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Canonical
3 January 2019

Mark Shuttleworth on success with OpenStack

Cloud and server Article

As one of the founding members and most popular distributions in OpenStack the conferences, now the Open Infrastructure Summit, is a valuable event that Canonical uses to meet with the open source community. During the final OpenStack Summit, Mark Shuttleworth, CEO, Canonical spoke about success with OpenStack being about the OPEX. Speaki ...

Igor Ljubuncic
3 January 2019

Kata Containers – A form of art

Cloud and server Article

November was a productive month for us. As you’ve already glimpsed in the KDE snaps article, we hosted a Snapcraft Summit in our London offices, during which we worked with engineers from major companies on building snaps. Hailing from Intel, Julio Montes joined us to improve the Kata Containers snap, to make it easier for ...

Alan Pope
27 December 2018

Top Snaps in 2018

Desktop Desktop

With 2018 drawing to a close, and many of us spending with family during the holiday season, I thought we’d take a look back over some of our favourite Linux applications in the Snap Store. Some have been in the store for over a year, and a few landed only recently, but they’re all great. ...

Igor Ljubuncic
27 December 2018

I have a need, a need for snap

Desktop Desktop

Are snaps slow? Or slower than their classic counterparts (DEB or RPM, for instance)? This is a topic that comes up often in online discussions, related to various containerised application formats, including snaps. We thought this would be a good idea to run a detailed experiment to see what kind of numbers we get when ...

Canonical
27 December 2018

The evolution of Canonical at KubeCon

Cloud and server Article

Stephan Fabel, director of products at Canonical spoke to Swapnil Bhartiya from TFIR at KubeCon in Seattle about the evolution of Canonical at KubeCon, the excitement around MicroK8s and Kubernetes announcements.  The full interview can be watched below and can also be found on the TFIR site.  ...

Maximilian Ehlers
21 December 2018

Our Kubernetes deployment pipeline

Desktop Design

A few weeks ago I joined the web and design team here at Canonical, in the Base Squad, which is our backend team. One of the things that we are responsible for is deploying the code to our different staging and production environments. With multiple features being developed simultaneously, bugs being fixed, and some parts ...

Alan Pope
20 December 2018

Ubuntu Core Smart Speaker

Desktop Article

With the holidays coming up, many of us can expect to spend time with our friends and families, often listening to seasonal music, or indeed escaping the seasonal music! Whether you’re joining in or getting away from the crowd, this simple project can help. This is part one of a series of posts where I ...

Anthony Dillon
19 December 2018

Design and Web team summary – 19 December 2018

Cloud and server Article

Welcome to the latest work and updates from the design and web team. Base squad This week, the bulk of our work was on improving our internal system for employee reviews, but we found time to squeeze in a few other things: We also progressed with the initial work for moving our Juju documentation into ...

Alan Griffiths
19 December 2018

Unity8: a project that uses Mir

Desktop Article

Unity8 is a graphical shell targeting a range of devices and form factors including phones, tablets, laptops and desktops. Unity8 uses the facility to customize Mir’s default window management to give its “convergent” experience. In addition to the phones and tablets supported by Ubuntu Touch work is in progress to adapt Unity8 for use on ...

Igor Ljubuncic
15 December 2018

KDE apps at the snap of your fingers

Desktop Article

Are you a Plasma fan? And you want to develop KDE applications? This has just become easier and more fun than ever before. In early November, we hosted a Snapcraft Summit in our London offices, a forward-thinking software workshop attended by major software vendors and Snapcraft engineers working at every level of the stack. Together, ...

Robin Winslow
12 December 2018

How to manage your Git history: Tips for keeping your commits tidy

Desktop Design

One of the things we’re currently working on in the web and design team is a page about writing Git commit messages for our team practices website (I hope to write more about the practices website itself in the coming days). As part of that discussion, we jotted down some quick tips for managing commit ...

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