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Will Cooke
22 September 2017

Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: September 22, 2017

Desktop Article

We’re less than a week away from Final Beta! It seems to have come round very quickly this cycle. Next week we’re at the Ubuntu Rally in New York City where we will be putting the finishing touches to the beta. In the meantime, here’s a quick rundown on what happened this week: GNOME The ...


Canonical
21 September 2017

Microsoft and Canonical Increase Velocity with Azure Tailored Kernel

Cloud and server Article

Ubuntu has long been a popular choice for Linux instances on Azure.  Our ongoing partnership with Microsoft has brought forth great results, such as the support of the latest Azure features, Ubuntu underlying SQL Server instances, bash on Windows, Ubuntu containers with Hyper-V Isolation on Windows 10 and Windows Servers, and much more. C ...


Canonical
21 September 2017

Kubernetes Snaps: The Quick Version

Cloud and server Article

This article originally appeared on George Kraft’s blog When we built the Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes (CDK), one of our goals was to provide snap packages for the various Kubernetes clients and services: kubectl, kube-apiserver, kubelet, etc. While we mainly built the snaps for use in CDK, they are freely available to use for oth ...


Canonical
21 September 2017

Security Team Weekly Summary: September 21, 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
20 September 2017

Kernel Team Summary – September 20, 2017

Cloud and server Article

September 13 through September 18 Development (Artful / 17.10) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtfulAardvark/ReleaseSchedule Important upcoming dates: Final Beta – Sept 28 (~1 week away) Kernel Freeze – Oct 5 (~2 weeks away) Final Freeze – Oct 12 (~3 weeks away) Ubuntu 17.10 – Oct 19 (~4 weeks away) We intend to target a 4.13 kernel for the Ubu ...


Joshua Powers
20 September 2017

Mining Ethereum on Ubuntu with a GTX 1070

Cloud and server Article

EthereumEthereum has appeared more and more in the news and rightfully so. Ethereum recently set another transaction record of 400,000 transactions in a single day. Then the recent drama of the Bitcoin split has caused even more attention to Ethereum as an alternative. If you are unfamiliar with other Blockchain or Ethereum check out the ...


David Britton
19 September 2017

Ubuntu Server Development Summary – 19 Sep 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 ...


Dustin Kirkland
19 September 2017

Results of the Ubuntu Desktop Applications Survey

Desktop Article

I had the distinct honor to deliver the closing keynote of the UbuCon Europe conference in Paris a few weeks ago.  First off — what a beautiful conference and venue!  Kudos to the organizers who really put together a truly remarkable event. ...


Canonical
19 September 2017

Webinar: OpenStack Pike is here, what’s new?

Cloud and server Article

Sign up for our new webinar about the Canonical OpenStack Pike release. Join us to learn about the new features and how to upgrade from Ocata to Pike using OpenStack Charms.   ...


Canonical
18 September 2017

MAAS 2.3.0 Alpha 3 release!

Cloud and server Article

MAAS 2.3.0 (alpha3)New Features & ImprovementsHardware Testing (backend only)MAAS has now introduced an improved hardware testing framework. This new framework allows MAAS to test individual components of a single machine, as well as providing better feedback to the user for each of those tests. This feature has introduced:Ability to defi ...


Stéphane Graber
18 September 2017

LXD: Weekly Status #15

Cloud and server Article

Introduction This week has been pretty quiet as far as upstream changes since half the team was attending the Open Source Summity, the Linux Plumbers Conference and the Linux Security Summit in Los Angeles, California. We got to talk with other container runtime maintainers, kernel developers and users, having a lot of very productive dis ...