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22 posts from July 2022

Design and Web team summary – 1 July 2022

By Anthony Dillon, 12 July 2022

The Web and design team at Canonical runs two-week iterations building and maintaining all of the Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some...

Event Data Recorders: Safety and software considerations

By Bertrand Boisseau, 12 July 2022

There has been a lot of talk about Event Data Recorders (EDR) in the automotive industry lately. Event Data Recorders are tamper-proof memory devices that...

UX Deep Dive: Classify interactions for a more intuitive user interface

By Will Grant, 11 July 2022

We try hard to make our products as intuitive and familiar as possible, but there will always be “advanced” options and rarely-used features. So how do we...

Installing Foxglove Studio is now easier than ever

By Gabriel Aguiar Noury, 11 July 2022

Today, Foxglove announced the release of the Foxglove Studio snap. Foxglove Studio helps you experience the world as a robot does, providing a rich set of...

Firefox snap performance Part 3: significant startup improvements

By Oliver Smith, 8 July 2022

In Part 3 of our Firefox snap performance series we cover two significant performance improvements that have just landed for all users.

Install Gazebo for ROS 2 in under a minute

By gbeuzeboc, 8 July 2022

Recently, we announced the beta release of the Gazebo snap to help you install Gazebo for ROS 2. The gazebo snap is easy to install on dozens of Linux...

Bring home the disco with these Raspberry Pi HAT tutorials (Part 1)

By Oliver Smith, 7 July 2022

Ubuntu is lighting up the Raspberry Pi this week with the first of a two-part collection of Unicorn HAT tutorials from our resident Pi developers!

Behind open DORS – Conference organizers share their thoughts on Canonical, Ubuntu, snaps, and open-source

By Igor Ljubuncic, 5 July 2022

A Linux conference almost as old as Linux itself. In mid-May, DORS/CLUC hosted its 29th event at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing in...

The State of Robotics – May & June 2022

By Gabriel Aguiar Noury, 4 July 2022

In May, robotics felt the waves of the Hawksbill and Jellyfish. Last month brought us the first LTS for ROS 2, Humble Hawksbill. As part of the ROS community,...

Design and Web team summary – 17 June 2022

By Anthony Dillon, 1 July 2022

The Web and design team at Canonical run two-week iterations building and maintaining all of the Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some...