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Amrisha Prashar
24 March 2015

Origami Unicorn Challenge

Phone and tablet Article

Origami has long been associated with good fortune and represents the visual style for the Ubuntu Phone. We would like to invite you to create your own Origami Unicorn for the chance to win an Ubuntu Phone. The stages to participate include: Create a Unicorn Origami form from a single sheet of paper Take a ...


Canonical
20 March 2015

Installing LXD and the command line tool

Cloud and server Article

Ubuntu desktop and Ubuntu server As LXD evolves quite rapidly, we recommend Ubuntu users use our PPA: add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-lxc/lxd-stable apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade apt-get install lxd The package creates a new “lxd” group which contains all users allowed to talk to lxd over the local unix socket. All members of the “adm ...


Ellen Arnold
20 March 2015

DataStax to join Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme

Cloud and server Article

Canonical are excited to welcome DataStax to its Charm Partner Programme. Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme helps solution providers make best use of Canonical’s cloud orchestration tool, Juju; enabling instant integration, scaling at the click of a button, simple to share blueprint deployments and an easy way to deliver solutions in mi ...


Canonical
19 March 2015

Fairbanks joins Cloud Partner Program

Cloud and server Article

Dutch OpenStack experts, Fairbanks, is the latest organisation to join Canonical’s Cloud Partner Program. Fairbanks becomes another company in Canonical’s ranks of expert partners across Europe focused on reselling Canonical’s business proposition including Ubuntu Advantage, Ubuntu OpenStack, BootStack and tools like MAAS, Juju and Landsc ...


Canonical
19 March 2015

Internet of Things: Lime Microsystems

Internet of Things Article

What happens when you combine Snappy Ubuntu Core with innovative and highly programmable radio solutions from Lime Microsystems? You provide developers with a foundation on which to create and implement exciting and novel applications for the wireless infrastructure of the future. Lime Micro has set about providing access to highly progra ...


Canonical
17 March 2015

UK Government issues Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Security Guidance

Desktop News

CESG, the National Technical Authority for Information Assurance (IA) within the UK Government, have released their End User Devices Guidance for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. While primarily aimed at government institutions working with information at the OFFICIAL security classification, this security guidance is based around providing realistic an ...


Canonical
16 March 2015

MWC 2015: a week to remember

Cloud and server Article

As the lights go down on Mobile World Congress 2015, we’ve taken a bit of time to reflect on what has become one of our favourite events in the conference calender. And what a week it was! Congress touched every team within Canoncial and so here’s a bit of insight into what we did there: ...


Canonical
16 March 2015

Exploring Juju with Project Calico

Cloud and server Article

Installing OpenStack is non-trivial. You need to install a large number of packages across a number of machines, get all the configuration synchronized so that all those components can talk to each other, and then hope you didn’t make a typo or other form of error that leads to a tricky-to-debug misbehaviour in OpenStack. For ...


Canonical
16 March 2015

Internet of Things: 2lemetry

Cloud and server Article

Ubuntu Core allows you to easily and securely deploy an app to any number of devices. But all those devices need a place to connect to in order to transmit and receive data. 2lemetry is the perfect fit, providing a secure, scalable cloud platform for all of your devices. Using the combination of Ubuntu and ...


Canonical
13 March 2015

Codership joins growing OpenStack Interoperability Lab community

Cloud and server Article

Canonical is pleased to welcome Codership, creator of database clustering technology, Galera, to our OpenStack Interoperability Lab (OIL) program. Codership provides an essential building block for high availability databases in an OpenStack cloud environment. OpenStack provides a variety of excellent technology choices to enterprises loo ...


Robin Winslow
11 March 2015

A seachange in front-end best practice (but not for a while)

Ubuntu Featured

Despite some reservations, it looks like HTTP/2 is very definitely the future of the Internet. Speed improvements HTTP/2 may not be the perfect standard, but it will bring with it many long-awaited speed improvements to internet communication: Sending of many different resources in the first response Multiplexing requests to prevent block ...