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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 ...


Will Grant
9 June 2021

The story of a feature: “View my invoices”

Design Article

In this blog post, I’ll do a deep dive into the process of designing a small feature on ubuntu.com – from the original need, right through the design phase until it’s handed over to engineering. It intends to give you a good high-level overview of how we do user experience (UX) design at Canonical on ...


Canonical
8 June 2021

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology taps Canonical for cloud computing overhaul

Canonical announcements Article

New OpenStack and Kubernetes deployments improve computing performance for researchers, ease management pains for IT staff SAUDI ARABIA, June 8, 2021 — Canonical, the publisher ofUbuntu, announced today that it is working with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), a postgraduate university in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, on ...


anastasiavalti
7 June 2021

How to accelerate migration towards NFV with Open Source MANO

Telecommunications Article

Download whitepaper Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Cloud native network functions continue to draw immense attention from the telecom sector. From the beginning, virtualisation is trying to fulfill the promises of reducing CapEx and OpEx by decoupling Network Functions from the underlying infrastructure and ensuring flexibility ...


Igor Ljubuncic
4 June 2021

The magic behind snap interfaces

Ubuntu Article

Snaps are confined, self-contained applications, designed with portability and security in mind. By default, strictly confined snaps run in isolation, with minimal access to system resources. For instance, they cannot access home, network, audio, or display. To make their snaps usable, developers and publishers can declare a set of interf ...


Gabriel Aguiar Noury
3 June 2021

ROS Kinetic migration and its challenges – A community perspective.

Robotics Article

ROS Kinetic has come to EOL. We have discussed the impact of EOL in the past, but with its final sync out on May 12th, ROS Kinetic is no longer supported. Together with Ubuntu Xenial, both distributions will no longer receive security updates or bug fixes.  ROS second LTS release became the largest rosdistro with ...


Andreea Munteanu
2 June 2021

Kubernetes and Ubuntu in Italy

Ubuntu Article

The Italian version of the blog post is also available Multi-cloud infrastructure At the beginning of May, the speakers & moderators of the event organized by Canonical went to the Italian virtual space and enjoyed the presence of experts from DXC, GARR, and Canonical, who shared with us their knowledge about multi-cloud infrastructure. D ...


Canonical
28 May 2021

How to run ECS Anywhere workloads using Ubuntu on any infrastructure

Cloud and server Article

Using Ubuntu for your ECS clusters on-prem or elsewhere will allow you to run your ECS Anywhere workloads with optimal performance everywhere you need it. ...


Igor Ljubuncic
28 May 2021

Hey snap, where’s my data?

Desktop Article

Snaps are self-contained applications, isolated from the underlying operating systems by several layers of confinement. This mechanism introduces security benefits, but it may also create confusion for people who are less familiar with how snaps work and behave, especially when it comes to filesystem access. Today, we’d like to clarify so ...