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270 posts from 2018
Bionic Beaver 18.04 LTS to use Xorg by default
By Will Cooke, 26 January 2018
Bionic Beaver, the codename for the next Ubuntu LTS release, is due in April 2018 and will ship with both the traditional Xorg graphics stack as well as the...
Meltdown, Spectre and Ubuntu: What you need to know
By Christian Reis, 24 January 2018
As details of the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities1 have become clearer a number of statements have been published by the multiple vendors affected;...
Kernel team summary – 24 January 2018
By Canonical, 24 January 2018
January 09 through January 23 The Kernel Team is completely focused on addressing any Spectre and Meltdown issues as they arise. A secure Ubuntu is our top...
LXD weekly status #31
By Stéphane Graber, 24 January 2018
Introduction Nothing too major happened this past week. Part of the time was at an internal planning meeting and the rest have been working on clustering,...
Ubuntu Server development summary – 23 January 2018
By Joshua Powers, 23 January 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...
Ubuntu Desktop weekly update – 22 January 2018
By Will Cooke, 22 January 2018
Here’s an update on what we’ve been working on over the last couple of weeks: GNOME We’ve been working on a patch for udisks to hide snaps from applications...
Your first robot: Introduction to the Robot Operating System [2/5]
By Kyle Fazzari, 21 January 2018
This is the second blog post in this series about creating your first robot with ROS and Ubuntu Core. In the previous post we walked through all the hardware...
Tutorial: Continuous delivery of snaps with Circle CI
By David Callé, 19 January 2018
Bullet-proof continuous delivery of software is crucial to the health of your community, more than a way to run manual tests, it also enables your early...
Canonical brings Slack to the snap ecosystem
By Canonical, 18 January 2018
The digital workspace will now be available to all Linux users London, UK – 18th January 2018 – Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, today announced the...
Spectre mitigation updates available for testing in Ubuntu Proposed
By Dustin Kirkland, 17 January 2018
Canonical holds Ubuntu to the highest standards of security and quality. This week we published candidate Ubuntu kernels providing mitigation for...
LXD weekly status #30
By Stéphane Graber, 16 January 2018
Introduction The main highlight for this week was the inclusion of the new proxy device in LXD, thanks to the hard work of some University of Texas...
Monitor your Kubernetes Cluster
By Kevin W Monroe, 16 January 2018
This article originally appeared on Kevin Monroe’s blog Keeping an eye on logs and metrics is a necessary evil for cluster admins. The benefits are clear:...