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25 posts from January 2018
Ubuntu Desktop weekly update – 22 January 2018
By Will Cooke, 22 January 2018
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...
Your first robot: Introduction to the Robot Operating System [2/5]
By Kyle Fazzari, 21 January 2018
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...
Tutorial: Continuous delivery of snaps with Circle CI
By David Callé, 19 January 2018
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...
Canonical brings Slack to the snap ecosystem
By Canonical, 18 January 2018
The digital workspace will now be available to all Linux users London, UK – 18th January 2018 – Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, today announced the...
Spectre mitigation updates available for testing in Ubuntu Proposed
By Dustin Kirkland, 17 January 2018
Canonical holds Ubuntu to the highest standards of security and quality. This week we published candidate Ubuntu kernels providing mitigation for...
LXD weekly status #30
By Stéphane Graber, 16 January 2018
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...
Monitor your Kubernetes Cluster
By Kevin W Monroe, 16 January 2018
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:...
Meltdown and Spectre Status Update
By Dean Henrichsmeyer, 12 January 2018
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...
Ubuntu Server development summary – 9 January 2018
By David Britton, 9 January 2018
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....
LXD weekly status #29
By Stéphane Graber, 8 January 2018
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...
Announcing the Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition 9370 with Ubuntu
By Canonical, 5 January 2018
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...
Ubuntu Updates for the Meltdown / Spectre Vulnerabilities
By Dustin Kirkland, 4 January 2018
For up-to-date patch, package, and USN links, please refer to: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/KnowledgeBase/SpectreAndMeltdown Unfortunately, you’ve...