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Sarah Dickinson
30 October 2017

Using snaps to advance robotics development

Internet of Things Article

Robotics development has seen great expansion in recent years. Some roboticists strongly believe that this expansion is not only due to the rise of inexpensive sensors and actuators but also to the new software trends enabling code sharing and reuse at a much larger scale than ever before. We spoke to Mohamed Saad Ibn Seddik, ...


Will Cooke
27 October 2017

Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: GNOME Fixes & New Snaps

Desktop Article

I’ll be starting the weekly round-up posts again now that the release is out and 18.04 is getting under way. At this early stage in the development cycle we’re spending a week or so tidying up the loose ends from 17.10, SRUing the important fixes that we’ve found, getting ready to sync new packages from ...


Canonical
26 October 2017

Security Team Weekly Summary: October 26, 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
26 October 2017

Glowing Bear and Weechat in Kubernetes with Helm

Cloud and server Article

This article originally appeared on Mike Wilson’s blog Having a renewed interest in irc again, I found that the best option to stay in touch is to keep Weechat running all the time and relaying the chat to Glowing Bear. This allows for notifications on my phone of mentions and being able to see missed chat when away ...


Sarah Dickinson
26 October 2017

Ubuntu Core and snaps for easy IoT deployment

Desktop Article

Thinger.io has grown to over 10,000 registered users, but with such growing demand, they needed a quicker way to deliver their systems and applications. With a philosophy of using flexible and open technologies, Thinger.io discovered snaps as their ideal solution. ...


Canonical
25 October 2017

Kernel Team Summary – October 25, 2017

Cloud and server Article

October 17 through October 23 Development (18.04) Every 6 months the Ubuntu Kernel Team is tasked to pick the kernel to be used in the next release. This is a difficult thing to do because we don’t definitively know what will be going into the upstream kernel over the next 6 months nor the quality ...


David Britton
24 October 2017

Ubuntu Server Development Summary – 24 Oct 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 ...


Ken VanDine
24 October 2017

Latest and greatest versions of GNOME apps on YOUR desktop!

Desktop Article

Want to run the latest GNOME applications on Ubuntu 14.04, 16.04 and 17.10? Actually, not just Ubuntu, many other distributions such as Fedora, Linux Mint and Debian that support snap. We have now packaged a pretty extensive list of the latest GNOME apps as snaps and provided them in the Snap store. Any of these snaps ...


Sarah Dickinson
24 October 2017

Cinergy makes significant digital signage savings using Ubuntu Core

Internet of Things Article

Based in Dallas, Texas, Cinergy operates a chain of three cinema entertainment centres (CECs) with ambitious expansion plans. CECs are an all in one entertainment venue incorporating cinemas, restaurants, bowling and other activities such as escape rooms. With so many activities to communicate including the latest promotions and film time ...


Stéphane Graber
23 October 2017

LXD Weekly Status #20: Authentication, Conferences & More

Cloud and server Article

Introduction This week was busy with stable releases. All in all, we released: LXD 2.19 (feature release) LXC 1.0.11 (bugfix release) LXC 2.0.9 (bugfix release) LXC 2.1.1 (bugfix release) LXCFS 2.0.8 (bugfix release) LXD 2.0.11 (bugfix release) We’ve also merged support for external authentication in LXD, through support of macaroon authe ...


Canonical
19 October 2017

Ubuntu 17.10 releases with GNOME, Kubernetes 1.8 & minimal base images

Canonical announcements News

19th October, London, UK: Canonical today announced the release of Ubuntu 17.10 featuring a new GNOME desktop on Wayland, and new versions of KDE, MATE and Budgie to suit a wide range of tastes. On the cloud, 17.10 brings Kubernetes 1.8 for hyper-elastic container operations, and minimal base images for containers. This is the 27th releas ...