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270 posts from 2018
Offline Computing – 10 Apps for the Digital Nomad
By Alan Pope, 22 May 2018
In today’s always-connected, constantly-inturrupted world, it can often be rewarding to go offline. Disconnecting from the Internet doesn’t mean you have to...
Desktop plans for 18.10
By Will Cooke, 18 May 2018
Bionic is out the door and we’ve started the Cosmic cycle so I wanted to take this opportunity to tell you about our plans for this cycle, the sorts of...
Creating the world’s first robotic tennis ball collector with Ubuntu
By Sarah Dickinson, 18 May 2018
From manufacturing plants to homes, robots have become a staple in the modern world for making life easier. This ability to boost convenience is what the...
Fresh Snaps from April 2018
By Alan Pope, 16 May 2018
In case you missed it, here are some of the snaps we featured during April 2018. Here you’ll find snaps to enhance your productivity, tools for creatives,...
Ubuntu Server development summary – 15 May 2018
By Joshua Powers, 15 May 2018
The purpose of this communication is to provide a status update and highlights for any interesting subjects from the Ubuntu Server Team. If you would like to...
Trust and security in the Snap Store
By Canonical, 15 May 2018
Last Friday (11 May 2018) we learned that a snap was mining cryptocurrency in the background while the application was running. The practical implication of...
OpenStack Summit Vancouver 2018
By Canonical, 11 May 2018
Event Details Date: May 21-24 Location: Vancouver, BC Venue: Vancouver Convention Centre East Booth: B7 Event Link:...
Ubuntu Server development summary – 08 May 2018
By Joshua Powers, 8 May 2018
The purpose of this communication is to provide a status update and highlights for any interesting subjects from the Ubuntu Server Team. If you would like to...
An introduction to Zenkit – now available as a snap
By Guest, 8 May 2018
This is a guest blog written by Siobhan O’Rorke of Zenkit. In October 2016, Zenkit was released as an app designed to help you ‘organise anything’, enabling...
LXD Clusters: A Primer
By Michael Iatrou, 3 May 2018
Since its inception, LXD has been striving to offer a fresh and intuitive user experience for machine containers. LXD instances can be managed over the...
Introducing developer notifications for snap security updates
By Canonical, 2 May 2018
For some time, we’ve wanted a mechanism to alert snap publishers to security updates which affect their snaps. All the pieces have come together and we are...
Breeze through Ubuntu Desktop 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver
By Will Cooke, 27 April 2018
The Bionic Beaver, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS is here! It’s been a busy six months for the desktop team, and indeed for everyone working on Ubuntu. We’ve been working...