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Anthony Dillon
19 November 2015

Using Vanilla with Jekyll

Ubuntu Development

We’re using NPM as Vanilla’s package manager. Which gives us a number of advantages such as, an easy way to install and update the CSS framework. This all worked fine until we hit an issue with Github Pages. They do not supporting install scripts therefore it is not possible in npm install. Highlighted in this ...


Canonical
19 November 2015

MariaDB the newest member of the Charm Partner Programme

Cloud and server News

Canonical is excited to announce that MariaDB has joined the Charm Partner Programme. Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme helps solution providers make best use of Canonical’s universal service modeling tool, Juju. Juju makes it easy to deliver complete solutions in minutes, on virtually any public or private cloud through the use of Char ...


Canonical
18 November 2015

Charm Partner Programme welcomes Opencell

Ubuntu Article

Canonical is excited to announce that Opencell has joined the Charm Partner Programme (CPP). Canonical’s CPP helps solution providers make best use of Canonical’s universal service modeling tool, Juju; enabling instant workload deployment, integration, and scaling with a click of a mouse. The Juju Charm Store has over 300 cloud based appl ...


Samuel Cozannet
18 November 2015

Help Meteorite BI’s Saiku Reporting become even more awesome!

Cloud and server Article

Our friends over at Meteorite BI are progressing along their path to bring Saiku Reporting to as many users as possible. One of their core targets is to get it integrated into Saiku 4 Core and onto Canonical’s Juju service modelling platform as soon as possible. Now, they need our help to make this happen. Coming ...


Canonical
17 November 2015

Canonical’s Openstack Autopilot dramatically reduces cloud costs

Cloud and server News

Thanks for your interest in Ubuntu OpenStack. Canonical has sunsetted OpenStack Autopilot and replaced it with conjure-up. We welcome you to visit our OpenStack product page to find an Ubuntu OpenStack solution that meets your needs.   Fully automated bare-metal OpenStack deployment and operations tool Intelligent hardware mapping optimis ...


Thibaut Rouffineau
17 November 2015

MagicStick and Ubuntu Core, redefining the PC on stick experience

Desktop Article

MagicStick™ has had a highly successful campaign on Indiegogo for their affordable yet super powerful PC on a stick already reaching 7.5 times its funding objective. They’re now going further by offering Ubuntu Core on MagicStick™ as a way to enjoy a simpler, faster, leaner PC experience on your TV. MagicStick™, a powerful PC on ...


Canonical
17 November 2015

BQ Aquaris Ubuntu Edition phones land in Russia

Phone and tablet News

The BQ Aquaris E5 Ubuntu Edition and shortly the E4.5 Ubuntu Edition to be sold in Russia through through a host of local Russian distributors Phones will come preloaded with a number of scopes specifically developed for the Russian market including big name draws like VKontakte, Yandex, Mail.Ru and Kinopoisk After previous successful lau ...


Adam Stokes
17 November 2015

Extending Juju, Plugin basics in Go

Cloud and server Article

This is a quick introduction on extending Juju with plugins written in Go. What we’ll cover:Setting up your Go environmentGetting the Juju source codeWriting a basic plugin named juju-lyaplugin short for (juju-learnyouaplugin)End result will be a ...


Canonical
16 November 2015

Juju and Remote LXD Host

Cloud and server Article

The team I am a part of at Canonical has been working on implementing a Juju provider for LXD. One of the goals of this provider is to improve the Juju experience when working and developing locally. You can try it yourself, but you will have to build Juju from source, the branch is available ...


Elvi
16 November 2015

Jujucharms.com homepage redesign

Ubuntu User Experience

After many hours of research, testing and never-ending questions about structure, design, aesthetics and function, we’re very happy to announce that Jujucharms has a new homepage! All through this site redesign, our main aim has been to make complex content easy to digest and more fun to read. We’ve strived to create a website that ...


Inayaili de León Persson
16 November 2015

October’s reading list

Ubuntu Notes

Here are the best links shared by the design team in October: Writing to Think How We Fixed Our Icon Problem Writing Developer Job Postings The Stages of Fear Building and Enterprise CSS Framework Project Apollo Archive HoloLens project X-ray Aurous CSS vs SVG: The Final Round(up) Tech For Good Motion UI Accelerated Mobile Pages ...