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Anthony Dillon
16 November 2021

Design and Web team summary – 16 November 2021

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. Meet the team Hi! My name is Marina and I’m a senior UX Designer in the Workplace Engineering squad. We ...


Hugo Huang
16 November 2021

Secure your Open-Source Freedom for 10 years

Cloud and server Article

If this is your desire, it is Ubuntu Pro’s commitment: “Ubuntu Pro will secure your Open-Source Freedom for 10 years”. Security and Freedom shouldn’t be a debate, a trade-off, even a dilemma. Security shouldn’t be your concern when you embrace Open-Source. A 10-year commitment Canonical backs Ubuntu Pro for 10 years, ensuring security upd ...


Gabriel Aguiar Noury
12 November 2021

The‌ ‌State‌ ‌of‌ ‌Robotics‌ ‌-‌ ‌October‌ ‌2021‌ ‌

Robotics Article

October went fast, full of news and packed with interesting robotics applications. This month certainly doesn’t need an intro, so we will let the news take all your attention.    ROS CVE alert- ensuring security for robotics Early in October 2021, Open Robotics registered a CVE security vulnerability that affects ROS Kinetic, Melodic and ...


Igor Ljubuncic
12 November 2021

Snapcraft offline mode – Build snaps while saving data

Ubuntu Article

As part of the snap creation cycle, the Snapcraft tool creates isolated build instances inside which all of the necessary work – download of sources, compilation, packaging, etc. – is done in a safe manner, without touching the host system. While there are many advantages to the use of the virtual machines (via Multipass) or ...


Omar Ali Amin
11 November 2021

You’ll float too… If you don’t listen to your IT

Cloud and server Article

Here’s yet another hint Pennywise was trying to signal – IT has a scary face that we should all dread! If you don’t know who Pennywise is, then you are missing out watching the horrifying clown from the horror movie series It – not IT (Eye-Tee). No wonder it has become the highest-grossing horror film ...


robgibbon
10 November 2021

SQL Server on Ubuntu Pro: bringing it all back home

Cloud and server Article

Not going to lie, the Microsoft SQL Server is my all-time favourite Microsoft product. For a long time, SQL Server was only available for Windows, but not much is really sacred. So now Microsoft, in collaboration with Canonical, are distributing and supporting several flavours of SQL Server on Ubuntu Pro for Azure. I’m going to ...


Valentin Viennot
10 November 2021

Intel and Canonical to secure containers software supply chain

Ubuntu Article

Intel and Canonical collaborate to build and publish OpenVINO™ container images based on the Ubuntu ecosystem. This work aims to provide trusted, secure, and developer-friendly container images for AI/ML applications in many industries. The provenance challenge facing cloud software Today, cloud-native developers benefit from an abundance ...


Canonical
9 November 2021

Canonical Transforms Linux on Mac

Canonical announcements Canonical News

Developers can now launch Linux instances on Apple M1 with Multipass 1.8 November 9th London, UK: On the heels of Apple’s announcement of a new line of game-changing M1 MacBooks, Canonical is bringing fast and easy Linux to the M1 platform. Multipass, the quickest way to run Linux cross-platform, received an update last week allowing ...


Hugo Huang
9 November 2021

CIS-Harden your Ubuntu in Google Cloud

Cloud and server Article

CIS Benchmarks are best practices for the secure configuration of a target system. The Center for Internet Security, Inc. (CIS®) is the authority backing CIS Benchmarks. Ubuntu Pro is entitled to be CIS compliant and packaged with CIS toolings from Canonical. Let’s SSH into your Ubuntu Pro virtual machine. If you haven’t yet upgrade your ...


Massimiliano Gori
8 November 2021

History of Open Source Identity Management (part 1)

Security Article

First post on the history of the main Open Source Identity Management protocols and technologies. This post covers the origins, LDAP and Kerberos ...


Vergil Yotov
5 November 2021

Five reasons to manage your IoT edge devices

Internet of Things Article

The Internet of Things adoption is growing faster than ever before. As connected devices become more affordable, they find their place in many aspects of our lives. Users worldwide can benefit from a large ecosystem of IoT solutions. However, this rapid growth comes at a cost. Different IoT edge devices have different interfaces, speak di ...