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Canonical
20 July 2015

Meizu MX4 Ubuntu Edition now available for direct purchase

Phone and tablet Article

Good news for Ubuntu Phone fans this morning, those in the EU can now purchase the Meizu MX4 Ubuntu Edition directly from Meizu’s online store. After a successful launch period that saw thousands interact with the digital origami wall and earn invitations to purchase, consumers can now purchase a Meizu MX4 Ubuntu phone directly from ...


Amrisha Prashar
17 July 2015

Phone update: July

Phone and tablet Article

The full list of Ubuntu Phone updates for July are provided below: General improvements Refreshed icons throughout including apps and indicator icons Shell rotation Additional keyboard layouts added for Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Greek, Norwegian, Ukrainian, Slovak, Icelandic Scopes Keyword tagging support added to News, Photos and Today ...


Canonical
16 July 2015

The monochromatic makeover

Ubuntu Featured

We have given our monochromatic icons a small facelift to make them more elegant, lighter and consistent across the platform by incorporating our Suru language and font style. The rationale behind the new designs are similar to that of our old guidelines, where we have kept to our recurring font patterns but made them more ...


Jane Silber
15 July 2015

Clarification on IP Rights Policy

Ubuntu open source

We are updating our Intellectual Property Rights Policy to clarify the relationship between this policy and the licences of the constituent works in Ubuntu.  Specifically, we are adding a single clause which states: “Ubuntu is an aggregate work of many works, each covered by their own licence(s). For the purposes of determining what you c ...


Charles Butler
15 July 2015

Continuous Integration with Juju and Drone CI

Cloud and server Article

PreambleDelivering your Charms to the community can seem like an uphill climb when youhave minimal and manual testing around your project. The ~charmer review process ispretty rigerous and as anyone who has run the Gauntlet to attain ~recommendedst ...


Canonical
15 July 2015

Meteorite BI joins the Charm Partner Programme

Cloud and server Article

  Canonical is excited to announce that Meteorite BI has joined the Charm Partner Programme. Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme helps solution providers make best use of Canonical’s universal service modelling tool, Juju; enabling instant workload deployment, integration, and scaling at the click of a button. Meteroite BI will be contrib ...


April Wang
15 July 2015

Celebrate Ubuntu: China Hackathon

Phone and tablet Article

To celebrate the Developer Edition Ubuntu phone launch in China, Canonical organized a “celebrate Ubuntu” hackathon for the phone in Beijing. It was also hosted as part of the on-going China Mobile & Ubuntu Developer Innovation Contest, where all projects that were coded during the hackathon were able to be submitted into the contest afte ...


Jane Silber
13 July 2015

Introducing Anand Krishnan

Cloud and server Article

Canonical’s cloud business continues to grow at great speed. Driven by the adoption of Ubuntu as the preferred operating system at both the infrastructure and guest level, partners and customers alike value the automation, interoperability, ease of use and professional services that we offer. We provide the fastest, most reliable, most up ...


Charles Butler
13 July 2015

Automate DNS with Juju

Cloud and server Article

Announcing Third Party Support for the DNS CharmTo anybody that followed the DNS charmdevelopment last year I had a lofty goal of introducing a third party pluginframework, which allows the user to specify a third party DNS server, andreconfigures ...


Charles Butler
10 July 2015

Unofficial Juju Docker Images

Cloud and server Article

Using Juju in Docker for your projectsEarly this year the juju-solutions team has been experimenting with Juju inDocker – namely for isolation, and portability reasons. The Vagrant image givesa nice isolated and rebuildable environment – however the ...


Maarten Ectors
9 July 2015

Flying mobile base stations

Internet of Things Article

Lime Microsystems builds open source hardware chips to enable any type of wireless communication, called software defined radio. Elre-robotics makes app-enabled open source drones with Snappy Ubuntu Core. Are you able to create flying mobile base stations? That is exactly what Lime did with an Erlecopter. Imagine emergency or military ad- ...