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Canonical
19 September 2017

Webinar: OpenStack Pike is here, what’s new?

Article Cloud and server

Sign up for our new webinar about the Canonical OpenStack Pike release. Join us to learn about the new features and how to upgrade from Ocata to Pike using OpenStack Charms.  

Canonical
19 September 2017


Canonical
18 September 2017

MAAS 2.3.0 Alpha 3 release!

Article Cloud and server

MAAS 2.3.0 (alpha3)New Features & ImprovementsHardware Testing (backend only)MAAS has now introduced an improved hardware testing framework. This new framework allows MAAS to test individual components of a single machine, as well as providing better feedback to the user for each of those tests. This feature has...

Canonical
18 September 2017


Stéphane Graber
18 September 2017

LXD: Weekly Status #15

Article Cloud and server

Introduction This week has been pretty quiet as far as upstream changes since half the team was attending the Open Source Summity, the Linux Plumbers Conference and the Linux Security Summit in Los Angeles, California. We got to talk with other container runtime maintainers, kernel developers and users, having a lot of...

Stéphane Graber
18 September 2017


Will Cooke
15 September 2017

Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: September 15, 2017

News Desktop

A fairly short update this week as we’re in bug fixing mode ahead of final beta in a couple of weeks. GNOME This week saw the release of GNOME 3.26, and we’re ready to ship it in 17.10. This will bring new versions of the core applications and new features as described in the GNOME

Will Cooke
15 September 2017


Canonical
14 September 2017

Security Team Weekly Summary: September 14, 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
14 September 2017


Canonical
13 September 2017

Kernel Team Summary – September 13, 2017

Article Cloud and server

September 05 through September 12 Development (Artful / 17.10) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtfulAardvark/ReleaseSchedule Important upcoming dates: Final Beta – Sept 28 (~2 weeks away) Kernel Freeze – Oct 5 (~3 weeks away) Final Freeze – Oct 12 (~4 weeks away) Ubuntu 17.10 – Oct 19 (~5 weeks away) We intend to target a...

Canonical
13 September 2017


Dustin Kirkland
13 September 2017

Running Ubuntu Containers with Hyper-V Isolation on Windows

Article Cloud and server

Canonical and Microsoft have teamed up to deliver an truly special experience — running Ubuntu containers with Hyper-V Isolation on Windows 10 and Windows Servers! We have published a fantastic tutorial at https://ubu.one/UhyperV, with screenshots and easy-to-follow instructions.  You should be up and running in...

Dustin Kirkland
13 September 2017


Will Cooke
13 September 2017

Congratulations to GNOME on the release of 3.26

Article Desktop

   From everyone at Ubuntu, our hearty congratulations and thanks for the 3.26 release. As you’re no doubt aware by now the next release of Ubuntu, the Artful Aardvark, is only a few short weeks away and will bring the latest GNOME desktop environment with it. We’d planned to ship 3.26 from the beginning of

Will Cooke
13 September 2017


Richard Harding
13 September 2017

Modeling infrastructure with security and flexibility in mind

Article Cloud and server

Juju allows the user to model their infrastructure in a clean and simple repeatable way. Often deployments are repeated across different clouds and regions. Sometimes it’s repeated from dev to staging to production. Regardless of the way it’s repeated,

Richard Harding
13 September 2017


Sergio Schvezov
13 September 2017

Week 36 of 2017 in snapcraft

Article Desktop

Welcome to the weekly development notes for snapcraft! This covers work from 03 September until 09 September of 2017. Highlights snapcraft 2.34 has been tagged, currently available in Ubuntu Artful Aardvark, 16.04 LTS and 17.04 in proposed and the snapcraft beta channel. Catkin plugin support for pip dependencies is...

Sergio Schvezov
13 September 2017


Canonical
13 September 2017

NEC partners with Canonical on Ubuntu Core based signage platform

News Canonical announcements

CMS digital signage solution leverages NEC large format displays and the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3 Munich, 13 September 2017 – NEC Display Solutions Europe today announced a collaboration with Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Core and Screenly, the leading digital signage software solution for Raspberry Pi. This...

Canonical
13 September 2017


David Britton
12 September 2017

Ubuntu Server Development Summary – 12 Sep 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
12 September 2017


luciadecastro
12 September 2017

Wavebox snap: A central hub for Gmail, Outlook, Trello, Slack and more

Article Desktop

Wavebox is an app that brings together most of the tools you’ll need on an everyday basis, like Gmail, Outlook, Office 365, Slack and more, and is now available as a snap! We had a chat with Thomas Beverley, Co-founder & Software Engineer at Wavebox, to understand how was their experience with snapping their application.

luciadecastro
12 September 2017


David Callé
11 September 2017

Fresh Snaps from August 2017

Article Desktop

September, back to school! This month’s pick of the top snaps is all about productivity and collaboration tools. Very competent web browser? Check. Messaging clients? Check. PDF and Video files editing? Check. Hacking your router to host apps and Minepocket server management? Well, September also has weekends – check!...

David Callé
11 September 2017