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David Britton
27 September 2017

Ubuntu Server Development Summary – 26 Sep 2017

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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
27 September 2017

Konstantinos Tsakalozos
27 September 2017

Patch CDK #1: Build & Release

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This article originally appeared on Konstantin’s blog Happens all the time. You often come across a super cool open source project you would gladly contribute but setting up the development environment and learning to patch and release your fixes puts you off. The Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes (CDK) is not an...

Konstantinos Tsakalozos
27 September 2017

Canonical
26 September 2017

Four steps to mobilising legacy OpenStack and escaping StuckStack

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According to figures from the OpenStack Foundation, just 20 per cent of users are using the latest version of the software. Companies that fall to far behind updates risk becoming stuck on an older version of OpenStack, leaving themselves in danger of higher costs, diminishing agility and reduced security. We call this...

Canonical
26 September 2017

Stéphane Graber
25 September 2017

LXD Weekly Status #16

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This originally appeared at LinuxContainers Weekly status for the week of the 18th to the 24th of September 2017. Introduction The main highlight of this week was the release of LXD 2.18. We’ve otherwise been busy tracking down and fixing a number of issues, extended the user-agent string that LXD uses when talking to...

Stéphane Graber
25 September 2017

Guest
25 September 2017

UbuCon Europe 2017

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This is a guest post by Marius Quabeck. I’ve been to many Ubuntu related events before, but what surprises me every time about UbuCons is the outstanding work by the community organising these events. Earlier this month, I was in Paris for UbuCon Europe 2017. I had quite high expectations about the event/location and the

Guest
25 September 2017

Tim Van Steenburgh
22 September 2017

Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes: Dev Summary (Sept 22 2017)

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This article originally appeared on Tim Van Steenburgh’s blog September 15th concluded our most recent development sprint on the Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes (CDK). Here are some highlights: Canal Bundle Our new Canal bundle is published! If you need network policy support in your cluster, try it out: juju...

Tim Van Steenburgh
22 September 2017

Will Cooke
22 September 2017

Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: September 22, 2017

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We’re less than a week away from Final Beta! It seems to have come round very quickly this cycle. Next week we’re at the Ubuntu Rally in New York City where we will be putting the finishing touches to the beta. In the meantime, here’s a quick rundown on what happened this week: GNOME The

Will Cooke
22 September 2017

Canonical
21 September 2017

Microsoft and Canonical Increase Velocity with Azure Tailored Kernel

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Ubuntu has long been a popular choice for Linux instances on Azure. Our ongoing partnership with Microsoft has brought forth great results, such as the support of the latest Azure features, Ubuntu underlying SQL Server instances, bash on Windows, Ubuntu containers with Hyper-V Isolation on Windows 10 and Windows...

Canonical
21 September 2017

Kubernetes Snaps: The Quick Version

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This article originally appeared on George Kraft’s blog When we built the Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes (CDK), one of our goals was to provide snap packages for the various Kubernetes clients and services: kubectl, kube-apiserver, kubelet, etc. While we mainly built the snaps for use in CDK, they are freely...

Canonical
21 September 2017

Security Team Weekly Summary: September 21, 2017

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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
21 September 2017

Canonical
20 September 2017

Kernel Team Summary – September 20, 2017

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September 13 through September 18 Development (Artful / 17.10) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtfulAardvark/ReleaseSchedule Important upcoming dates: Final Beta – Sept 28 (~1 week away) Kernel Freeze – Oct 5 (~2 weeks away) Final Freeze – Oct 12 (~3 weeks away) Ubuntu 17.10 – Oct 19 (~4 weeks away) We intend to target a 4.13...

Canonical
20 September 2017

Joshua Powers
20 September 2017

Mining Ethereum on Ubuntu with a GTX 1070

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EthereumEthereum has appeared more and more in the news and rightfully so. Ethereum recently set another transaction record of 400,000 transactions in a single day. Then the recent drama of the Bitcoin split has caused even more attention to Ethereum as an alternative. If you are unfamiliar with other Blockchain or...

Joshua Powers
20 September 2017

David Britton
19 September 2017

Ubuntu Server Development Summary – 19 Sep 2017

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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
19 September 2017

Dustin Kirkland
19 September 2017

Results of the Ubuntu Desktop Applications Survey

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I had the distinct honor to deliver the closing keynote of the UbuCon Europe conference in Paris a few weeks ago. First off — what a beautiful conference and venue! Kudos to the organizers who really put together a truly remarkable event.

Dustin Kirkland
19 September 2017