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toto
11 March 2020

Tutorials for everyone from everyone

Article Ubuntu

TL:DR The tutorials site was refreshed. Tutorials are written in Discourse. They are then pulled and displayed on different sites: ubuntu.com, snapcraft.io, maas.io and jaas.ai. Contributing to open source tools goes beyond writing code. Some of the best contributions simply explain to others how to use the software...

toto
11 March 2020

joemcmanus
10 March 2020

On boxing, tabletop exercises and threat models

Article Ubuntu

‘Everybody has a plan until they get hit. Then, like a rat, they stop in fear and freeze.’ Mike Tyson At Canonical we have recently performed a series of cyber tabletop exercises (TTX). A TTX is an information security preparedness drill where a cyber incident scenario is played out to improve your tactics, techniques and

joemcmanus
10 March 2020

Alex Cattle
10 March 2020

Interana uses ESM to maintain system security while upgrading its customers to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS across public clouds

Case study Cloud and server

Interana, an analytics software provider, enables users to run advanced big data queries on raw customer data and delivers answers in seconds. Their customers include Microsoft, Comcast and Salesforce. Interana’s leading-edge platform is based on Ubuntu and deployed directly inside customers’ public cloud environments....

Alex Cattle
10 March 2020

Alan Pope
8 March 2020

Safely Backup Google Photos

Article Desktop

With a smart phones in their pocket, most people don’t bother carrying a traditional camera anymore. For most, the single, double or even triple cameras on modern phones are great for making memories. Many Android and some iOS users have chosen to store their photos in the free or paid Google Photos service. In the

Alan Pope
8 March 2020

Ted Kern
6 March 2020

ROS Development with LXD

Article Internet of Things

Linux containers allow for easy isolation of developer environments. If you’re often working with a bunch of different ROS versions, it’s a lot easier to do your work entirely in containers. Getting Started You’ll first need to install LXD using snap. Note Throughout this guide I will be using the hostname to...

Ted Kern
6 March 2020

ROS 2 CI with GitHub Actions

Article Internet of Things

The ROS 2 Tooling Working Group (chaired by AWS RoboMaker) has been hard at work producing a neat set of GitHub Actions for building and testing ROS packages on a variety of different systems. They work great on Ubuntu targets and preliminary support is already present for MacOS and Windows, making them a great option

Ted Kern
6 March 2020

Alex Cattle
6 March 2020

Hosted private cloud infrastructure: a cost analysis

Article Cloud and server

Private cloud infrastructure remains an essential part of every enterprise nowadays. However, due to the increasing number of workloads and data, the overhead of managing bare metal servers, virtual machines and containers can mount up. Although tools like MAAS, OpenStack and Kubernetes help to address this problem,...

Alex Cattle
6 March 2020

Rhys Davies
6 March 2020

The State of Robotics – February 2020

Article Internet of Things

In 2020 we are already seeing the world of robotics hit the ground running. So far this year new and exciting things have been cropping up in every industry. The mainstream media pick up ROS stories and big-name robotics companies are no longer just on the factory floors. Here we talk about MoveIt for ROS

Rhys Davies
6 March 2020

Anthony Dillon
5 March 2020

Design and Web team summary – 5 March 2020

Design Design

This is the final week before the team is all off the Frankfurt for co-located sprinting on some features and products. So, watch this space. This was a fairly busy two weeks for the Web & Design team at Canonical. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work. Web squad Our Web Squad

Anthony Dillon
5 March 2020

Sohini Bianka Roy
5 March 2020

WSLConf: The first conference dedicated to Windows Subsystem for Linux goes virtual

Article Canonical announcements

On March 10th and 11th, WSLConf – a conference dedicated to Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) – will go 100% virtual and be live-streamed for all its participants, worldwide. WSLConf is a community event, sponsored by Canonical. We will have presentations from developers, security professionals, teams from Canonical and...

Sohini Bianka Roy
5 March 2020

alfonsosanchezbeato
3 March 2020

Creating real-time ready systems with ACRN and Ubuntu

Article Internet of Things

Sometimes you really need a deterministic response time in your system. For example, a robotic arm that needs to be at the right place at exactly the right time, and you cannot avoid the need for a hard real-time (RT) operating system. But, that is only a small part of your software, and for the

alfonsosanchezbeato
3 March 2020

Alex Cattle
3 March 2020

Anbox Cloud – An introduction

Article Cloud and server

Anbox Cloud, Canonical’s recently launched platform, delivers Android at scale in the cloud. Leveraging Android as a guest operating system to virtualise mobile workloads on servers while streaming graphical output to clients, Anbox Cloud empowers innovators to create rich digital experiences on various mobile form...

Alex Cattle
3 March 2020

nilayshrugged
3 March 2020

How to launch IoT devices – Part 3: make vs buy decisions

Article Internet of Things

(This blog post is part of a 5 part series, titled “How to launch IoT devices”. It will cover the key choices and concerns when turning bright IoT ideas into a product in the market. This entire series can be found with slides + audio here: How to launch IoT devices.) Part One can be

nilayshrugged
3 March 2020

Eduardo Aguilar Pelaez
2 March 2020

Kubeflow 1.0 launches

Article AI

Kubeflow 1.0 has been released today and Canonical would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the community for their hard work and leadership (link). What is Kubeflow? Kubeflow is an open source artificial intelligence / machine learning (AI/ML) tool that helps improve deployment, portability and management of...

Eduardo Aguilar Pelaez
2 March 2020