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48 posts from July 2017

If you’re still using ifconfig, you’re living in the past

By Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre, 7 July 2017

The world evolves I regularly see “recommendations” to use ifconfig to get interface information in mailing list posts or bug reports and other places. I...

Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: July 7, 2017

By Will Cooke, 7 July 2017

GNOME We’ve been working on the migration and transition processes for users going from Unity 7 to GNOME Shell. We’ve worked on migrating favourites, the...

OpenStack in a Snap

By Corey Bryant, 6 July 2017

OpenStack is complex and many OpenStack community members are working hard to make the deployment and operation of OpenStack easier. Much of this time is...

Ubuntu Foundations Development Summary: July 5, 2017

By Canonical, 5 July 2017

This newsletter is to provide a status update from the Ubuntu Foundations Team. There will also be highlights provided for any interesting subjects the team...

Simplifying local development: The ./run executable

By Robin Winslow, 5 July 2017

Canonical’s webteam manage over 18 websites as well as many supporting projects and frameworks. These projects are built with any combination of Python, Ruby,...

Quick and easy network configuration with Netplan

By Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre, 5 July 2017

Earlier this week I uploaded netplan 0.21 in artful, with SRUs in progress for the stable releases. There are still lots of features coming up, but it’s also...

User acceptance testing of snaps, with Travis CI

By elopio, 5 July 2017

Travis CI offers a great continuous integrationservice for the projects hosted in GitHub. With it you can run tests, deliverartifacts and deploy services on...

Switching from Unity to Gnome-Shell: first challenges

By Iain Lane, 3 July 2017

I work at Canonical, on the desktop team. The team works on Ubuntu Desktop, publishing a release every six months containing the fruits of our efforts — or at...

Designing build.snapcraft.io

By Matthew Paul Thomas, 3 July 2017

Many open-source software developers use GitHub. Let’s make it as easy as possible for them to build and release their code automatically.

AZLOGICA use Ubuntu Core for customised IoT agricultural solutions

By Sarah Dickinson, 3 July 2017

Shrimps are now considered as the most lucrative seafood product with demand growing from consumers due to their high nutritional value. This is reflected in...

How Ubuntu helped InnovaPOS revolutionise the vending machine industry

By Sarah Dickinson, 3 July 2017

The smart vending machines market is on the rise with estimates of 2.7 million to be sold by 2020 with Asia Pacific predicted to be the fastest growing region...

June’s reading list

By Inayaili de León Persson, 3 July 2017

Here are the best links shared by the design team in June 2017: How I Create Talks Technical Speaker Starter Kit 4 Things I Know About Pattern Libraries The...