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Joseph Williams
20 October 2016

Working to make Juju more accessible

Ubuntu Notes

In the middle of July the Juju team got together to work towards making Juju more accessible. For now the aim was to reach Level AA compliant, with the intention of reaching AAA in the future. We started by reading through the W3C accessibility guidelines and distilling each principle into sentences that made sense to ...


Grazina Borosko
20 October 2016

Download Ubuntu Yakkety Yak 16.10 wallpaper

Ubuntu Featured

The Yakkety Yak 16.10 is released and now you can download the new wallpaper by clicking here. It’s the latest part of the set for the Ubuntu 2016 releases following Xenial Xerus. You can read about our wallpaper visual design process here. Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak (light version) ...


Tom Callway
20 October 2016

Live kernel patching from Canonical now available for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Cloud and server Article

We are delighted to announce the availability of a new service for Ubuntu which any user can enable on their current installations – the Canonical Livepatch Service. This new live kernel patching service can be used on any Ubuntu 16.04 LTS system (using the generic Linux 4.4 kernel) to minimise unplanned downtime and maintain the ...


Canonical
19 October 2016

DataArt to deploy Juju for “Big Software” collaboration

Cloud and server News

DataArt to deploy Juju for “Big Software” collaboration and faster project delivery Signed Charm Author partnership and SI extends partnership Juju Charm Ecosystem will be used in DataArt NFV Telco and Enterprise deployments to speed up project delivery DataArt will provide expertise and contribute to the development of Juju Charms NEW YO ...


Canonical
17 October 2016

Canonical and ARM collaborate on OpenStack

Canonical announcements News

Canonical and ARM collaborate to offer commercial availability of Ubuntu OpenStack and Ceph for 64-bit ARM-based servers Availability of Ubuntu OpenStack and Ceph support included with Canonical’s Ubuntu Advantage enterprise-grade offering Partnership extends Canonical’s support for ARM server which dates back to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS CAMBRIDG ...


Will Cooke
13 October 2016

Unity 8 preview session in Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak

Desktop Article

Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak has landed and brings with it the Unity 8 technical preview desktop session. Unity 8 has been the face of the Ubuntu phone and tablet for a few years and has quickly evolved its convergence feature set to allow it to work seamlessly between form factors such as phones, tablets and ...


Canonical
13 October 2016

Canonical releases Ubuntu 16.10

Canonical announcements News

Ubuntu 16.10 released with Hybrid Cloud Operations and Unity 8 developer preview, from Canonical MAAS 2.0 delivers robust, highly-available IPAM and bare-metal provisioning Hybrid cloud operations with Juju 2.0 Developer preview of Unity 8 includes desktop, tablet and phone UX convergence OpenStack Newton with secure bare metal performanc ...


Tom Macfarlane
12 October 2016

Ubuntu Core

Ubuntu Featured

Recently the brand team designed new logos for Core and Ubuntu Core. Both of which will replace the existing Snappy logo and bring consistency across all Ubuntu Core branding, online and in print.     Guidelines for use Core Use the Core logo when the Ubuntu logo or the word Ubuntu appears within the same field of vision. ...


Canonical
12 October 2016

Carleton University creates Research Cloud with Ubuntu OpenStack, IBM

Canonical announcements News

Carleton University Creates Campus Research Cloud with Ubuntu OpenStack running on IBM Power Systems Carleton Research Cloud offers rapid, self-service POWER compute resources  for faster processing of scientific inquiries Canonical’s OpenStack is available on all IBM server platforms Juju and MAAS provide bare metal deployment and operat ...


Inayaili de León Persson
12 October 2016

A week in Vancouver with the Landscape team

Ubuntu Design

Earlier this month Peter and I headed to Vancouver to participate in a week-long Landscape sprint. The main goals of the sprint were to review the work that had been done in the past 6 months, and plan for the following cycle. IRL Landscape is a totally distributed team, so having regular face-to-face time throughout ...


didrocks
7 October 2016

The new Ubuntu Core 16 beta image is out!

Internet of Things Article

The Snappy team is happy to announce the Feature Freeze of Ubuntu Core 16, which means all the major features planned for the stable series 16 image have landed, and the upcoming weeks will consist exclusively of stabilization and polishing. Ubuntu Core is an operating system entirely based on snaps. Even the foundation, such as ...