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bethcollins
17 March 2022

How we implemented an interactive Live Demo Box

Design Article

The Vanilla squad recently spent a two week sprint prototyping an interactive live demo box. We were tasked with coming up with a proof of concept, to enable demoing of each variant of our examples dynamically. A few guest developers were able to joined us, which meant four of us were able to dedicate a ...


Igor Ljubuncic
17 March 2022

KDE snaps performance revving up

Ubuntu Article

Speed, or rather, responsiveness is an essential part of the software usage experience. This applies to every technology and domain, snaps included. Indeed, when it comes to snaps, the equation is a bit more complicated and slightly less straightforward because snaps are packaged as compressed, standalone applications and wrapped in a num ...


Canonical
16 March 2022

A new look for the Circle of Friends

Canonical announcements Article

The Circle of Friends is getting an update! Discover the new Ubuntu logo and the journey behind it. ...


Philip Williams
16 March 2022

Cloud Adjacent Storage

Ceph Article

What is cloud adjacent storage? Put simply, cloud adjacent storage is just a privately owned and operated storage system, within network reach of a cloud provider’s region, but without the pay-as-you-grow and access charges found in public clouds. Why is cloud adjacent storage a better choice than public cloud storage? Public clouds were ...


Miona Aleksic
15 March 2022

What are Linux containers?

Cloud and server Article

This blog explains what are Linux containers, how they differ from application containers, and when should you use them. ...


Peter Mahnke
11 March 2022

Design and Web team summary – 11 March 2022

Design Design

The Web and design team at Canonical run two-week iterations building and maintaining all of the Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Brand The Brand team develop our design strategy and create the look and feel for the company across many touch-points, ...


Bill Wear
10 March 2022

Deep work in interesting times

Cloud and server Article

Prologue As programmers and tech writers, we are creators, and we are knowledge workers. We strive to do rare and valuable work, regardless of the circumstances, what Dartmouth professor Cal Newport calls deep work. Deep work is hard and difficult. At Canonical, we are specifically committed to doing things that are simultaneously hard an ...


Canonical
9 March 2022

cPanel & WHM® expands collaboration with Ubuntu to bring full support for Ubuntu LTS in V102

Canonical announcements Partners

40% of the 2021 Open Stack Survey respondents indicated Ubuntu as their primary OS. Houston, TX – February 2022 – cPanel® L.L.C., the Hosting Platform of Choice, a WebPros® portfolio company, is expanding its collaboration with Ubuntu to provide full support for Ubuntu LTS 20.04 with cPanel & WHM version 102.  In the winter of 2020, CentO ...


Hugo Huang
9 March 2022

Enable FIPS on Google Cloud

Cloud and server Article

Ubuntu Pro FIPS images are now available in Google Cloud. Find out more about why you need a FIPS-compliant environment and how you can be FIPS compliant in Google Cloud. ...


Edoardo Barbieri
7 March 2022

The State of IoT – February 2022

Internet of Things Article

One could aptly name this February State of IoT as the State of Silicon. With the much-anticipated partnership between ARM and NVIDIA halting to a grind, Intel grabbed this month’s headlines by investing in the open RISC-V architecture and announcing a new fund promoting disruptive startups. Let’s dive straight in! Ferrari partners with Q ...


Massimiliano Gori
4 March 2022

Ubuntu Pro 20.04 FIPS is now available for AWS, Azure and GCP

FIPS Article

The Ubuntu Pro FIPS profile is now available on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud ...