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21 posts from December 2020
Snaps and themes – on the path to seamless desktop integration
By Igor Ljubuncic, 31 December 2020
Alongside performance, theming is one of the primary concerns for desktop snap users. People expect applications bundled inside snaps to look and behave just...
Design and Web team summary – 29 December 2020
By Claudio Gomboli, 29 December 2020
The web team here at Canonical run two-week iterations. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Web squad Our Web Squad...
Why LZO was chosen as the new compression method
By Ian Johnson, 23 December 2020
Everyone wants fast applications. Recently, we provided a mechanism to make snap applications launch faster by using the LZO format. We introduced this change...
What’s new in Open Source MANO: multi-cloud orchestration, operator lifecycle management, and more..
By Wajeeha Hamid, 18 December 2020
Open source MANO (OSM) community recently added two more bricks in the wall of NFV orchestration events: OSM Release NINE and OSM#10 Hackfest. The community...
Telco and Ubuntu: 2020 roundup
By Andreea Munteanu, 17 December 2020
2021 is around the corner and we had such a tremendous journey this year. Like many others, at Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, we lived different times...
Use Amazon ECR Public and EKS-D to deploy LTS Docker Images
By Valentin Viennot, 16 December 2020
It’s re:invent season already, and we had exciting news to announce with Amazon this year. With all these remote sessions, what’s better than a quick lab to...
Raspberry Pi and Ubuntu: 2020 roundup
By Rhys Davies, 15 December 2020
We’re almost there, 2021 is just around the corner. Like many others, we at Canonical have a deep appreciation for all things Raspberry Pi. We see the good...
MAAS 2.9 is now available
By Bill Wear, 10 December 2020
Canonical is happy to announce that MAAS 2.9 is now available. We’ll get to the details of installing it in just a moment, but first, let’s walk through a...
Snaps: How we got here
By Alan Pope, 10 December 2020
I’m celebrating nine years at Canonical, and coming up on 15 years since I started contributing to Ubuntu in the community. It’s been quite the ride, helping...
The State of Robotics – November 2020
By Kyle Fazzari, 9 December 2020
Goodbye Thanksgiving (well, for some of us), hello Christmas! The holiday season really is the best, and it always brings interesting robotics news, which we...
MAAS CLI-only machine deployment
By Bill Wear, 8 December 2020
Continuing in our series on CLI-only MAAS operation, it’s time to deploy machines. In the previous post, we reached the point of creating and commissioning...
Design and Web team summary – 08 December 2020
By Anthony Dillon, 8 December 2020
The web team here at Canonical run two week iterations. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Web squad Our Web Squad...