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It’s a special this month. Instead of our round-up of desktop snaps, we’re focusing on KDE! 8 KDE snaps written in January have been selected from a Tetris-like game to an education platform on countries. To recap for those of you that may not know, snaps are a new way for developers to package their

When I talk about Ubuntu and Kubernetes, and how we deploy the latter at Canonical using Juju, the main question I get is: Can you deploy in an existing infrastructure? Often, existing infrastructure means the VPC and/or subnets that I have been allocated to do my work on AWS. What is better than a little

The Ubuntu Community UBports has one mission: to have the open source software Ubuntu on every device, starting with smartphones. UBports’ actions are based on collaborative development where developers are putting Ubuntu on different smartphones. During the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona end of February UBports will show a very speci

Anyone using the internet in Europe and the US on 21st October last year experienced what economists call an externality. It arrived in the form of a massive 1.2 Tbps DDoS attack on Dyn, a US-based internet infrastructure company. This, in turn, triggered outages at multiple sites – including PayPal, Twitter, Amazon and Netflix. The

1) Smart cities: revenue generating fountains What if instead of being a cost to cities, fountains become a revenue generator? Crazy idea? Just put the same coin accepting mechanism you find in vending machines and allow tourists to switch the fountain on for 30 seconds to get the ideal photo taken. But why not put

Welcome to the first edition of 2017. In this issue we showcase what you can expect from us and invite you to meet with us at Mobile World Congress if you’re planning to be in Barcelona. We share our latest eBook on server provisioning and what Network Admins and IT Pros need to know to

Hello snapcrafters! We are pleased to announce the release of version 2.26 of snapcraft has been released: https://launchpad.net/snapcraft/+milestone/2.26 Contributions This release has seen some contributions from outside of the snapcraft core team, so we want to give a shout out to these folks, here’s a team thank you for: Björn Tilleni

The Nextcloud box is a private cloud and IoT solution for home users, giving consumers a way to take back control over their personal data. It’s an app-enabled home gateway and the first Ubuntu-Core-enabled consumer device. Snaps and Ubuntu Core are key enablers of the “out-of-the-box” solution, sustainable auto-update and security functi

Please note: this blog post is over 5 years old and is out of date. Scriptlets have been superseded by Overrides. If you have snapped an application, or tried to snap an application, you know that Snapcraft heavily depends on built-in plugins for specific build systems and that it provides a large array of choices

Here are the best links shared by the design team during the first month of 2017: A Guide to 2017 Conferences Information Literacy Is a Design Problem Pattern patter. CLARK FROM INVISION, FOREVER! The Imbalance of Culture Fit a big list of good news from 2016 Calculate the ideal height of your ergonomic desk, chair

The Raspberry Pi Foundation released a long awaited version of their Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3. The great news is that you get 4GB storage, 1GB memory and the same processor as the Raspberry Pi 3 for $30. This means that it now becomes a real solution for anybody wanting to build industrial products and

LONDON, U.K. – 30 January, 2017 – Nearly half (48%) of citizens remain unaware that their connected devices could be infiltrated and used to conduct a cyber attack. That’s according to a new IoT security whitepaper which was published today by Canonical – the makers of Ubuntu. The report, which includes research from over 2,000

I don’t know if you have ever seen one of the Orange Boxes from Canonical These are really sleek machines. They contain 10 Intel NUCs, plus an 11th one for the management. They are used as a demonstration tool for big software stacks such as OpenStack, Hadoop, and, of course, Kubernetes. They are freely available

We are happy to announce that a new version of Ubuntu Core, based on snapd 2.21, has been released to the stable snaps channel yesterday. As with any stable release, your Ubuntu Core devices will update and reboot automatically. If you are using snaps on the desktop, the release will reach you through a snapd

The market for drones is exploding as businesses and individuals embrace them. The global market for commercial applications of drone technology will balloon to as much as $127 billion by 2020 up from £2billion today (PWC.) Aerotenna is one of those innovators making this vision a reality. Aerotenna’s award-winning technology seeks to sol

Previous Robot Operating System (ROS) releases only supported i386, amd64, and armhf. I even tried building ROS Indigo from source for arm64 about a year ago, but ran into dependency issues with a missing sbcl. Well, with surprisingly little fanfare, ROS Kinetic was released with support for arm64 in their prebuilt archive! I thought it