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David Britton
15 August 2017

Ubuntu Server Development Summary – 15 Aug 2017

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 ...


Sergio Schvezov
15 August 2017

Week 32 In Snapcraft

Desktop Article

Welcome to the weekly development notes for snapcraft! This covers work from August 7 until August 13 of 2017. Development in master The theme of code landing into master this week was mostly about robotics, from polishing and refactoring to ease the development of ROS 2 support (ament plugin) as well as supporting new features. Aside ...


Stéphane Graber
14 August 2017

LXD: Weekly Status #10

Cloud and server Article

Debconf17 Christian Brauner (@brauner) and Stéphane Graber (@stgraber) were attending Debconf17 in Montreal.We had the opportunity to catch up with colleagues, friends and users. Stéphane gave a talk about LXD and system containers on Debian, a recording is available: http://gemmei.ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/debian-meetings/2017/debconf17/an-intr ...


Inayaili de León Persson
14 August 2017

Vanilla Framework has a new website

Ubuntu Featured

We’re happy to announce the long overdue Vanilla Framework website, where you can find all the relevant links and resources needed to start using Vanilla.   The homepage of vanillaframework.io   When you visit the new site, you will also see the new Vanilla logo, which follows the same visual principles as other logos within ...


Will Cooke
11 August 2017

Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: August 11, 2017

Desktop News

GUADEC The GNOME conference happened last week with good representation from Ubuntu. The spirit was good and the discussions constructive. Decisions were made, details can be read on https://didrocks.fr/2017/08/03/ubuntu–guadec-2017-and-plans-for-gnome-shell-migration/ GNOME Shell We’re preparing to make the changes described above in the ...


Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre
11 August 2017

How to sign things for Secure Boot

Desktop Article

Secure Boot signing The whole concept of Secure Boot requires that there exists a trust chain, from the very first thing loaded by the hardware (the firmware code), all the way through to the last things loaded by the operating system as part of the kernel: the modules. In other words, not just the firmware ...


Canonical
10 August 2017

Security Team Weekly Summary: August 10, 2017

Cloud and server Article

The Security Team weekly reports are intended to be very short summaries of the Security Team’s weekly activities. If you would like to reach the Security Team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-hardened channel on FreeNode. Alternatively, you can mail the Ubuntu Hardened mailing list at: ubuntu-hardened@lists.ubuntu.com During the last week ...


Canonical
10 August 2017

Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes: Dev Summary 2017 (Week 32)

Cloud and server Article

August 4th concluded our most recent development sprint on the Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes (CDK). Here are some highlights: Testing & Planning CDK offline testing plan. We wrote up a plan for testing CDK in an environment where there is no (or severely limited) egress internet access. The end goal is to ensure that CDK can be dep ...


Thibaut Rouffineau
10 August 2017

Fresh Snaps from July 2017

Cloud and server Article

If you’re thinking July = holidays… think again! This month’s pick of the top snaps is all about productivity. Graphic design tools, web code editor, Go IDE, JSON configuration, blockchain wallet and Openstack… Ready for an active summer? If the term “snaps” doesn’t ring a bell, they are a new way for developers to package ...


Canonical
9 August 2017

Weekly Kernel Development Summary – Aug 9, 2017

Cloud and server Article

This is the Ubuntu Kernel Team highlights and status for the week. If you would like to reach the kernel team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-kernel channel on FreeNode. Alternatively, you can mail the Ubuntu Kernel Team mailing list at: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com. Highlights Add virtualbox guest driver to artful 4.13 kernel Start work ...


Canonical
9 August 2017

git ubuntu clone

Cloud and server Article

This is the second post in a collaborative series between Robie Basak and myself to introduce (more formally) git ubuntuto a broader audience. There is an index of all our planned posts in the first post. As mentioned there, it is important to keep in mind that the tooling and implementation are still highly experimental. In this post, we ...