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Stéphane Graber
14 February 2018

LXD weekly status #34

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Introduction A lot happened this past week. @brauner is making great progress cleaning everything up in liblxc and related projects ahead of the 3.0 release, @freeekanayaka has been sorting out the last few missing bits for LXD clustering and @monstermunchkin has been busy working on our new distrobuilder tool! On top...

Stéphane Graber
14 February 2018

David Britton
13 February 2018

Ubuntu Server development summary – 13 February 2018

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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
13 February 2018

Sarah Dickinson
13 February 2018

Skype discuss easing Linux maintenance with snaps

Article Desktop

Skype is used by hundreds of millions of users globally to make free video and voice calls, send files, video and instant messages. It has been two years since Skype first launched to Linux users on the Electron framework. This brings us to the present day, where the team recently launched their first snap and

Sarah Dickinson
13 February 2018

Kyle Fazzari
11 February 2018

Your first robot: The controller [3/5]

Article Desktop

This is the third blog post in this series about creating your first robot with ROS and Ubuntu Core. In the previous post you were introduced to the Robot Operating System (ROS), and got your robot moving by ROSifying one of the CamJam worksheets. Today we’re going to move beyond the CamJam worksheets, and work

Kyle Fazzari
11 February 2018

Will Cooke
9 February 2018

Ubuntu Desktop weekly update – February 9, 2018

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Here’s the round up from this week: GNOME The default session has now been switched back to use Xorg by default. Wayland is still installed and can be selected from the login screen. GNOME 3.27 has entered Freeze in preparation for the 3.28 release scheduled for March. We’ve landed some changes to udisks2 and GNOME

Will Cooke
9 February 2018

David Callé
9 February 2018

Tutorial: Setup a ZFS storage pool

Article Cloud and server

ZFS is a handy way of pooling disks together into a single filesystem. Whether you want to transparently mirror content across disks to preserve yourself from faulty hardware or unify an array of disks into a single storage unit, it’s a good fit for both personal devices and enterprise stacks. In this short tutorial, you

David Callé
9 February 2018

Stéphane Graber
7 February 2018

LXD weekly status #33

Article Cloud and server

Weekly status for the week of the 29th of January to the 5th of February 2018. Introduction This past week, the entire LXD team was meeting in Brussels to work together for a few days ahead of FOSDEM. During those days, we’ve been looking into our short and long term plans, worked together on our

Stéphane Graber
7 February 2018

David Britton
6 February 2018

Ubuntu Server development summary – 06 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
6 February 2018

Sarah Dickinson
6 February 2018

Building Slack for the Linux community and adopting snaps

Article Desktop

Used by millions around the world, Slack is an enterprise software platform that allows teams and businesses of all sizes to communicate effectively. Slack works seamlessly with other software tools within a single integrated environment, providing an accessible archive of an organisation’s communications, information...

Sarah Dickinson
6 February 2018

elopio
3 February 2018

Snapcraft Summit summary – day 5

Article Desktop

This Snapcraft Summit is coming to an end. We had five days full of hard and fun work, together with many friends from many other projects that are part of our ecosystem. It was amazing to see the kind of collaboration that snapcraft brings to the Linux world. The engineering, advocacy, desktop and design teams

elopio
3 February 2018

Will Cooke
2 February 2018

Ubuntu Desktop weekly update – February 2, 2018

News Desktop

GNOME As you might have already read, we’ve taken the decision to ship Xorg by default in Bionic 18.04 LTS. The Wayland session will still be available as an option at login. You can read more about that here. The Ubuntu Dock extension has been rebased on the latest upstream master and we’ve added some

Will Cooke
2 February 2018

Kyle Fazzari
2 February 2018

Snapcraft Summit summary – day 3

Article Desktop

The third day of the Snapcraft Summit here in Seattle saw all the developers reconvene and really get down to work, and ROSHub came by in the afternoon with their snap-powered robots! Strictly-confined snaps can only access specific areas on disk that are defined by the interfaces they utilize. This works well, but can...

Kyle Fazzari
2 February 2018

David Callé
2 February 2018

Tutorial: Install single-server OpenStack with conjure-up

Tutorials Cloud and server

OpenStack is the de facto open source standard to build private and public clouds. We believe deploying and getting familiar with OpenStack should be an easy task for all developers, that’s why we have built conjure-up, a simple interface to deploy big software with best practices built-in. In this tutorial, you will...

David Callé
2 February 2018

Canonical
1 February 2018

Skype now available as a snap for Linux users

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Skype snap widens availability in the Linux community with easy install and automatic updates London, UK – 1st February 2018 – Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, announces today that Skype is now available as a snap, the universal Linux app packaging format. Available as of today, the release means that Skype can...

Canonical
1 February 2018