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Bill Wear
26 April 2023

No more DHCP(d)

Cloud and server Article

“He’s dead, Jim.”  Dr. McCoy DHCP is dead; long live DHCP. Yes, the end-of-life announcement for ISC DHCP means that the ISC will no longer provide official support or updates for the software. Our ever-faithful, omnipresent friend — the familiar dhcpd daemon — is retiring, albeit over a really long walk to that cabin in the ...


Tytus Kurek
26 April 2023

ChatGPT uncertain about the future of cloud computing

Cloud and server Article

ChatGPT has been the talk of the town for more than four months now. As the first ever artificial intelligence (AI) -powered chatbot, it has quickly gained immense popularity, helping students, engineers and even executives generate content, write and debug code and run market analyses. But could ChatGPT be used for anything other than na ...


gbeuzeboc
24 April 2023

Optimise your ROS snap – Part 5

Robotics Article

Welcome to Part 5 of our “Optimise your ROS snap” blog series. Make sure to check Part 4. This fifth part is going to cover two different optimisations. The first one, covers the compression algorithm. The second one, is about implementing extremely risky but efficient file deletion. We are going to present two completely different ...


Canonical
20 April 2023

Canonical releases Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster

Canonical announcements Article

New installer, Active Directory login and gaming performance enhance Ubuntu Desktop for work and play in the latest interim release of Ubuntu. ...


Massimiliano Gori
20 April 2023

Azure AD authentication comes to Ubuntu Desktop 23.04

Desktop Article

Ubuntu Desktop 23.04 is the first and only Linux distribution to enable native user authentication with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) ...


Philip Williams
14 April 2023

Cloud storage at the edge with MicroCeph

Ceph Article

Over the years, our enterprise data centre users have told us how much they love the end to end experience of an application-centric solution like Juju to manage their entire infrastructure.  Juju is a software operator framework that abstracts the specifics of operating complex software and makes it simple and straightforward to deploy, ...


Ijlal Loutfi
13 April 2023

Canonical Livepatch gets even better – Now supporting Hardware Enablement Kernels

Security Livepatch

Livepatch allows Ubuntu users to fix critical and high kernel vulnerabilities at runtime, which reduces the need for unplanned reboots. Until now, Livepatch has only been available for Long-Term Release (LTS) kernels, but starting with the release of Ubuntu’s interim release of 23.04 Lunar Lobster in April 2023, it will also be available ...


gbeuzeboc
11 April 2023

Optimise your ROS snap – Part 2

Robotics Article

Welcome to Part 2 of the “optimise your ROS snap” blog series. Make sure to check Part 1 before reading this blog post. This second part is going to present initial optimisations already used in the Gazebo snap. We will present the benefit that they could bring to our ROS snaps as well as the ...


Canonical
6 April 2023

Canonical presence at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023

Ubuntu Article

Canonical, the publishers of Ubuntu, will have a strong presence at this year’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe as a platinum sponsor. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship will once again bring together adopters and technologists from leading open-source and cloud-native communities worldwide to meet in Amsterdam, Netherlands, ...


gbeuzeboc
6 April 2023

Optimise your ROS snap – Part 1

Robotics Article

Do you want to optimise the performance of your ROS snap? We reduced the size of the installed Gazebo snap by 95%! This is how you can do it for your snap. Welcome to Part 1 of the “optimise your ROS snap” blog series. This series of 6 blogs will show the tools and methodologies ...