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Alan Griffiths
24 July 2019

Mir support for Wayland

Internet of Things Article

What is Mir, what is Wayland, do I care? Shells for graphical interfaces come in many forms, from digital signage and kiosks that just show a single full screen application; to desktop environments that manage multiple applications, multiple screens and multiple workspaces. Traditionally, shells are built from a number of closely coupled ...


Sarah Dickinson
23 July 2019

Community Snapcrafter on MicroK8s, summits and the evolving nature of snaps

Desktop Article

In January 2018, Dani Llewellyn joined her first Snapcraft Summit in Seattle in her role as a community Snapcrafter. At that event, we discussed her views on everything snap related from most requested snaps, new feature requests and popular discussion topics. Since then, snaps has grown across every metric and seen numerous new high prof ...


Andres Rodriguez
9 July 2019

MAAS 2.6 – ESXi storage, multiple gateways, HTTP boot and more

Cloud and server Article

Canonical is happy to announce the availability of MAAS 2.6. This new release introduces a range of very exciting features and several improvements that enhances MAAS across various areas. Let’s talk about a few notable ones: Growing support for ESXi Datastores MAAS has expanded its support of ESXi by allowing administrators to create & c ...


Alex Hung
8 July 2019

Analyze ACPI Tables in a Text File with FWTS

Cloud and server Article

I often need to implement tests for new ACPI tables before they become available on real hardware. Fortunately, FWTS provides a framework to read ACPI tables’ binary. The below technique is especially convenient for ACPI firmware and OS kernel developers. It provides a simple approach to verifying ACPI tables without compiling firmware an ...


Canonical
5 July 2019

Ubuntu updates for TCP SACK Panic vulnerabilities

Cloud and server Article

Issues have been identified in the way the Linux kernel’s TCP implementation processes Selective Acknowledgement (SACK) options and handles low Maximum Segment Size (MSS) values. These TCP SACK Panic vulnerabilities could expose servers to a denial of service attack, so it is crucial to have systems patched. Updated versions of the Linux ...


Chad Smith
26 June 2019

Ubuntu Server development summary – 26 June 2019

Cloud and server Article

Hello Ubuntu Server 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 to reach the server team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-server channel on Freenode. Alternatively, you can sign up and use the Ubuntu Server Team ...


Alex Cattle
25 June 2019

The future of mobile connectivity

Cloud and server Article

Mobile operators face a range of challenges today from saturation, competition and regulation – all of which are having a negative impact on revenues. The introduction of 5G offers new customer segments and services to offset this decline. However, unlike the introduction of 4G which was dominated by consumer benefits, 5G is expected to b ...


Jeremie Deray
21 June 2019

ROS 2 Command Line Interface

Robotics Article

Disclosure: read the post until the end, a surprise awaits you! Moving from ROS 1 to ROS 2 can be a little overwhelming.It is a lot of (new) concepts, tools and a large codebase to get familiar with. And just like many of you, I am getting started with ROS 2. One of the central ...


wgs1
20 June 2019

Kubernetes on Mac: how to set up

Cloud and server Article

UPDATED in July 2020 with the latest instruction set. Are you looking for a Kubernetes solution to run on your Mac? MicroK8s is a lightweight, pure upstream distribution of Kubernetes developed by Canonical. It’s a compact Linux snap that installs a single-node Kubernetes cluster alongside carefully selected add-ons on Linux, Windows and ...


Karl Williams
20 June 2019

Vanilla Framework 2.0 upgrade guide

Cloud and server Article

We have just released Vanilla Framework 2.0, Canonical’s SCSS styling framework, and – despite our best efforts to minimise the impact – the new features come with changes that will not be automatically backwards compatible with sites built using previous versions of the framework. To make the transition to v2.0 easier, we have compiled a ...


Igor Ljubuncic
20 June 2019

Parallel installs – test and run multiple instances of snaps

Desktop Article

In Linux, testing software is both easy and difficult at the same time. While the repository channels offer great availability to software, you can typically only install a single instance of an application. If you want to test multiple instances, you will most likely need to configure the remainder yourself. With snaps, this is a ...