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30 posts from August 2015
Guests in Ubuntu OpenStack: ODS Vancouver
By James Donner, 14 August 2015
A key theme of IaaS is that Guests are what makes the compute part of IaaS interesting. And, as Dustin Kirkland suggests in his OpenStack Summit keynote,...
7iSolutions joins Charm Partner Programme
By Canonical, 14 August 2015
Canonical is excited to announce that 7iSolutions has joined the Charm Partner Programme. Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme helps solution providers make...
Meet Mycroft: Open Source Artificial Intelligence Powered by Snappy
By Maarten Ectors, 14 August 2015
This is a guest post by the Mycroft team as part of “the startup stories”, a series of blog posts about how and why innovative companies are using Ubuntu...
France Labs joins the Charm Partner Programme
By Canonical, 13 August 2015
Canonical is excited to announce that France Labs has joined the Charm Partner Programme. Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme helps solution providers make...
Ubuntu and LXD at ContainerCon 2015
By Dustin Kirkland, 12 August 2015
Canonical is delighted to sponsor ContainerCon 2015, a Linux Foundation event in Seattle next week, August 17-19, 2015. It’s quite exciting to see the A-list...
How Netflix tunes Ubuntu on EC2
By Jorge O. Castro, 11 August 2015
One of the nice things about having Netflix running Ubuntu is that the community can take advantage of the lessons they learn about running services at scale....
Ubuntu One file syncing code Open Sourced
By Canonical, 10 August 2015
Today, we’re happy to be open sourcing the biggest piece of our Ubuntu One file syncing service. The code we’re releasing is the server side of what desktop...
Golden Ratio calculated to 2 trillion digits, on Ubuntu, in the Cloud
By Dustin Kirkland, 10 August 2015
The Golden Ratio is one of the oldest and most visible irrational numbers known to humanity. Pi is perhaps more famous, but the Golden Ratio is found in more...
BQ goes global with Ubuntu
By Canonical, 10 August 2015
The successful European launches of the BQ Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition and it’s slightly larger brother, the BQ Aquaris E5 HD Ubuntu Edition, have seen the...
Celebrate the new Film Scope with DJ Yoda
By Amrisha Prashar, 7 August 2015
With the launch of the new Film Scope on the Ubuntu phone, users can now watch movie trailers, read reviews and discover film choices. We’ve managed to get...
Vanilla: Creating a modular Sass library
By Robin Winslow, 5 August 2015
We recently introduced Vanilla framework, a light-weight styling framework which is intended to replace the old Guidelines framework as the basis for our...
The first app-enabled spider
By Maarten Ectors, 5 August 2015
If you are into robot spiders then the erle-spider is something to look forward to. It will be the first app-enabled Snappy Ubuntu Core and ROS powered robot...