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340 posts from 2020
Robotics Recap: Learning, Programming & Snapping ROS 2
By sidfaber, 13 July 2020
Robotics@Canonical puts a strong focus on the migration from ROS to ROS 2. ROS 2 benefits from many improvements, especially robot security. Our goal is to...
Ubuntu Support of AWS Graviton2 Instances
By Joshua Powers, 9 July 2020
This article originally appeared on Joshua Powers’ blog Ubuntu is the industry-leading operating system for use in the cloud. Every day millions of Ubuntu...
How to manage snap updates
By Igor Ljubuncic, 9 July 2020
Updates are an integral part of the software lifecycle. Quite often, they bring improvements, vital security patches – and sometimes, unfortunately, bugs,...
MicroK8s HA tech preview is now available
By Alex Chalkias, 9 July 2020
High availability (HA) for MicroK8s, the lightweight Kubernetes, is now available as a tech preview for Linux, Windows and macOS. The Kubernetes control plane...
Canonical enables Linux desktop app support with Flutter
By Canonical, 8 July 2020
By Chris Sells (Google) & Ken VanDine (Canonical) Google’s goal for Flutter has always been to provide a portable framework for building beautiful UIs that...
Design and Web team summary – 8th July 2020
By Anthony Dillon, 8 July 2020
The web team here at Canonical run two-week iterations. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Web squad Our Web Squad...
The State of Robotics – June 2020
By Adi Singh, 8 July 2020
ROS, Ripple and reflections – In this month’s edition of The State of Robotics, we’ll tell you about the recently discovered Ripple vulnerability, the latest...
Canonical Developer Advocate Named Microsoft MVP
By Sohini Bianka Roy, 6 July 2020
We would like to congratulate Hayden Barnes, a Developer Advocate at Canonical for Ubuntu on WSL, who was awarded MVP (Most Valuable Professional) by...
Feeling at home in a LXD container
By Jeremie Deray, 3 July 2020
In this post, we will see how we can containerize our home in LXD simply managing our personal configuration files – a.k.a. dotfiles. Yeah dotfiles, named...
A snap confined shell based on Mir: Mircade
By Alan Griffiths, 3 July 2020
Mircade: An example snap confined user shell There are various scenarios and reasons for packaging a Snap confined shell and a selection of applications...
A blast from the past – Shutter
By Igor Ljubuncic, 2 July 2020
The wheel of software turns, and apps come and go. But the end of development does not always mean the end of usefulness. Sometimes, programs stubbornly...