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Canonical
24 January 2018

Kernel team summary – 24 January 2018

Article Cloud and server

January 09 through January 23 The Kernel Team is completely focused on addressing any Spectre and Meltdown issues as they arise. A secure Ubuntu is our top priority. No new Livepatches are being produced and our regular SRU cycles are suspended while we address Spectre and Meltdown. Spectre mitigation kernels are...

Canonical
24 January 2018


Stéphane Graber
24 January 2018

LXD weekly status #31

Article Cloud and server

Introduction Nothing too major happened this past week. Part of the time was at an internal planning meeting and the rest have been working on clustering, preparation for 3.0 and fixing a variety of bugs. Next week the entire LXD team will be traveling to Brussels to attend a small team sprint followed by FOSDEM!

Stéphane Graber
24 January 2018


Joshua Powers
23 January 2018

Ubuntu Server development summary – 23 January 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.

Joshua Powers
23 January 2018


Will Cooke
22 January 2018

Ubuntu Desktop weekly update – 22 January 2018

News Desktop

Here’s an update on what we’ve been working on over the last couple of weeks: GNOME We’ve been working on a patch for udisks to hide snaps from applications such as GNOME’s Disks.  This will hide all loop devices, including installed snaps, from disk management utilities making it less confusing and less cluttered....

Will Cooke
22 January 2018


Kyle Fazzari
21 January 2018

Your first robot: Introduction to the Robot Operating System [2/5]

Article Desktop

This is the second blog post in this series about creating your first robot with ROS and Ubuntu Core. In the previous post we walked through all the hardware necessary to follow this series, and introduced Ubuntu Core, the operating system for IoT devices. We installed it on our Raspberry Pi, and used it to

Kyle Fazzari
21 January 2018


David Callé
19 January 2018

Tutorial: Continuous delivery of snaps with Circle CI

Tutorials Desktop

Bullet-proof continuous delivery of software is crucial to the health of your community, more than a way to run manual tests, it also enables your early adopters to test code and give feedback on it as soon as it lands. You may be already using build.snapcraft.io to do so for snaps, but in some cases,

David Callé
19 January 2018


Canonical
18 January 2018

Canonical brings Slack to the snap ecosystem

News Canonical announcements

The digital workspace will now be available to all Linux users London, UK – 18th January 2018 – Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, today announced the first iteration of Slack as a snap, bringing collaboration to open source users. Slack is an enterprise software platform that allows teams and businesses of all sizes...

Canonical
18 January 2018


Dustin Kirkland
17 January 2018

Spectre mitigation updates available for testing in Ubuntu Proposed

Article Cloud and server

Canonical holds Ubuntu to the highest standards of security and quality.  This week we published candidate Ubuntu kernels providing mitigation for CVE-2017-5715 and CVE-2017-5753 (ie, Spectre / Variants 1 & 2) to their respective -proposed pockets for Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful), 16.04 LTS (Xenial), and 14.04 LTS (Trusty)....

Dustin Kirkland
17 January 2018


Stéphane Graber
16 January 2018

LXD weekly status #30

Article Cloud and server

  Introduction The main highlight for this week was the inclusion of the new proxy device in LXD, thanks to the hard work of some University of Texas students! The rest of the time was spent fixing a number of bugs, working on various bits of kernel work, getting the upcoming clustering work to go

Stéphane Graber
16 January 2018


Kevin W Monroe
16 January 2018

Monitor your Kubernetes Cluster

Article Cloud and server

This article originally appeared on Kevin Monroe’s blog Keeping an eye on logs and metrics is a necessary evil for cluster admins. The benefits are clear: metrics help you set reasonable performance goals, while log analysis can uncover issues that impact your workloads. The hard part, however, is getting a slew of...

Kevin W Monroe
16 January 2018


Dean Henrichsmeyer
12 January 2018

Meltdown and Spectre Status Update

Article Canonical announcements

On Tuesday, January 9, 2018 we released Ubuntu kernel updates for mitigation of CVE-2017-5754 (aka Meltdown / Variant 3) for the x86-64 architecture. Releases were made for the following supported Ubuntu series: 12.04 ESM Precise (kernel v3.2) 14.04 LTS Trusty (kernel v3.13) 16.04 LTS Xenial (kernel v4.4) 17.10 Artful...

Dean Henrichsmeyer
12 January 2018


David Britton
9 January 2018

Ubuntu Server development summary – 9 January 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
9 January 2018


Stéphane Graber
8 January 2018

LXD weekly status #29

Article Cloud and server

Introduction And we’re back from the holidays! This “weekly” summary is covering everything that happened the past 3 weeks. The big highlight was the release of LXD 2.21 on the 19th of December. During the holidays, we merged quite a number of bugfixes and smaller features in LXC and LXD with the bigger feature...

Stéphane Graber
8 January 2018


Canonical
5 January 2018

Announcing the Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition 9370 with Ubuntu

Article Desktop

We’re excited to see Dell announce the availability of the 7th gen XPS 13 Developer Edition (9370) which comes preloaded with Ubuntu. Canonical have been part of Dell’s Project Sputnik project since Day 1, and five years later we are delighted to see it continue. In fact, our VP of Product Dustin Kirkland was one

Canonical
5 January 2018