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371 posts from 2015
Canonical Cloud Chatter: October 2015
By James Donner, 6 November 2015
We had a very busy month, with the new release of Ubuntu 15.10 and the OpenStack Summit in Tokyo. We are proud to announce that the OpenStack Foundation...
Using LXD with a file-based ZFS pool on Ubuntu Wily
By Dean Henrichsmeyer, 6 November 2015
Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily) comes natively with some technology previously only available in PPAs. LXD is a container hypervisor that enables and facilitates...
Scope Roulette
By Amrisha Prashar, 5 November 2015
To celebrate Scopes we’ve launched Scope Roulette! It’s an interactive game that gives you a chance to learn more about Scopes by swiping those visible on...
LXD in the Sky with Diamonds
By Dustin Kirkland, 5 November 2015
Picture yourself containers on a server With systemd trees and spawned tty’s Somebody calls you, you answer quite quickly A world with the density so high –...
Canonical launches world’s fastest hypervisor, LXD
By Canonical, 5 November 2015
London, November 5th 2015 – Canonical today released in beta the world’s fastest hypervisor, LXD, which takes a pure-container approach to Linux...
Another wave of hacking in China this time with TechCrunch
By April Wang, 4 November 2015
After undertaking several Ubuntu Phone led hackathons in Beijing and Shenzhen, we embraced the opportunity to be part of the TechCrunch one this past weekend...
ODS Tokyo: OpenStack For Everyone
By James Donner, 3 November 2015
We kicked off OpenStack Summit Tokyo’s Thursday Track Day with Mark Shuttleworth’s opening address, “OpenStack for Everyone”. You can watch it yourself below”...
Interoute accelerates enterprises’ move to the cloud – and to Ubuntu
By Udi Nachmany, 2 November 2015
A new entrant to Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Global IaaS in 2015 was the UK-based Interoute with its Virtual Data Centre (VDC). Not your typical cloud giant,...
DJI launches most-powerful computer for drones – on Ubuntu
By Canonical, 2 November 2015
The new Manifold is a high-performance embedded computer that cuts processing time and optimizes real-time data analysis for drones. Fully compatible with...
Nested containers in LXD
By Serge Hallyn, 30 October 2015
We’ve long considered nested containers an important use case in lxc. Lxd is no different in this regard. Lately there have been several questionsIf you are...
#InternetOfToys – let the toy battles begin
By Maarten Ectors, 30 October 2015
Wouldn’t it be great to play with toys and get paid for it? If this sounds like music to your ears, then this blog post is for you. If you are a business...