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55 posts from February 2016
Community collaborates on new convergent Ubuntu phones
By Thibaut Rouffineau, 19 February 2016
Today, we’re celebrating the arrival of two new Ubuntu phone community ports! If you’re the lucky owner of a Sony Xperia Z1  you will soon be able to download...
Container World 2016: Application and Machine Containers (slides)
By Dustin Kirkland, 18 February 2016
I had the opportunity to speak at Container World 2016 in Santa Clara yesterday. Â Thanks in part to the Netflix guys who preceded me, the room was absolutely...
Canonical and Samsung demonstrate Ubuntu Core on SAMSUNG ARTIK™
By Canonical, 18 February 2016
‘snappy’ Ubuntu Core ported to SAMSUNG ARTIK™ platform, running sample applications Best of breed security critical for IoT Canonical today announced that it...
ZFS Licensing and Linux
By Dustin Kirkland, 18 February 2016
We at Canonical have conducted a legal review, including discussion with the industry’s leading software freedom legal counsel, of the licenses that apply to...
MWC stand: behind the scenes (part 2)
By Canonical, 18 February 2016
It’s day two behind the scenes at MWC and the stand is starting to take shape. The iconic orange Ubuntu flags are up, the walls and doors have been assembled,...
Juju Office Hours for February 2016
By Jorge O. Castro, 17 February 2016
Come join the Charmer Summit After Party! We’re back from FOSDEM and Config Management Camp! In this session we’ll talk about the events, topics covered, and...
Juju GUI 2.0.3 released
By Jorge O. Castro, 17 February 2016
The latest release of the Juju GUI has just been packaged up and brings with it a number of small but important bug fixes: Fixed an issue where deploying the...
Meizu PRO 5 Ubuntu Edition launches globally
By Canonical, 17 February 2016
Highest specification Ubuntu phone launches internationally with Meizu Meizu PRO 5 Ubuntu Edition available for pre-order during Mobile World Congress 2016...
Juju Big Data hits the conference scene
By Kevin W Monroe, 16 February 2016
Though only a few weeks into 2016, the Juju Big Data team has already been busy engaging diverse communities at conferences and meetups. We’d like to share...
ZFS is *the* FS for Containers in Ubuntu 16.04!
By Dustin Kirkland, 16 February 2016
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial) is only a few short weeks away, and with it comes one of the most exciting new features Linux has seen in a very long time…ZFS —...
Running snaps in LXD containers
By Stéphane Graber, 16 February 2016
Introduction The LXD and AppArmor teams have been working to support loading AppArmor policies inside LXD containers for a while. This support which finally...