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Canonical
1 August 2017

Snap Updates are getting smaller, here’s why:

Cloud and server Article

This is a guest post by Thomi Richards. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com One of the nicest features of snap packages is that it allows publishers to control which dependencies are shipped with their application: It’s endlessly frustrating to find that your users are experiencing bro ...


Sarah Dickinson
31 July 2017

How to pick a winning IoT business model – Infographic

Internet of Things Article

The potential for IoT is huge but many businesses are still grappling with how it can benefit their organisation and how exactly to get started. Canonical recently surveyed over 360 IoT professionals to examine their current and future challenges plus opportunities that exist for organisations looking to become IoT ready. This infographic ...


Joshua Powers
28 July 2017

Ubuntu Server Development Summary – 28 Jul 2017

Ubuntu Article

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 mailing list. Spotlight: Developing ...


Will Cooke
28 July 2017

Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: July 28, 2017

Desktop Article

Here’s the latest in the world of Desktop: GNOME We’ve been looking at ways to port the feature of allowing the sound to go above 100%. This is needed because some computers (e.g. Thinkpad X220) have a fairly low volume at 100% and so adding some software amplification is a useful addition. While this does ...


Canonical
28 July 2017

The Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes: Development Summary #4

Cloud and server Article

This blog was originally posted by Tim Van Steenburgh July 21st concluded our most recent development sprint on the Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes (CDK). Here’s a look at what we did. Fixes and Improvements Check out the full list on GitHub. Here are some notables: Made load balancer port configurable Changed default –service-cluste ...


Canonical
28 July 2017

MAAS Development Summary – July 30th 2017

Cloud and server Article

Hello MAASters! The MAAS development summaries are back!The past three weeks the team has been made good progress on three main areas, the development of 2.3, maintenance for 2.2, and out new and improved python library (libmaas).MAAS 2.3 (current development release)The first official MAAS 2.3 release has been prepared. It is currently u ...



27 July 2017

Weekly Kernel Development Summary – Wed July 27, 2017

Cloud and server Article

This is the Ubuntu Kernel Team highlights and status for the week. If you would like to reach the kernel team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-kernel channel on FreeNode. Alternatively, you can mail the Ubuntu Kernel Team mailing list at: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com. Highlights The upstream stable releases, 4.4.77 and 4.4.78, have been ap ...


Adam Stokes
27 July 2017

Conjure-up dev summary highlights: screen ordering and improved deploy

Cloud and server Article

In this latest update we’ve moved all steps to be completed prior to any of those longer blocking tasks and made deployments more resilient. ...


ss: another way to get socket statistics

Cloud and server Article

In an earlier blog post I mentioned ss, another tool that comes with the iproute2 package and allows you to query statistics about sockets. The same thing that can be done with netstat, with the added benefit that it is typically a little bit faster, and shorter to type. Just ss by default will display much the same thing as netstat, ...


Will Cooke
24 July 2017

Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: July 24, 2017

Desktop Article

GNOME We’re working on adding captive portal detection to Artful. We think it would be good if there were an option in the privacy settings to enable or disable this. We’ve done some initial work as preparation – some patches have been submitted to Network Manager’s upstream to enable an option to be created. They are currently awaiting r ...


Robie Basak
24 July 2017

Developing Ubuntu using git

Cloud and server Article

Back in 2014, I published some information and tooling on using git for Ubuntudevelopment,even though most Ubuntu development wasn’t done with git at the time.Three years on, this work has expanded significantly. Most of the server teamis using git for daily work when touching Ubuntu packaging. We have expandedour tooling. With the signif ...