

Article Desktop

Last week the NCSC (National Cyber Security Centre) in the UK issued their latest publication which gives advice on how to configure Ubuntu 18.04 LTS in accordance with their security best practices. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)is the UK government department responsible for providing guidance on...

Will Cooke
30 July 2018

Canonical
23 July 2018

Desktop team report from GUADEC 2018

Article Desktop

This year’s GUADEC [https://2018.guadec.org/] (GNOME Users And Developers Conference) took place in Almeria, Spain.  The main conference was from 6th to 11th July, and for a few days prior to that where the GNOME Advisory Board met for an in-person catch up, and a few days afterwards for BOF days where developers met to...

Canonical
23 July 2018

Will Cooke
22 June 2018

A first look at desktop metrics

Article Desktop

We first announced our intention to ask users to provide basic, not-personally-identifiable system data back in February.  Since then we have built the Ubuntu Report tool and integrated it in to the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS initial setup tool.  You can see an example of the data being collected on the Ubuntu Report Github page....

Will Cooke
22 June 2018

Will Cooke
20 June 2018

Report from the GNOME Software design sprint

Article Desktop

  A couple of weeks ago representatives from across Canonical met in London to talk about ideas to improve the user experience of GNOME Software.  We had people from the store team, snap advocacy, snapd, design and from the desktop team. We were also fortunate enough to be joined by Richard Hughes representing upstream GNOME

Will Cooke
20 June 2018

Will Cooke
13 April 2018

Ubuntu Desktop weekly update – 13 April 2018

Article Desktop

Wow, only two weeks to go until the Beaver is born, this cycle seems have flown by.  So what’s been going on in the last couple of weeks, and what can we expect to change in the run up to release day? We’re still working on adding a new first-login experience to guide people through

Will Cooke
13 April 2018

Joshua Powers
9 April 2018

Ubuntu Bionic: Using chrony to configure NTP

Article Cloud and server

This article originally appeared on Joshua Powers’ blog   Using chrony to configure NTP Starting with Ubuntu Bionic, the choice for fast and accurate time synchronization is chrony. For the features available with chrony and how chrony compares to other time synchronization implementations check out the comparison page...

Joshua Powers
9 April 2018

Will Cooke
23 March 2018

Ubuntu Desktop weekly update – 23rd March 2018

News Desktop

Bid “bonjour” to our Bionic Beaver!   Along with a sneak preview of our official Bionic mascot, it’s a short update this week as we’re all heads-down in bug fixing mode.  There are a couple of links to check out if you’re interested in what sort of data we want to collect about hardware and setup,

Will Cooke
23 March 2018

Will Cooke
16 March 2018

Ubuntu Desktop weekly update – 16th March 2018

News Desktop

We’ve had a busy few weeks, and so this email is a roll up of what’s been going on in Desktopland.  Last week we had a team sprint in Budapest where we got to work side by side with our teammates and colleagues across Canonical.  Feature Freeze has now passed and we’re working on fixing

Will Cooke
16 March 2018

Will Cooke
2 February 2018

Ubuntu Desktop weekly update – February 2, 2018

News Desktop

GNOME As you might have already read, we’ve taken the decision to ship Xorg by default in Bionic 18.04 LTS. The Wayland session will still be available as an option at login. You can read more about that here. The Ubuntu Dock extension has been rebased on the latest upstream master and we’ve added some

Will Cooke
2 February 2018

Will Cooke
1 December 2017

Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: December 1, 2017

Article Desktop

GNOME GNOME Disk Utility If you have snaps installed and open the Disks utility, your snaps appear as loop devices. We found this to be confusing and a bit messy, so we have proposed a fix upstream and this should be merged soon. Theme The community theme topic has been very busy on the hub. Yesterday we

Will Cooke
1 December 2017

Joshua Powers
1 December 2017

Ubuntu Bionic: Netplan

Article Cloud and server

NetplanFor this week’s Bionic test blitz I am looking at Netplan! Netplan enables easily configuring networking on a system via YAML files. Netplan processes the YAML and generates the required configurations for either NetworkManager or systemd-network the system’s renderer.Netplan replaced ifupdown as the default...

Joshua Powers
1 December 2017

Canonical
8 November 2017

Kernel Team Summary: November 7, 2017

Article Cloud and server

October 24 through November 06 Development (18.04) Every 6 months the Ubuntu Kernel Team is tasked to pick the kernel to be used in the next release. This is a difficult thing to do because we don’t definitively know what will be going into the upstream kernel over the next 6 months nor the quality

Canonical
8 November 2017

Stéphane Graber
6 November 2017

LXD Weekly Status #22

Article Cloud and server

Introduction Another pretty quiet week for LXD as we keep working on a number of larger features that aren’t ready to land yet. Now that the Ubuntu 18.04 development release is open for contributions, we’re pushing LXD 2.19, LXC 2.1.1 and LXCFS 2.0.8 there which will then trickle down to our various PPAs, stable Ubuntu

Stéphane Graber
6 November 2017

Canonical
2 November 2017

Ubuntu Foundations Development Summary: November 2, 2017

Article Cloud and server

This newsletter is to provide a status update from the Ubuntu Foundations Team. There will also be highlights provided for any interesting subjects the team may be working on. If you would like to reach the Foundations team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-devel channel on freenode. Highlights Artful Aardvark, 17.10, has...

Canonical
2 November 2017

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