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Adi Singh
7 August 2020

The State of Robotics – July 2020

Article Robotics

We know a lot of you are on vacation so we’ll keep this month’s State of Robotics edition short and sweet. Try out the Hello World of ROS Looking for an easy way to get familiar with ROS 2? We recently published a few helpers on how to simulate robots with turtlesim to help our

Adi Singh
7 August 2020

Canonical
6 August 2020

Infographic: Ubuntu from 2004 to 20.04 LTS

Article Canonical announcements

Today, the first point release of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS went live! To celebrate, we wanted to share how Ubuntu has evolved since the first release in 2004 to where we are today with 20.04. Thanks to those in the community and our users for your contributions and joining us on this journey. Upgrade to Ubuntu

Canonical
6 August 2020

Rhys Davies
6 August 2020

Set up Collabora Online on the Nextcloud Ubuntu Appliance

Article Internet of Things

Alongside five popular software projects, we recently launched a new initiative called Ubuntu Appliances. A portfolio of software that allows users to turn a Raspberry Pi or an Intel NUC into a secure, self-hosted device. The initial launch included the Nextcloud Ubuntu Appliance. An application that enables you to host...

Rhys Davies
6 August 2020

Anthony Dillon
4 August 2020

Design and Web team summary – 4th August 2020

Article Design

The web team here at Canonical run two week iterations. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Meet the team Hi everyone! Jeff Pihach I’m the Canadian 🇨🇦 on the Web Team here at Canonical. I joined Canonical as a software engineer around 8 years ago and since then

Anthony Dillon
4 August 2020

liam zheng
4 August 2020

Advantech releases EPC-C301 for machine vision applications with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Article Internet of Things

Advantech, a leading global provider of intelligent IoT systems and embedded platforms, is pleased to announce EPC-C301, a compact fanless box PC powered by 8th Gen. Intel® Core™ processor. This system features diverse domain-focused I/O and can operate in broad temperature ranges. EPC-C301 integrates Intel® and...

liam zheng
4 August 2020

Alex Chalkias
31 July 2020

Charmed OSM Release EIGHT available from Canonical

Article Canonical announcements

Canonical is proud to announce the general availability of OSM release EIGHT images in it’s Charmed OSM distribution. As of Release SEVEN, OSM is able to orchestrate containerised network functions (CNFs) leveraging Kubernetes as the underlying infrastructure for next-generation 5G services. Release EIGHT follows the...

Alex Chalkias
31 July 2020

Alex Murray
29 July 2020

Mitigating BootHole – ‘There’s a hole in the boot’ – CVE-2020-10713 and related vulnerabilities

Article Cloud and server

Responsible disclosure and coordinated response as a benefit to all Today we released USN-4432-1 announcing updates for a series of vulnerabilities termed BootHole / ‘There’s a hole in the boot’ in GRUB2 (GRand Unified Bootloader version 2) that could allow an attacker to subvert UEFI Secure Boot. The original...

Alex Murray
29 July 2020

anastasiavalti
28 July 2020

Canonical at KubeCon Europe Virtual 2020

Events Kubernetes

Book a meeting Date: August 17-20Location: Everywhere – this year’s KubeCon is virtual! Booth: Canonical This year has been an adventurous one to say the least… but that should get in the way of the community getting together, exchanging ideas, and keeping up with what’s new in the sphere of Kubernetes. In fact, it’s all

anastasiavalti
28 July 2020

sidfaber
24 July 2020

Simulate the TurtleBot3

Article Robotics

Interested in getting started in robotics? There’s no need to purchase expensive hardware before you try some things out: simulate a TurtleBot3 instead! The simulator is complete with LIDAR, a camera, a gyro and many other sensors and actuators. You can also see this installation in action at the Ubuntu Robotics YouTube...

sidfaber
24 July 2020

Igor Ljubuncic
23 July 2020

Complex problems, clever solutions – unique containers and virtualization snaps

Article Desktop

Snaps come in many shapes and forms: security tools, productivity apps, games, handy utilities, video editing software, and more. Often, most snap package a single application. But snaps can also include services, databases, as well as multiple binaries. How far can this concept scale, you ask? Quite far. There are also...

Igor Ljubuncic
23 July 2020

Robin Winslow
20 July 2020

Design and Web team summary – 20th July 2020

Article Design

The web team here at Canonical run two week iterations. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Meet the team I am from a small island of Colombia in the Caribbean although I grew up in Barcelona, where I went to University to study Industrial Design Engineering. After my

Robin Winslow
20 July 2020

anastasiavalti
20 July 2020

What can you do with MicroK8s?

Article Kubernetes

MicroK8s was first released in late 2018 and has seen significant adoption rates from developers and enterprises alike ever since. Taking increasing demand and curiosity around the topic, we have already given an introduction to MicroK8s as well as covered how to deploy MicroK8s locally in previous blog posts. This...

anastasiavalti
20 July 2020

cmoullec
20 July 2020

Employee spotlight: Alice Cambridge, Inside Sales Representative

Article People and culture

Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu, but who are the people behind Canonical? This blog will be the first in a series getting to know some of the different employees that make up our company. We will be talking to people across roles and departments, starting with Alice Cambridge. Alice joined Canonical as a new

cmoullec
20 July 2020

cmoullec
17 July 2020

Best practices for an effective remote team in the world of cloud delivery

Article Cloud and server

Just like countless other business functions, cloud delivery has now shifted entirely to remote working for now and perhaps longer term. Canonical has been a remote-first company for some time, so we thought we’d take this opportunity to share some of the best practices we’ve learned along the way. Communication...

cmoullec
17 July 2020