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David Callé
2 February 2018

Tutorial: Install single-server OpenStack with conjure-up

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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

Externally exposing a LXD-based Kubernetes service

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This article originally appeared on Rye Terrell’s blog So you’ve conjured up a Kubernetes cluster on top of LXD on your dev box. Cool. You’ve created a deployment, you’ve got a service directing traffic to it, and you can query it from your box. Sweet. Time to demo this to your boss! “Hey boss,”

Canonical
1 February 2018

Kyle Fazzari
1 February 2018

Snapcraft Summit summary – day 2

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The second day of Snapcraft Summits tend to be particularly productive as all the participants get more familiar with each other, and this one is no exception. In addition to developers from CircleCI, Electron, Microsoft, Plex, and Slack, today saw the addition of our friends from ROSHub joining us to hack on their...

Kyle Fazzari
1 February 2018

Alan Pope
1 February 2018

Snapcraft Summit summary – day 1

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The first day of the Snapcraft Summit in Seattle kicked off with a simple round of introductions and each participant voicing their plans for the week. People from Microsoft, Skype, Slack, Electron and CircleCI joined the snap advocacy and Snapcraft teams to crank through their tasks. Snapcraft community superstar Dan...

Alan Pope
1 February 2018

Sarah Dickinson
31 January 2018

Plex joins Snapcraft Summit to advance snap learnings

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Plex is the leading streaming platform for personal media collections, also offering over-the-air Live TV and DVR capabilities, and curated news from over 200 global media partners. It’s the only solution that seamlessly combines your personal collection of TV shows, movies, music, photos, and videos alongside live and...

Sarah Dickinson
31 January 2018

David Britton
30 January 2018

Ubuntu Server development summary – 30 January 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
30 January 2018

David Callé
30 January 2018

Tutorial: Install Ubuntu on a Chromebook

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Chromebooks have gained popularity as relatively inexpensive web-centric laptops. They give access to web-based and native applications through the Chrome store, but what if you want to do more with them? Installing Ubuntu on a Chromebook gives you more choice and lets you turn a web-centric machine into any other...

David Callé
30 January 2018

Canonical
30 January 2018

NTT TechnoCross becomes Canonical Certified Support Partner in Japan

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NTT TechnoCross Corporation has signed a partnership agreement with Canonical to provide strengthened OSS support to its customers in Japan including OpenStack deployments. NTT TechnoCross will provide Japanese support for domestic customers and will be the first contact for customer enquiries and fault isolation and...

Canonical
30 January 2018

Stéphane Graber
29 January 2018

LXD weekly status #32

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The focus of this week has been preparing for our trip to Brussels where we’ll be spending 3 days all working together on LXD before attending and presenting at FOSDEM. @brauner is making good progress on preparing for the liblxc 3.0 release, moving all the various language bindings and tools out of the main tree

Stéphane Graber
29 January 2018

Sergio Schvezov
26 January 2018

A peek at the Snapcraft Summit

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The Snapcraft Summit, taking place in Seattle from January 29th to February 2nd, is a forward-thinking five day software hackathon being attended by major software vendors and snap developers working to move the industry forward with software delivery. In the style introduced by the famous BarCamps of old, the agenda is...

Sergio Schvezov
26 January 2018

Michael Iatrou
26 January 2018

LXD: five easy pieces

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Machine containers, like LXD, proliferate in the datacenters: they provide a native control plane for OpenStack and a lightweight hypervisor for its tenants. LXD optimizes resource allocation and utilization for Kubernetes clusters, modernizes workload management in HPC infrastructure and streamlines lift and shift for...

Michael Iatrou
26 January 2018

Will Cooke
26 January 2018

Bionic Beaver 18.04 LTS to use Xorg by default

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Bionic Beaver, the codename for the next Ubuntu LTS release, is due in April 2018 and will ship with both the traditional Xorg graphics stack as well as the newer Wayland based stack, but Xorg will be the default. 17.10, released in October 2017, ships with the Wayland based graphics server as the default and

Will Cooke
26 January 2018

Christian Reis
24 January 2018

Meltdown, Spectre and Ubuntu: What you need to know

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As details of the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities1 have become clearer a number of statements have been published by the multiple vendors affected; Canonical has issued advisories and updates on fixes and mitigations, the latest of which includes a first round of Spectre mitigations. However, most of these...

Christian Reis
24 January 2018