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5 July 2017

Ubuntu Foundations Development Summary: July 5, 2017

Cloud and server Article

This newsletter is to provide a status update from the Ubuntu Foundations Team. There will also be highlights provided for any interesting subjects the team may be working on. If you would like to reach the Foundations team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-devel channel on freenode. Highlights SRU verification policy change – https://lists ...


Robin Winslow
5 July 2017

Simplifying local development: The ./run executable

Ubuntu User Experience

Canonical’s webteam manage over 18 websites as well as many supporting projects and frameworks. These projects are built with any combination of Python, Ruby, NodeJS, Go, PostgreSQL, MongoDB or OpenStack Swift. We have 9 full-time developers – half the number of websites we have. And naturally some of our projects get a lot of time ...


Quick and easy network configuration with Netplan

Cloud and server Article

Earlier this week I uploaded netplan 0.21 in artful, with SRUs in progress for the stable releases. There are still lots of features coming up, but it’s also already quite useful. You can already use it to describe typical network configurations on desktop and servers, all the way to interesting, complicated setups like bond over ...


elopio
5 July 2017

User acceptance testing of snaps, with Travis CI

Desktop Article

Travis CI offers a great continuous integrationservice for the projects hosted in GitHub. With it you can run tests, deliverartifacts and deploy services on pull requests, when they are merged, or withsome other frecuency.Last week theyupdated the ...


Iain Lane
3 July 2017

Switching from Unity to Gnome-Shell: first challenges

Desktop Article

I work at Canonical, on the desktop team. The team works on Ubuntu Desktop, publishing a release every six months containing the fruits of our efforts — or at least those ones that are ready enough for real people to use. For the next release (out in October), we were given a big task. Switch the desktop ...


Matthew Paul Thomas
3 July 2017

Designing build.snapcraft.io

Ubuntu Featured

Many open-source software developers use GitHub. Let’s make it as easy as possible for them to build and release their code automatically. ...


Sarah Dickinson
3 July 2017

AZLOGICA use Ubuntu Core for customised IoT agricultural solutions

Internet of Things Article

Shrimps are now considered as the most lucrative seafood product with demand growing from consumers due to their high nutritional value. This is reflected in the export figures with the two largest exporters of shrimps, Ecuador and India, seeing increases of 7.6% and 10.8% respectively in the first half of 2016. Due to their perishable ...


Sarah Dickinson
3 July 2017

How Ubuntu helped InnovaPOS revolutionise the vending machine industry

Internet of Things Article

The smart vending machines market is on the rise with estimates of 2.7 million to be sold by 2020 with Asia Pacific predicted to be the fastest growing region with a CAGR of 15% over the same period. It is this opportunity that Spanish company InnovaPOS, founded in 2014, was created to spearhead. Their vision ...


June’s reading list

Ubuntu Notes

Here are the best links shared by the design team in June 2017: How I Create Talks Technical Speaker Starter Kit 4 Things I Know About Pattern Libraries The Road to Burnout is Paved With Context Switching MVP: I Do Not Think That Word Means What You Think it Means What is the difference between ...


David Britton
30 June 2017

Ubuntu Server Development Summary – 30 Jun 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 mailing ...


Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
28 June 2017

Webinar: How to upgrade your OpenStack cloud easily, without downtime

Cloud and server Article

Live webinar It has become commonplace to see some OpenStack users choose to remain on old unsupported versions of OpenStack, forgoing new features and security updates rather than face the disruption, stress and complexity of upgrading. At Canonical we call this a StuckStack, a cloud that cannot or will not be upgraded. In this webinar ...