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299 posts from 2019
Ubuntu Server development summary – 16 April 2019
By Chad Smith, 17 April 2019
Hello Ubuntu Server The purpose of this communication is to provide a status update and highlights for any interesting subjects from the Ubuntu Server Team....
Industrial & Embedded Linux: Looking Ahead
By Eric Jensen, 16 April 2019
I recently returned from an extended visit to Germany, where my colleagues and I kept busy attending conferences, visiting customers and partners. We...
On the Case – High Resource Usage
By Canonical, 11 April 2019
A customer recently submitted a case that Pedro Principeza, a Canonical Support Engineer, was able to solve using an interesting technique. Principeza was...
Make compelling videos with free software: Director’s Cut
By Igor Ljubuncic, 11 April 2019
Creating videos is easy. Creating great videos, not so much. A good production starts with an idea, but it also requires talent, time and tools. We cannot do...
Why the Visual Studio Code team launched a snap
By Sarah Dickinson, 11 April 2019
Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code is a popular free code editor with built-in support for debugging, task running, and version control. While available for Linux...
Speed up your ROS snap builds
By Kyle Fazzari, 9 April 2019
A while back I wrote a post about distributing a ROS system among multiple snaps. If you want to enable some sort of add-on story, you need to have multiple...
Optimising IoT bandwidth with delta updates
By Sarah Dickinson, 9 April 2019
As connected devices proliferate in the Internet of Things (IoT), companies need an efficient over-the-air (OTA) update mechanism for remotely delivering new...
API v3 of the yaml package for Go is available
By Gustavo Niemeyer, 5 April 2019
API v3 of the yaml package for Go is out, and it brings comment handling, intermediate node representations, and much more. The initial sketch for v3 of the...
Visual Studio Code launches as a snap
By Canonical, 4 April 2019
4th April 2019, London, UK – As of today, Microsoft Visual Studio Code is available for Linux as a snap, providing seamless auto-updates for its users....
Remote collaborative design
By Juan Real, 4 April 2019
Hands up if you or someone in your team work remotely. I am sure there are many of you out there. One of the biggest growing trends, since I started working...
AWS IoT Greengrass released as a snap
By Canonical, 2 April 2019
Canonical and AWS are excited to announce the public release of AWS IoT Greengrass as a snap. AWS IoT Greengrass is software that brings local compute,...
Design and Web team summary – 29 March 2019
By Peter Mahnke, 29 March 2019
This was a busy two weeks for the Web & Design team at Canonical. Many of the things we worked on will be completed in the next iteration, but here are some...