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Canonical
23 June 2020

Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS pre-installed is now available

Article Canonical announcements

The Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition is now available in North America and selected EMEA countries* certified with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS pre-installed to work straight out of the box. This is the first system available on the market with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, released in April 2020, and continues the long-standing partnership with...

Canonical
23 June 2020

Anthony Dillon
22 June 2020

Design and Web team summary – 22nd June 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 My name is Wayne, I’m part of the Brand team that sits within Web & Design. I’ve been at Canonical for almost 2 years now, in those 2 years I

Anthony Dillon
22 June 2020

H Wilkins
19 June 2020

Making the MAAS machine list fast with React

Article Design

We have been transitioning the web interface for MAAS from AngularJS to React. One of the reasons for this is to make the interface faster. The main page with performance issues is the list of machines. This list needs to be fast at displaying a few hundred machines at a bare minimum. So what happens

H Wilkins
19 June 2020

haydenb
17 June 2020

Getting started with CUDA on Ubuntu on WSL 2

Article Ubuntu

At Build 2020 Microsoft announced support for GPU compute on Windows Subsystem for Linux 2. Ubuntu is the leading Linux distribution for WSL and a sponsor of WSLConf. Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, provides enterprise support for Ubuntu on WSL through Ubuntu Advantage. This guide will walk early adopters through...

haydenb
17 June 2020

Kyle Fazzari
17 June 2020

ROS 2 Foxy Fitzroy and its Enhanced Security Monitoring

Article Robotics

We’re pleased to welcome the newest ROS 2 release, Foxy Fitzroy. A long-term support (LTS) release, (supported for three years), Foxy runs on the latest Ubuntu LTS, the also-recently-released Ubuntu 20.04 (supported for five years, or even longer with an ESM subscription). Putting together a distribution like Foxy is a...

Kyle Fazzari
17 June 2020

Rhys Davies
16 June 2020

The Ubuntu Appliance portfolio

Article Internet of Things

We are delighted to share a new initiative – the Ubuntu Appliance portfolio. Together with NextCloud, Mosquitto, Plex, OpenHAB and AdGuard, we have created a new class of Ubuntu derivatives: specialised appliance images that do one thing beautifully. Ubuntu Appliances transform a Raspberry Pi or PC into a secure,...

Rhys Davies
16 June 2020

Tytus Kurek
16 June 2020

Is Ubuntu an enterprise Linux distribution?

Article Cloud and server

Is Ubuntu an enterprise Linux distribution? If you are asking, you are probably wondering if you can use Ubuntu anywhere else other than your workstation or development environment. Perhaps you are wondering whether you can implement Ubuntu in your enterprise, including production environments? If that is the case, I...

Tytus Kurek
16 June 2020

Canonical
15 June 2020

OVHcloud drives flash storage strategy with LXD

Article Ceph

With more than 1.5 million global customers – including Sainsburys and Michelin – OVHcloud is Europe’s largest cloud computing provider, and the third largest web hosting company in the world. It goes without saying that storage is mission critical for an organisation like OVHcloud, but finding a solution that was...

Canonical
15 June 2020

Igor Ljubuncic
12 June 2020

Productivity is but a snap away – useful applications for your everyday needs

Article Desktop

The state of being productive comes in various guises. Sometimes, you want to do more. Sometimes, you want less. It’s been a while since we toured the Snap Store, and we thought you would be interested in a fresh batch of cool, fun and useful applications that can help you perfect your daily digital activities.

Igor Ljubuncic
12 June 2020

Pierre Equoy
10 June 2020

People and processes behind “Ubuntu certified” devices

Article Desktop

While searching for your next GNU/Linux enabled computer, you may have found that some vendors such as Dell, HP and Lenovo sell a selection of desktops and laptops with Ubuntu pre-installed. In fact, Ubuntu is certified on an ever-growing list of hardware. But what does it mean exactly for such a device to be “Ubuntu

Pierre Equoy
10 June 2020

Thibaut Rouffineau
9 June 2020

Ubuntu at the Microsoft European Virtual Open Source Summit

Article Cloud and server

Event overview and main themes On June 16th 2020, the Microsoft European Virtual Open Source Summit will be the occasion to meet and hear from all the communities, entrepreneurs and developers involved in building the future of open source technologies in the cloud. This is an opportunity to explore all the areas where...

Thibaut Rouffineau
9 June 2020

Anthony Dillon
9 June 2020

Design and Web team summary – 9th June 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 👋 My name is Sam, and I am a project manager on the web team. I help run a few of our squads in the web team. The web squad,

Anthony Dillon
9 June 2020

Igor Ljubuncic
5 June 2020

Fabrica – Your self-hosted snap factory

Article Cloud and server

There are many ways one can go about building snaps. You can do it on your local system, by manually running commands in a terminal window. If you have a developer account in the Snap Store, you can use the integrated build functionality to create snaps. You can also use Launchpad, Electron Builder or a

Igor Ljubuncic
5 June 2020

Alex Chalkias
5 June 2020

OSM#9 Hackfest: the highlights

Article Cloud and server

Canonical concluded its participation in the 9th OSM Hackfest with a renewed sense of fellowship with the Open Source MANO (OSM) community and great pride in the collaborative work that enabled an end-to-end mobile network orchestration demo using OSM’s model-driven capabilities to onboard network services. Following...

Alex Chalkias
5 June 2020