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Sarah Dickinson
13 November 2020

10 years and 10 million cores: charting OpenStack’s greatest achievements

Ubuntu Article

Technology anniversaries have become more commonplace in recent years. The iPhone at 10 years old, indeed Canonical itself turned 15 last year. Here though, we want to look at OpenStack reaching double figures this year.  Starting off as a joint project between NASA and Rackspace in 2010, over 500 companies have now joined the OpenStack ...


Lech Sandecki
11 November 2020

Less than 6 months to Ubuntu 16.04 ESM: 6 things to prepare

Apps Article

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial Xerus will enter the extended security maintenance (ESM) period in April 2021. This article explains the ESM period and provides a guide for six key considerations when planning a migration path from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Contact us with your ESM questions What is ESM? Every Ubuntu Long Term Support (LTS) release ...


Andreea Munteanu
10 November 2020

Open Operators Training Day hosted by Canonical: a co-located KubeCon event

Ubuntu Article

Register for Operators Day Date: Tuesday, November 17Registration Fees: Complimentary KubeCon NA is just around the corner and, as always, we aim to give back to the community in any way we can. That’s why, in the context of the upcoming KubeCon, we’re hosting a full-day training on operators, led by Canonical’s engineers. The Open ...


Anthony Dillon
10 November 2020

Design and Web team summary – 10th November 2020

Design Design

The web team here at Canonical run two-week iterations. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Meet the team Hi, my name is Long. I’ve recently joined Canonical on the Web and Design team as a Lead Visual Designer. Joining Canonical during this weird time that we’re all going ...


Canonical
10 November 2020

Malawi’s TNM selects Canonical’s Charmed OpenStack to help lead virtualisation charge

Canonical announcements Article

10 November 2020 – Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, today announced that its Charmed OpenStack, an open source private cloud solution that allows businesses to control large pools of computer, storage and networking in a datacentre, has been selected by Telekom Networks Malawi Plc (TNM), to modernise and virtualise its entire telecommu ...


sidfaber
9 November 2020

ROS 2 on Kubernetes: a simple talker and listener setup

Cloud and server Article

Kubernetes and ROS make a great match, but ROS2 can be tricky to set up. In this post we demonstrate a scalable system with MicroK8s on Ubuntu. ...


Galem KAYO
8 November 2020

Edge-native Linux

Internet of Things Article

Tech innovators use Linux to create intelligent devices for homes, factories, buildings, cities or vehicles etc… These things are deployed at the edge, in privacy sensitive or business critical environments. They require ever more compute to run ever smarter applications. A Linux distribution engineered for embedded devices running highly ...


sidfaber
6 November 2020

The State of Robotics – October 2020

Robotics Article

This post marks the one year anniversary of the Ubuntu Robotics newsletter: the place we showcase our work and discussing cool robotics happenings. ...


Igor Ljubuncic
5 November 2020

The Hunt for Rogue Time – How we investigated and solved the Chromium snap slow startup problem

Desktop Article

In October, we shared a blog post detailing significant snap startup time improvements due to the use of a new compression algorithm. In that article, we focused on the cold and hot application startups, but we did not delve much into the first-run setup scenario. While running our tests, we observed a rather interesting phenomenon, ...


anastasiavalti
5 November 2020

Ubuntu at ROS World 2020: Learn how to do more for your robot

Robotics Article

Come and connect with the Ubuntu robotics team on November 12th to answer all of your questions. This is the first time ROSCon has ever been virtual and is the first time it’s ever been free to attend, so we’re looking forward to seeing tons of new faces! We have ROS experts and field engineers ready and waiting to talk. ...


Canonical
5 November 2020

MTS selects OpenStack and Canonical for next-generation cloud infrastructure

Cloud and server Article

5th November, 2020: MOSCOW, Russia – MTS (NYSE:MBT; MOEX:MTSS), Russia’s largest mobile operator and a leading provider of media and digital services, announces the selection of Canonical’s Charmed OpenStack to power the company’s next-generation cloud infrastructure. MTS plans to leverage Charmed OpenStack’s advanced lifecycle management ...