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Alan Pope
16 May 2018

Fresh Snaps from April 2018

Article Desktop

In case you missed it, here are some of the snaps we featured during April 2018. Here you’ll find snaps to enhance your productivity, tools for creatives, IDEs for developers and games for the weekend. You can stay up to date with our editorial picks by following @snapcraftio on Twitter where we share three new

Alan Pope
16 May 2018

Joshua Powers
15 May 2018

Ubuntu Server development summary – 15 May 2018

Article Cloud and 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 mailing list. cloud-init

Joshua Powers
15 May 2018

Canonical
15 May 2018

Trust and security in the Snap Store

Article Desktop

Last Friday (11 May 2018) we learned that a snap was mining cryptocurrency in the background while the application was running. The practical implication of that is the overuse of local resources on a user’s system, well beyond what a typical application would use, consuming more energy than would be expected. The net...

Canonical
15 May 2018

Canonical
11 May 2018

OpenStack Summit Vancouver 2018

Article Cloud and server

Event Details Date: May 21-24 Location: Vancouver, BC Venue: Vancouver Convention Centre East Booth: B7 Event Link: https://www.openstack.org/summit/vancouver-2018 Event Background OpenStack Summit is the leading event in Open Infrastructure, bringing together the builders and operators for sessions and workshops on...

Canonical
11 May 2018

Joshua Powers
8 May 2018

Ubuntu Server development summary – 08 May 2018

Article Cloud and 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 mailing list. cloud-init

Joshua Powers
8 May 2018

Guest
8 May 2018

An introduction to Zenkit – now available as a snap

Article Desktop

This is a guest blog written by Siobhan O’Rorke of Zenkit. In October 2016, Zenkit was released as an app designed to help you ‘organise anything’, enabling companies to digitise all of their business processes in a single app. It’s innovative approach to presenting data has since garnered worldwide attention, and high...

Guest
8 May 2018

Michael Iatrou
3 May 2018

LXD Clusters: A Primer

Article Cloud and server

Since its inception, LXD has been striving to offer a fresh and intuitive user experience for machine containers. LXD instances can be managed over the network through a REST API and a single command line tool. For large scale LXD deployments, OpenStack has been the standard approach: using Nova LXD, lightweight...

Michael Iatrou
3 May 2018

Canonical
2 May 2018

Introducing developer notifications for snap security updates

Article Desktop

For some time, we’ve wanted a mechanism to alert snap publishers to security updates which affect their snaps. All the pieces have come together and we are now sending alerts via email. Stated more precisely, publishers who use ‘stage-packages’ in their snapcraft.yaml will now be alerted when Ubuntu Security Notices...

Canonical
2 May 2018

Will Cooke
27 April 2018

Breeze through Ubuntu Desktop 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver

News Desktop

The Bionic Beaver, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS is here! It’s been a busy six months for the desktop team, and indeed for everyone working on Ubuntu. We’ve been working on making sure that your upgrade from previous releases is smooth and trouble free, tracking down bugs to make 18.04 LTS stable and reliable, and adding some

Will Cooke
27 April 2018

Breeze through Ubuntu Desktop 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver

Desktop Desktop

The Bionic Beaver, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS is here! It’s been a busy six months for the desktop team, and indeed for everyone working on Ubuntu. We’ve been working on making sure that your upgrade from previous releases is smooth and trouble free, tracking down bugs to make 18.04 LTS stable and reliable, and adding some

Will Cooke
27 April 2018

Canonical
27 April 2018

What’s new in Ubuntu 18.04 and OpenStack Queens

Article Cloud and server

Canonical have recently released 18.04 LTS to continue Ubuntu’s positioning as a reference cloud for digital transformation workloads. Ubuntu is at the heart of the world’s largest OpenStack clouds, both public and private, in key sectors such as finance, media, retail and telecommunications. Join our upcoming webinar...

Canonical
27 April 2018

Canonical
26 April 2018

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS optimised for security, multi-cloud, containers & AI

News Canonical announcements

26th April 2018, London, UK: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS – the newest version of the most widely used Linux for workstations, cloud and IoT, is now available. “Multi-cloud operations are the new normal” said Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical and founder of Ubuntu. “Boot-time and performance-optimised images of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS...

Canonical
26 April 2018

Sarah Dickinson
24 April 2018

Ora as a snap: ensuring users are benefiting from the latest version

Article Desktop

Ora is a user-friendly task management service with integrated time-tracking, reports, list view, git integrations and many other features. Often referred to by users as ‘the sweet spot between Trello and Jira’, Ora provides almost a complete match of Jira’s feature set but in a new and more accessible way. Last month,...

Sarah Dickinson
24 April 2018

Stéphane Graber
24 April 2018

LXD weekly status #44

Article Cloud and server

Introduction Another week of bugfixes for us as more and more people update to the 3.0 releases! Quite a bit of work went into improving the handling of the two database in LXD 3.0, making it easier for us to debug issues and provide fixes to our users when something goes wrong. Work is also

Stéphane Graber
24 April 2018