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Guest
9 March 2018

An intro to ONLYOFFICE – now available as a snap

Article Desktop

This is a guest blog written by Kseniya Fedoruk of ONLYOFFICE. Two years ago ONLYOFFICE developers released a desktop office suite that combined viewers and editors for text documents, spreadsheets and presentations. Last week ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors was released as a snap – the universal Linux packaging format. This...

Guest
9 March 2018


Canonical
7 March 2018

Popular programming language, Kotlin, launches as a snap for Linux

News Canonical announcements

We are delighted to announce that the latest addition to the snap ecosystem, launching today, is Kotlin – the pragmatic programming language for JVM, Android and browser crafted by JetBrains. Being a general-purpose language, Kotlin works everywhere where Java works from server-side applications, mobile applications...

Canonical
7 March 2018


Canonical
6 March 2018

MAAS for the home

Article Cloud and server

This article originally appeared on Chris Sanders’ blog MAAS is designed to run in a data center where it expects to have control of DNS and DHCP. The use of an external DHCP server is listed as ‘may work but not supported’ in the MAAS documentation. This guide will describe how I configured MAAS to

Canonical
6 March 2018


Stéphane Graber
5 March 2018

LXD weekly status #37

Article Cloud and server

Introduction So this past week was rather intense, in a nutshell, we’ve: Merged LXD clustering support Split python3-lxc, lua-lxc and lxc-templates out of the LXC codebase Moved libpam-cgfs from lxcfs to lxc Released 3.0.0 beta1 of python3-lxc and lxc-templates Released 3.0.0 beta1 of lxcfs Released 3.0.0 beta1 of lxc...

Stéphane Graber
5 March 2018


Canonical
27 February 2018

Kernel Team summary: February 27, 2018

Article Cloud and server

Development (18.04) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BionicBeaver/ReleaseSchedule On the road to 18.04 we have a 4.15 based kernel in the Bionic repository. Important upcoming dates: 16.04.4 Point Release – Mar 1 (~1 week away) Feature Freeze – Mar 1 (~1 week away) Beta 1 – Mar 8 (~2 weeks away) Final Beta – Apr 5 (~6 weeks...

Canonical
27 February 2018


David Britton
27 February 2018

Ubuntu Server development summary – 27 February 2018

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

David Britton
27 February 2018


David Lawson
27 February 2018

Charming Discourse with the reactive framework

Article Cloud and server

Recently the Canonical IS department was asked to deploy the Discourse forum software for a revamp of the Ubuntu Community site at https://community.ubuntu.org. Discourse is a modernization of classic forum/bulletin board software packages and is something IS has had an interest in for some time, so I was happy to help...

David Lawson
27 February 2018


Stéphane Graber
26 February 2018

LXD weekly status #36

Article Cloud and server

Introduction This past week we’ve been working very hard to land all those last few bits ahead of us tagging a number of 3.0.0.beta1 releases of all our repositories. We’re now waiting for a few last bits to land, including LXD clustering and some reshuffling of templates, bindings and tools in LXC. The current plan

Stéphane Graber
26 February 2018


dannf
26 February 2018

Deploying Ubuntu OpenStack to ARM64 servers

Article Canonical announcements

At Canonical, we’ve been doing work to make sure Ubuntu OpenStack deploys on ARM servers as easily as on x86. Whether you have Qualcomm 2400 REP boards, Cavium ThunderX boards, HiSilicon D05 boards, or other Ubuntu  Certified server hardware, you can go from bare metal to a working OpenStack in minutes! The following...

dannf
26 February 2018


Will Cooke
23 February 2018

Ubuntu Desktop weekly update – February 23, 2018

News Desktop

GNOME We’ve been working on a GNOME Online Accounts plugin for Ubuntu One. This will allow you to manage your U1 credentials and share them with services which need them, for example Canonical LivePatch. A MR is being proposed upstream. A bug has been fixed which caused some high contrast icons to be missing in

Will Cooke
23 February 2018


Canonical
21 February 2018

Canonical announces Ubuntu Core across Rigado’s IoT gateways

News Canonical announcements

Rigado customers will benefit from open source, cost-effective, secure software in their commercial IoT deployments London, UK –  21st February 2018 – Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, today announced that Ubuntu Core will be deployed across Rigado’s Edge Connectivity gateway solutions, further establishing Ubuntu...

Canonical
21 February 2018


Stéphane Graber
20 February 2018

LXD Weekly Status #35

Article Cloud and server

Introduction This past week we’ve been focusing on a number of open pull requests, getting closer to merging improvements to our storage volume handling, unix char/block devices handling and the massive clustering branch that’s been cooking for a while. We’re hoping to see most of those land at some point this coming...

Stéphane Graber
20 February 2018


Sarah Dickinson
16 February 2018

Snapcraft through the eyes of its biggest community contributor

Article Desktop

If you’ve spent any time in the Snapcraft forum, it’s quite likely you’ve come across Dani Llewellyn – a keen community advocate or self-proclaimed Snapcrafter. Dani has always had a passion for computing and is completely self-taught. Outside of the community, Dani is a freelance WordPress developer. After getting into...

Sarah Dickinson
16 February 2018


Canonical
15 February 2018

Storage Made Easy adds Charm to Canonical’s Juju ecosystem

Article Canonical announcements

Storage Made Easy (SME) today announced the availability of the Storage Made Easy™ Enterprise File Fabric™ charm through Canonical’s Juju charm store. The store provides access to a wide range of best practice solutions which can be deployed to public clouds such as AWS, Google Cloud and Azure as well as private clouds such as

Canonical
15 February 2018