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Joshua Powers
20 September 2017

Mining Ethereum on Ubuntu with a GTX 1070

Cloud and server Article

EthereumEthereum has appeared more and more in the news and rightfully so. Ethereum recently set another transaction record of 400,000 transactions in a single day. Then the recent drama of the Bitcoin split has caused even more attention to Ethereum as an alternative. If you are unfamiliar with other Blockchain or Ethereum check out the ...


David Britton
19 September 2017

Ubuntu Server Development Summary – 19 Sep 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 ...


Dustin Kirkland
19 September 2017

Results of the Ubuntu Desktop Applications Survey

Desktop Article

I had the distinct honor to deliver the closing keynote of the UbuCon Europe conference in Paris a few weeks ago.  First off — what a beautiful conference and venue!  Kudos to the organizers who really put together a truly remarkable event. ...


Canonical
19 September 2017

Webinar: OpenStack Pike is here, what’s new?

Cloud and server Article

Sign up for our new webinar about the Canonical OpenStack Pike release. Join us to learn about the new features and how to upgrade from Ocata to Pike using OpenStack Charms.   ...


Canonical
18 September 2017

MAAS 2.3.0 Alpha 3 release!

Cloud and server Article

MAAS 2.3.0 (alpha3)New Features & ImprovementsHardware Testing (backend only)MAAS has now introduced an improved hardware testing framework. This new framework allows MAAS to test individual components of a single machine, as well as providing better feedback to the user for each of those tests. This feature has introduced:Ability to defi ...


Stéphane Graber
18 September 2017

LXD: Weekly Status #15

Cloud and server Article

Introduction This week has been pretty quiet as far as upstream changes since half the team was attending the Open Source Summity, the Linux Plumbers Conference and the Linux Security Summit in Los Angeles, California. We got to talk with other container runtime maintainers, kernel developers and users, having a lot of very productive dis ...


Will Cooke
15 September 2017

Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: September 15, 2017

Desktop News

A fairly short update this week as we’re in bug fixing mode ahead of final beta in a couple of weeks. GNOME This week saw the release of GNOME 3.26, and we’re ready to ship it in 17.10. This will bring new versions of the core applications and new features as described in the GNOME ...


Canonical
14 September 2017

Security Team Weekly Summary: September 14, 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
13 September 2017

Kernel Team Summary – September 13, 2017

Cloud and server Article

September 05 through September 12 Development (Artful / 17.10) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtfulAardvark/ReleaseSchedule Important upcoming dates: Final Beta – Sept 28 (~2 weeks away) Kernel Freeze – Oct 5 (~3 weeks away) Final Freeze – Oct 12 (~4 weeks away) Ubuntu 17.10 – Oct 19 (~5 weeks away) We intend to target a 4.13 kernel for the Ub ...


Dustin Kirkland
13 September 2017

Running Ubuntu Containers with Hyper-V Isolation on Windows

Cloud and server Article

Canonical and Microsoft have teamed up to deliver an truly special experience — running Ubuntu containers with Hyper-V Isolation on Windows 10 and Windows Servers! We have published a fantastic tutorial at https://ubu.one/UhyperV, with screenshots and easy-to-follow instructions.  You should be up and running in minutes! Follow that tutor ...


Will Cooke
13 September 2017

Congratulations to GNOME on the release of 3.26

Desktop Article

   From everyone at Ubuntu, our hearty congratulations and thanks for the 3.26 release. As you’re no doubt aware by now the next release of Ubuntu, the Artful Aardvark, is only a few short weeks away and will bring the latest GNOME desktop environment with it. We’d planned to ship 3.26 from the beginning of ...