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Canonical
16 November 2017

Security Team Weekly Summary: November 16, 2017

Article Cloud and server

  The Security Team weekly reports are intended to be very short summaries of the Security Team’s weekly activities. If you would like to reach the Security Team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-hardened channel on FreeNode. Alternatively, you can mail the Ubuntu Hardened mailing list at: [email protected]...

Canonical
16 November 2017


Sarah Dickinson
15 November 2017

Orchestrating architectural installations and live shows with snaps

Article Internet of Things

Dutch manufacturer Visual Productions BV, provides multi-platform software and solid-state hardware lighting control technology for namely the architectural, retail, venue and entertainment lighting industries. Originating from an engineering background, Visual Productions combines creative thinking with the talent of...

Sarah Dickinson
15 November 2017


David Callé
15 November 2017

How to turn your website into a desktop app

Article Desktop

Turning your website into a desktop integrated app is a relatively simple thing to do, but distributing it as such and making it noticeable in app stores is another story. This tutorial will show you how to leverage Electron and snaps to create a desktop web app from scratch and release it on a multi-million

David Callé
15 November 2017


Tom Haddon
15 November 2017

Codetree Collect Info

Article Cloud and server

We recently landed a feature in Codetree that I’m pretty excited about. Codetree is a tool for collecting code from various locations and assembling it in a specific directory structure. It can be used in a standalone fashion, but is also tightly integrated with Mojo, which we use to deploy and manage Juju models. To

Tom Haddon
15 November 2017


Joshua Powers
14 November 2017

Ubuntu Server Development Summary – 14 Nov 2017

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. Spotlight:

Joshua Powers
14 November 2017


Canonical
14 November 2017

Dell Precision Machines Available With Ubuntu Pre-Installed

Article Desktop

Looking for a new PC with Ubuntu pre-installed? We thought we’d run through the latest Dell Precision computers that come pre-installed with Ubuntu. These are systems developed by and for developers, and are available in form factors ranging from sleek ultrabooks to powerful workstations. Here’s a quick runthrough of...

Canonical
14 November 2017


Stéphane Graber
13 November 2017

LXD Weekly Status #23

Article Cloud and server

Introduction The main focus this past week has been on merging a pretty large refactoring branch on top of LXD. This moves a lot of code around to make it more testable and easier to plug in a new database implementation in preparation for some clustering features. We’ve done a few minor improvements like adding

Stéphane Graber
13 November 2017


Canonical
13 November 2017

How to deploy one or more Kubernetes clusters to a single box

Article Cloud and server

This article originally appeared at Rye Terrell’s blog In a recent collaboration between the Linux Foundation and Canonical, we designed an architecture for the CKA exam. In order to keep the exam as affordable as possible, we needed to optimize our resource utilization — ideally, by running multiple Kubernetes clusters...

Canonical
13 November 2017


Will Cooke
10 November 2017

Ubuntu Desktop Weekly, Nov 3rd & 10th: Bionic daily images available

Article Desktop

  The big news this week is the availability of Bionic daily ISOs. As always, we’re beavering away on the desktop: GNOME We’ve started a conversation on the GNOME mailing list to talk about locking down extensions which are part of a “mode” (a set of compulsory extensions and other settings). Ubuntu ships a mode

Will Cooke
10 November 2017


Canonical
9 November 2017

Security Team Weekly Summary: November 9, 2017

Article Cloud and server

The Security Team weekly reports are intended to be very short summaries of the Security Team’s weekly activities. If you would like to reach the Security Team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-hardened channel on FreeNode. Alternatively, you can mail the Ubuntu Hardened mailing list at: [email protected]...

Canonical
9 November 2017


Canonical
8 November 2017

Kernel Team Summary: November 7, 2017

Article Cloud and server

October 24 through November 06 Development (18.04) Every 6 months the Ubuntu Kernel Team is tasked to pick the kernel to be used in the next release. This is a difficult thing to do because we don’t definitively know what will be going into the upstream kernel over the next 6 months nor the quality

Canonical
8 November 2017


Sarah Dickinson
8 November 2017

Discovering snaps with .NET and Microsoft

Article Internet of Things

.NET Core, run by the .NET Foundation and Microsoft,  is a free, cross-platform platform that supports building and running the next generation of web services, microservices and apps. By its very nature, it is an open source platform which supports cross-platform development. Lee Coward and Rakesh Singh at Microsoft...

Sarah Dickinson
8 November 2017


David Britton
7 November 2017

Ubuntu Server Development Summary – 07 Nov 2017

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
7 November 2017


David Callé
7 November 2017

Fresh Snaps from October 2017

Article Desktop

Hot on the heels of the Ubuntu 17.10 release, the snap store has seen some great additions for musicians with MuseScore, for developers with IntelliJ IDEA, and many more! Let’s have a look at our october selection: 1. MuseScore MuseScore MuseScore is the world’s leading free and open-source software for writing music,...

David Callé
7 November 2017