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anastasiavalti
5 November 2020

Open Infrastructure Summit 2020: Highlights from Canonical’s first digital OIS

Article Ubuntu

Another Open Infrastructure Summit just passed, and yet this one was like no other OIS past. Head-sponsoring the first ever virtual OIS was an interesting experience to say the least, with more than 10,000 community members worldwide hoping on the hand-built OIS platform to see what’s new in the open infrastructure...

anastasiavalti
5 November 2020


Rui Vasconcelos
4 November 2020

Deploying Kubeflow everywhere: desktop, edge, and IoT devices

Article AI

Kubeflow, the ML toolkit on K8s, now fits on your desktop and edge devices! 🚀 Data science workflows on Kubernetes Kubeflow provides the cloud-native interface between Kubernetes and data science tools: libraries, frameworks, pipelines, and notebooks. > Read more about what is Kubeflow Cloud-native MLOps toolkit gets...

Rui Vasconcelos
4 November 2020


Andreea Munteanu
4 November 2020

Ubuntu Groovy Gorilla on Raspberry Pi

Article People and culture

On the 22nd of October, the 20.10 release was launched, featuring an Ubuntu Desktop image optimised for the Raspberry Pi.  It brings together Ubuntu and Raspberry Pi for educators, inventors and entrepreneurs, bringing the world’s most used open-source desktop to the world’s most accessible hardware. Getting started on...

Andreea Munteanu
4 November 2020


Tytus Kurek
4 November 2020

OpenStack Charms 20.10 – Victoria, OVN, CNTT and more

Article Cloud and server

Canonical is proud to announce the availability of OpenStack Charms 20.10. This new release introduces a range of exciting features and several improvements which enhance Charmed OpenStack. OpenStack Victoria OpenStack Charms 20.10 brings OpenStack Victoria on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (via Cloud Archive) and Ubuntu 20.10 with...

Tytus Kurek
4 November 2020


Lyubomir Popov
3 November 2020

Accessibility audit of Vanilla framework

Article Design

The team behind the Vanilla Framework has a background in development, UX and Visual Design. We all care about accessibility, but none of us is an accessibility expert. We were interested in evaluating how well the framework complies with accessibility standards. We decided to start with an internal audit, fix any...

Lyubomir Popov
3 November 2020


Canonical
2 November 2020

How Kubernetes is transforming the industrial edge

Article Internet of Things

According to leading independent researchers teknowlogy | PAC, open source platforms – and Kubernetes in particular – are central to the future of digital factories.  The PAC RADAR report offers a detailed market analysis of industrial digitalisation trends, and it predicts that Kubernetes-based platforms that bring...

Canonical
2 November 2020


sidfaber
2 November 2020

ROS 2 and Kubernetes Basics

Article Cloud and server

Construct a prototype ROS 2 system distributed across multiple computers using Kubernetes. Our goal is not only to provide you with a working configuration, but also to help you understand why it succeeds and overcome future design challenges.

sidfaber
2 November 2020


Rhys Davies
2 November 2020

Raspberry Pi 400 with Ubuntu support

Article Desktop

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has a new product — the Raspberry Pi 400. The flagship Raspberry Pi 4 was released in June 2019. Since, they added an 8GB model, brought out the Compute Module 4, we certified all Raspberry Pis since Raspberry Pi 2 and we worked together to make the full Ubuntu Desktop ‘just

Rhys Davies
2 November 2020


Ian Johnson
30 October 2020

Introducing etrace – a multi-purpose application profiling tool

Article Desktop

These days, the internal workings of Linux applications involve many different moving parts. Sometimes, it can be rather difficult to debug them when things go wrong or run slower than expected. Tracing an application’s execution is one way of understanding potential issues without diving into the source code. To this...

Ian Johnson
30 October 2020


haydenb
29 October 2020

New installation options coming for Ubuntu on WSL

Article Desktop

The experience of installing Ubuntu on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) just keeps getting better. Beginning in Windows 10 Insiders Preview build 20246, released today by Microsoft, users can enable a complete WSL experience with simply: This will enable WSL 2, download and install the latest WSL 2 Linux kernel, and...

haydenb
29 October 2020


Rui Vasconcelos
28 October 2020

Kubeflow operators: lifecycle management for data science

Article AI

Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, releases Charmed Kubeflow, a set of charm operators to deliver the 20+ applications that make up the latest version of Kubeflow, for easy consumption anywhere, from workstations to on-prem, public cloud, and edge. > Visit Charmed-kubeflow.io to learn more. Kubeflow, the ML toolkit on...

Rui Vasconcelos
28 October 2020


Anthony Dillon
28 October 2020

Design and Web team summary – 28th October 2020

Design Design

The web team here at Canonical run two-week iterations. This iteration was slightly different as we began a new cycle. A cycle represents six months of work. Therefore, we spent the first-week planning and scheduling the cycles goals. Therefore, the following highlights of our completed work from the previous week. Meet...

Anthony Dillon
28 October 2020


Igor Ljubuncic
27 October 2020

Snap speed improvements with new compression algorithm!

Article Desktop

Security and performance are often mutually exclusive concepts. A great user experience is one that manages to blend the two in a way that does not compromise on robust, solid foundations of security on one hand, and a fast, responsive software interaction on the other. Snaps are self-contained applications, with...

Igor Ljubuncic
27 October 2020


Rhys Davies
22 October 2020

Build a Raspberry Pi Desktop with an Ubuntu heart

Article Desktop

On the 22nd October 2020, Canonical released an Ubuntu Desktop image optimised for the Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi Foundation’s 4GB and 8GB boards work out of the box with everything users expect from an Ubuntu Desktop. It is our honour to contribute an optimised Ubuntu Desktop image to the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s...

Rhys Davies
22 October 2020