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27 posts from February 2018
Skype discuss easing Linux maintenance with snaps
By Sarah Dickinson, 13 February 2018
Skype is used by hundreds of millions of users globally to make free video and voice calls, send files, video and instant messages. It has been two years...
Your first robot: The controller [3/5]
By Kyle Fazzari, 11 February 2018
This is the third blog post in this series about creating your first robot with ROS and Ubuntu Core. In the previous post you were introduced to the Robot...
Ubuntu Desktop weekly update – February 9, 2018
By Will Cooke, 9 February 2018
Here’s the round up from this week: GNOME The default session has now been switched back to use Xorg by default. Wayland is still installed and can be...
Tutorial: Setup a ZFS storage pool
By David Callé, 9 February 2018
ZFS is a handy way of pooling disks together into a single filesystem. Whether you want to transparently mirror content across disks to preserve yourself from...
LXD weekly status #33
By Stéphane Graber, 7 February 2018
Weekly status for the week of the 29th of January to the 5th of February 2018. Introduction This past week, the entire LXD team was meeting in Brussels to...
Ubuntu Server development summary – 06 February 2018
By David Britton, 6 February 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....
Building Slack for the Linux community and adopting snaps
By Sarah Dickinson, 6 February 2018
Used by millions around the world, Slack is an enterprise software platform that allows teams and businesses of all sizes to communicate effectively. Slack...
Snapcraft Summit summary – day 5
By elopio, 3 February 2018
This Snapcraft Summit is coming to an end. We had five days full of hard and fun work, together with many friends from many other projects that are part of...
Ubuntu Desktop weekly update – February 2, 2018
By Will Cooke, 2 February 2018
GNOME As you might have already read, we’ve taken the decision to ship Xorg by default in Bionic 18.04 LTS. The Wayland session will still be available as an...
Snapcraft Summit summary – day 3
By Kyle Fazzari, 2 February 2018
The third day of the Snapcraft Summit here in Seattle saw all the developers reconvene and really get down to work, and ROSHub came by in the afternoon with...
Tutorial: Install single-server OpenStack with conjure-up
By David Callé, 2 February 2018
OpenStack is the de facto open source standard to build private and public clouds. We believe deploying and getting familiar with OpenStack should be an easy...
Skype now available as a snap for Linux users
By Canonical, 1 February 2018
Skype snap widens availability in the Linux community with easy install and automatic updates London, UK – 1st February 2018 – Canonical, the company behind...