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barry-mcgee
26 April 2019

Formatting our code with Prettier

Article Ubuntu

I’ve become a huge advocate of using Prettier to format front-end code. Let me explain why. For many years, I’ve spent a considerable amount of time squinting at my code editor and trying to decide if the curly brackets at the top of my screen align with the curly brackets at the bottom of my

barry-mcgee
26 April 2019

Sarah Dickinson
26 April 2019

An introduction to AppArmor

Article Cloud and server

Cyber attacks are becoming more sophisticated, attack frequency is on the rise, and the cost of cybercrime damage is projected to reach $6 trillion annually by 2021. Traditional defensive measures such as firewalls and intrusion detection systems that operate at the network perimeter are no longer enough to protect...

Sarah Dickinson
26 April 2019

Eric Jensen
26 April 2019

Ubuntu is the #1 embedded Linux for IoT

Article Internet of Things

The results are in! Eclipse.org recently published their 2019 IoT Developer Survey. Ubuntu is again the top choice for embedded & IoT, with our cousins Raspbian and Debian taking 2nd and 3rd respectively. The numbers fall off pretty steeply after that. 😉 For those who create embedded products or solutions, the message...

Eric Jensen
26 April 2019

Katie Elston
24 April 2019

Visit Canonical at Dell Technologies World

Article Cloud and server

Canonical and Dell are working together to transform your business from the desktop to cloud to edge. Visit us at Dell Technologies World 2019 from Monday, 29 April to Wednesday, 1 May in booth #495 to talk with our experts about how you can innovate faster with Canonical and Dell, based on predictability, savings and

Katie Elston
24 April 2019

Thibaut Rouffineau
24 April 2019

Canonical at Open Infrastructure Summit -Denver

Article Cloud and server

Open Infrastructure Summit is coming to Denver from April 29th to May 1st, 2019. Will you be there? We sure will! Come and visit us in Booth B1! Canonical experts will be at the event ready to answer your questions and walk you through our booth demos. Just to name a few: Open Infrastructure developers

Thibaut Rouffineau
24 April 2019

Canonical
19 April 2019

Announcing OpenJDK 11 packages in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

open source Canonical announcements

OpenJDK 11 is the default JRE/JDK for 18.04 LTS and is covered under LTS upstream security support. OpenJDK 11 will be the default package for the upcoming 19.04 release.

Canonical
19 April 2019

Canonical
18 April 2019

Open infrastructure, developer desktop and IoT are the focus for Ubuntu 19.04

Article Cloud and server

18th April, 2019: Canonical today announced the release of Ubuntu 19.04, focused on open infrastructure deployments, the developer desktop, IoT, and cloud to edge software distribution. “The open-source-first on Ubuntu movement in telco, finance, and media has spread to other sectors. From the public cloud to the...

Canonical
18 April 2019

Chad Smith
17 April 2019

Ubuntu Server development summary – 16 April 2019

Article Cloud and server

Hello Ubuntu Server The purpose of this communication is to provide a status update and highlights for any interesting subjects from the Ubuntu Server Team. If you would like to reach the server team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-server channel on Freenode. Alternatively, you can sign up and use the Ubuntu Server Team

Chad Smith
17 April 2019

Eric Jensen
16 April 2019

Industrial & Embedded Linux: Looking Ahead

Article Internet of Things

I recently returned from an extended visit to Germany, where my colleagues and I kept busy attending conferences, visiting customers and partners. We travelled around the country, talking to many, many people at dozens of companies about embedded Linux. We confirmed existing trend data, and gained exciting new insights!...

Eric Jensen
16 April 2019

Canonical
11 April 2019

On the Case – High Resource Usage

Article Cloud and server

A customer recently submitted a case that Pedro Principeza, a Canonical Support Engineer, was able to solve using an interesting technique. Principeza was contacted to help pinpoint the processes that were generating a high rate of I/O operations, affecting server performance. Implementing a trace to pinpoint workload...

Canonical
11 April 2019

Igor Ljubuncic
11 April 2019

Make compelling videos with free software: Director’s Cut

Article Desktop

Creating videos is easy. Creating great videos, not so much. A good production starts with an idea, but it also requires talent, time and tools. We cannot do much about the first two, but we sure can give you some nice ideas on the tools you want to make snappy videos. Typically, a video production

Igor Ljubuncic
11 April 2019

Sarah Dickinson
11 April 2019

Why the Visual Studio Code team launched a snap

Article Desktop

Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code is a popular free code editor with built-in support for debugging, task running, and version control. While available for Linux via tarball, rpm, and debian package options, the Visual Studio Code team had been seeking new options that would support seamless upgrades to match their rapid...

Sarah Dickinson
11 April 2019

Kyle Fazzari
9 April 2019

Speed up your ROS snap builds

Article Internet of Things

A while back I wrote a post about distributing a ROS system among multiple snaps. If you want to enable some sort of add-on story, you need to have multiple snaps, and that remains the way to do it today with ROS. That approach works, but I’ll be the first to admit that it’s not

Kyle Fazzari
9 April 2019

Sarah Dickinson
9 April 2019

Optimising IoT bandwidth with delta updates

Article Internet of Things

As connected devices proliferate in the Internet of Things (IoT), companies need an efficient over-the-air (OTA) update mechanism for remotely delivering new software, features, firmware updates and security enhancements to potentially huge numbers of geographically dispersed embedded devices. Pushing software updates...

Sarah Dickinson
9 April 2019