--- title: Blog posts tagged "planetubuntu" description: Canonical makes open source secure, reliable and easy to use, providing support for Ubuntu and a portfolio of enterprise-grade technologies. Founded in 2004, Canonical operates globally with team members in over 80 countries. url: https://canonical.com/blog/tag/planetubuntu?format=md --- # Blog posts tagged "planetubuntu" #### [Snap interview with Krita](https://canonical.com/blog/snap-interview-with-krita) This is the second in a series of interviews with Snap adopters, you can read the first interview here. If you have an interesting snap story to tell, please contact me. I’ve always been a big fan of Krita, so when I started working on snap packaging it was high on my list to do. In doing --- Desktop #### [Snap interview with Rocket.Chat](https://canonical.com/blog/snap-interview-with-rocket-chat) Snap packaging has been gaining a lot of momentum recently, from desktop apps to cloud services, and everything in between. To learn more about the people and projects that are building snaps Michael Hall, Ubuntu Community Manager, reached out to Aaron Ogle a Core Contributor to the Open Source Project Rocket.Chat. How did you find out ab --- Cloud and server #### [Monitoring “big software” stacks with the Elastic Stack](https://canonical.com/blog/monitoring-big-software-stacks-with-the-elastic-stack) Big​ ​Software​ ​is​ ​a​ ​new​ ​class​ ​of​ ​application.​ ​It’s​ ​composed​ ​of​ ​so​ ​many moving​ ​pieces​ ​that​ ​humans,​ ​by​ ​themselves,​ ​cannot​ ​design,​ ​deploy​ ​or operate​ ​them.​ ​OpenStack,​ ​Hadoop​ ​and​ ​container-based​ ​architectures​ ​are all​ ​examples​ ​of​ ​​Big​ ​Software​. Gathering​ ​service​ ​metrics​ ​for​ ​ --- Cloud and server #### [Apache Bigtop and Juju: a charming approach to big data](https://canonical.com/blog/announcing-charms-for-apache-bigtop-big-data) Juju users have been enjoying our collection of Big Data charms for over two years. During this time, we’ve learned a lot about what our users want from this complex corner of big software. The Apache Bigtop community distills best practices for installing big data software. They extensively test and package Apache big data projects --- Cloud and server #### [The new simplicity to consume DPDK](https://canonical.com/blog/the-new-simplicity-to-consume-dpdk) DPDK is a fast moving project comprised of a set of libraries and drivers for fast packet processing. It utilizes polling threads, huge pages, numa locality and multi core processing to achieve low latencies and a high packet processing rate. Up until recently most guides to consume or experiment with DPDK looked like this: Download --- Cloud and server #### [Flexwebhosting spins up services in record time with Canonical](https://canonical.com/blog/flexwebhosting-spins-up-services-in-record-time-with-canonical) Flexwebhosting is one of the largest web hosting providers in the Netherlands with over 60,000 customers and houses over 6,500 web servers in different data centers in Amsterdam. Working with Canonical and choosing its managed cloud offering Bootstack as well as its service modelling tool Juju helped reduce time to service to minutes rath --- Cloud and server #### [MAAS 1.9: Taking bare-metal beyond “minimal provisioning”](https://canonical.com/blog/maas-1-9-taking-bare-metal-beyond-minimal-provisioning) Complex node configuration now fully supported, including NIC bonding, tagged VLANs, bcache, LVM, software RAID devices and more One of the (only somewhat unsung) heroes in the MAAS user community is Ante Karamatić. Ante is the lead of a consulting team which does complex deployments for telecom cloud providers, and he’s also known for be --- Cloud and server #### [Diving into Juju](https://canonical.com/blog/diving-into-juju) In my last post, I introduced you to Juju and talked about how it could help you. Now I’d like to walk you through some real world examples of Juju in action. Workloads Bundles are used to represent workloads. Bundles can be simple, like the WordPress example in the previous post, or complex. OpenStack If --- Cloud and server #### [Dell’s Ubuntu based Developer laptop just got better](https://canonical.com/blog/dells-ubuntu-based-developer-laptop-just-got-better) Dell announced today an updated XPS 13, preloaded with Ubuntu, which has a full high-definition 1080p display. It will be available for sale in the USA  and Canada, but as part of this update Dell will also be making it available in parts of Europe, the Middle East and Africa.   As we reported in --- Company #### [Ubuntu User Surveys 2012 – Part 4 and Final](https://canonical.com/blog/ubuntu-survey-fourth-and-final) I wanted to know what the reasons were for people choosing Ubuntu. After all there are other better-known choices out there. For the respondents across all three surveys, open source stood out as the key attribute, true whatever the age of the respondents and whenever they adopted Ubuntu. Curiosity was almost equally as important, and --- Company #### [Ubuntu User Surveys 2012 – Part 3](https://canonical.com/blog/ubuntu-survey-part-3) So as promised let’s take a look a the next set of results from the Ubuntu Survey.  I am going to bundle together the broader world of Ubuntu looking at other OSes people use, Ubuntu One usage, whether people are interested in the new products announced and likelihood to purchase Ubuntu pre-installed. As usual where --- Company #### [Ubuntu User Surveys 2012 – Part 2](https://canonical.com/blog/ubuntu-user-surveys-part-2) Yesterday we looked at the demographics of the respondents to the survey and some observations about the validity of the date. I recommend you read that post first. Today though we are going to dive a little more into how people first discovered Ubuntu and installed it. How long have you used Ubuntu? I wanted --- Company #### [Ubuntu User Surveys 2012 – Part 1](https://canonical.com/blog/the-ubuntu-user-surveys-part-1) Ok, we got a lot of response to the user survey poll, so thank you to everybody that took part. I will publish access to all the results through the fantastic Survermonkey site on Monday, but to make it easier to digest, I’ll split the results out over three blog posts. Before I delve into --- Company #### [Ubuntu Server Survey 2012](https://canonical.com/blog/ubuntu-server-survey-2012) The Ubuntu Server Survey is finally ready to be published it makes for a fascinating read. It is the third survey of its kind and again it has been an overwhelming response with over 6,000 completed surveys throughout 2011 and a heartfelt thanks to all who took the time to complete the comprehensive survey. The --- Company