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Igor Ljubuncic
18 June 2021

How’s my snap faring on different distributions?

Ubuntu Article

The life of an application can roughly be divided into two: everything that happens before it goes live – building, packaging, publication – and then, everything that happens after that milestone. Traditionally, on Linux, developers didn’t always have an easy way of deriving useful numbers on how their software was doing across the distro ...


Gabriel Aguiar Noury
18 June 2021

Mir 2.4, enhancing digital signage and smart screen development

Internet of Things Article

Another cycle brings another release of Mir, with new features and new innovative use cases. For those of you new to Mir, our flexible display server provides a set of libraries and Wayland compositor for building Wayland-based shells with integrated window management. It is widely used in different IoT applications, including digital sig ...


Bill Wear
17 June 2021

Basic DHCP concepts

Ubuntu MAAS

Let’s step back and take a very basic look at DHCP. In fact, let’s look at the analogy of assigning a street address to your house. Usually, this is done by the local 911 dispatch office, or some other central authority. They typically use either a survey map or a latitude, longitude pair to locate ...


Holly Hall
17 June 2021

Two-factor authentication coming to Ubuntu One

Security Article

What is 2-factor authentication (2FA)? Two factor authentication (2FA) increases your account security further than just using a username and password. In addition to a password (the first factor), you need another factor to access your account. A great example to demonstrate this is when you withdraw money from an ATM. To access your ban ...


Peter Mahnke
17 June 2021

Design and Web team summary – 4 June 2021

Ubuntu Design

The web team at Canonical run two-week iterations building and maintaining all of Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Meet the team My name is Beth Collins and I’m a Web Engineer in the Web squad. We work on maintaining Canonical’s sites ...


anastasiavalti
16 June 2021

Canonical presents EdgeX to the community

Internet of Things Article

With a longstanding commitment to Edge and IoT applications, Canonical has historically placed great emphasis on EgdeX – a set of microservices that enable developers to build apps that run at the edge and act as a middleware connecting the things and the cloud . It’s no surprise that Canonical has also been supporting the ...


Omar Ali Amin
15 June 2021

How to manage a 24×7 private cloud with one engineer

Cloud and server Article

How to efficiently deploy and manage a private cloud using Openstack and Kubernetes in a few weeks without spending months on developing a team of cloud experts. ...


Canonical
14 June 2021

Introducing Ubuntu Pro for Google Cloud

Canonical announcements Article

June 14th, 2021: Canonical and Google Cloud today announce Ubuntu Pro on Google Cloud, a new Ubuntu offering available to all Google Cloud users. Ubuntu Pro on Google Cloud allows instant access to security patching covering thousands of open source applications for up to 10 years and critical compliance features essential to running work ...


Gabriel Aguiar Noury
14 June 2021

The State of Robotics – May 2021

Robotics Article

May was another fantastic month for robotics developments. In a continuously growing field, where the opportunities are many and the challenges require innovative solutions, researchers keep leading the way. Here at Canonical, we understand the value of open knowledge and collaboration. So this monthly blog brings some great research, ava ...


Igor Ljubuncic
11 June 2021

What has snapd ever done for other distros?

Ubuntu Article

Snaps are self-contained applications designed with ease of use, security and portability in mind. They bundle their necessary dependencies, so they can work and run without modifications across numerous Linux distributions. How many? More than 40. Yet, often when technology is strongly associated with a particular product, in this case s ...


Jeremie Deray
10 June 2021

Publishing sonar readings with micro-ROS on the Raspberry Pi Pico

Robotics Article

In this post, we will see how to wire up an HC-SR04 range sensor to the Raspberry Pi Pico and publish its readings to the ROS 2 graph using micro-ROS. This builds upon the previous post ‘Getting started with micro-ROS on the Raspberry Pi Pico’. As such, I’d encourage you to read it first if ...