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341 posts from 2020
Security corner: snap interface & snap connections
By Igor Ljubuncic, 15 September 2020
One of the defining features of snaps is their strong security. Snaps are designed to run isolated from the underlying system, with granular control and...
An Introduction to Testing Robot Code
By Ted Kern, 14 September 2020
The myriad of different fields that make up robotics makes QA practices difficult to settle on. Field testing is the go-to, since a functioning robot is often...
The State of Robotics – August 2020
By Kyle Fazzari, 12 September 2020
So that’s the summer gone (hopefully, that heat was awful). Or winter if that’s where you are. Seasons change and so does the state of robotics. Fortunately,...
Snap! Collaborate and listen!
By Alan Pope, 10 September 2020
You’d think we would be running out of terrible/great (delete as applicable) 80s songs to try and shoehorn into the titles of these blog posts. Turns out, not...
How Aldo’s passion for artificial intelligence and machine learning led to a role at Canonical
By Canonical, 10 September 2020
Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu, but who are the people behind Canonical? This blog is the second in a series getting to know some of the different...
WSLConf returns this week with worldwide sessions
By haydenb, 8 September 2020
WSLConf returns this week, on September 9th and/or 10th, depending on where you are in the world. WSLConf is the community conference for Windows Subsystem...
How Canonical remotely delivers and supports customer cloud deployments
By Canonical, 7 September 2020
The widespread shift to remote working in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been a disruptive change for countless businesses; some 13% of organisations...
Tutorial: Getting Started with ROS
By sidfaber, 3 September 2020
ROS, the Robot Operating System, is the platform of choice for robot development. However, the breadth and depth of existing documentation can be daunting for...
Design and Web team summary – 2nd September 2020
By Anthony Dillon, 2 September 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...
HP Z series on Ubuntu – AI development on enterprise workstations, now in your remote office
By Canonical, 2 September 2020
Today, HP announced the launch of its Z series of laptops and workstations certified with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, the latest additions to their popular professional...
Canonical at KubeCon EU 2020: our first virtual KubeCon experience
By Alex Chalkias, 2 September 2020
Another great KubeCon has recently come to an end – which is nothing less than what we expected. After all, that’s why Canonical and Ubuntu have been...
Spotting /tmp related vulnerabilities with TmpWatcher
By Mike Salvatore, 27 August 2020
Did you know that misuse of the /tmp directory is one of the most common security flaws? If you search mitre for the keyword “tmp”, you’ll find a plethora of...