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Igor Ljubuncic
19 September 2019

Popular snaps per distro

Article Desktop

From a distance, Linux is one big, confusing ball of passionate users and hardcore technical jargon. But as you zoom in, you can start seeing patterns – and differences. Indeed, the individual and vastly varied choice of a favorite distribution has played a major part in shaping the community conversation in the Linux...

Igor Ljubuncic
19 September 2019

Guest
18 September 2019

Announcing the new IBM LinuxONE III with Ubuntu

Article Cloud and server

This is a guest blog by Kara Todd, Director, Linux, IBM Z and LinuxONE Enterprises today need a highly secure, and flexible system to support their initiatives, and for that system to grow and evolve for tomorrow. The latest LinuxONE system was designed to support mission-critical initiatives and allow enterprises to be...

Guest
18 September 2019

Canonical
18 September 2019

Kubernetes 1.16 available from Canonical

Article Ubuntu

Canonical announces full enterprise support for Kubernetes 1.16, with support covering Charmed Kubernetes, MicroK8s and kubeadm. MicroK8s will be updated with Kubernetes 1.16 enabling users access to the latest upstream release with a single-line command in under 60 seconds. In addition, MicroK8s gets new add-ons with...

Canonical
18 September 2019

Anthony Dillon
17 September 2019

Design and Web team summary – 17 September 2019

Article Design

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 Web is the squad that develop and maintain most of the brochure websites across the Canonical. Takeover templates In order to save some time with our more and

Anthony Dillon
17 September 2019

anaqvi
16 September 2019

Introduction to MicroK8s

Article Cloud and server

Every developer, systems admin and tech enthusiast is interested in learning Kubernetes. Kubernetes is a complex container orchestration tool that can be overwhelming for beginners. Kubernetes has been the buzzword in the tech industry and for good reason. If you’re itching to get started with Kubernetes and not looking...

anaqvi
16 September 2019

Andres Rodriguez
12 September 2019

Hardware discovery and kernel auto-configuration in MAAS

Article Cloud and server

In this blog, we are going to explore how to leverage MAAS for hardware discovery and kernel auto-configuration using tags. In many cases, certain pieces of hardware require extra kernel parameters to be set in order to make use of them. For example, when configuring GPU passthrough we will typically need to configure the GPU

Andres Rodriguez
12 September 2019

Alex Cattle
10 September 2019

Machine Learning Operations (MLOps): Deploy at Scale

Webinar Cloud and server

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning adoption in the enterprise is exploding from Silicon Valley to Wall Street with diverse use cases ranging from the analysis of customer behaviour and purchase cycles to diagnosing medical conditions. Following on from our webinar ‘Getting started with AI’, this webinar will...

Alex Cattle
10 September 2019

Alex Cattle
6 September 2019

Management of snaps in a controlled, enterprise environment

Article Ubuntu

Few enterprises want all their computing devices to be fully exposed to the internet. In an environment of ever-growing security threats, isolating internal networks from the wider internet is not simply best practice, but borderline essential. However, with all the benefits that restricted networks provide, it can pose...

Alex Cattle
6 September 2019

Jeremie Deray
5 September 2019

The teleop_tools arrive in ROS 2 Dashing!

Article Robotics

After exploring some ROS 2 subtleties and implementing some CLI tools we felt were missing, the time has come to get our hands even more dirty. What better way to learn than by doing? C’est en forgeant qu’on devient forgeron Humm, pardon my french, Practice makes perfect To enter the realm of ROS 2 and

Jeremie Deray
5 September 2019

Anthony Dillon
3 September 2019

Design and Web team summary – 03 September 2019

Article Design

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 Web is the squad that develop and maintain most of the brochure websites across the Canonical. Build and release dqlite.io The dqlite.io site has been built and deployed.

Anthony Dillon
3 September 2019

dragan-s
30 August 2019

Building a better TurtleBot3

Article Robotics

TurtleBot3 was released in 2017 and is positioned as a low-cost, open-source robot kit. For new owners of the TurtleBot3, there are various resources online that will assist you with building your brand new TurtleBot3 out of the box. One such example is the official TurtleBot3 instructional video. While it is a great video to

dragan-s
30 August 2019

joemcmanus
29 August 2019

LXD in 4 Easy Steps

Article Cloud and server

I needed to install a clean instance of Bionic to test some code, but I did not want to use a full virtual machine as I was in a hurry. To do this, I used LXD to quickly deploy new Bionic and Xenial instances in minutes. If you are not familiar with LXD, it is

joemcmanus
29 August 2019

Igor Ljubuncic
29 August 2019

A technical comparison between snaps and debs

Article Desktop

How are snaps different from debs? This is a common question that comes up in technical discussions in the Linux community, especially among developers and users who have just embarked on their snap journey and are interested in learning more details. Indeed, the introduction of self-contained application format likes...

Igor Ljubuncic
29 August 2019

Kyle Fazzari
28 August 2019

Canonical joins the ROS 2 Technical Steering Committee

Article Internet of Things

We at Canonical care deeply about robotics. We firmly believe that robots based on Linux are cheaper to develop, more flexible, more secure, and faster to market. One of the contributing factors to this being the case is the Robot Operating System (ROS). ROS is by far the most popular middleware for creating...

Kyle Fazzari
28 August 2019