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Canonical
17 August 2018

Kubernetes Classes at Cloud Native, Docker, K8s Summit

Cloud and server Cloud

Cloud Native, Docker, K8s Summit Date: September 12 Location: 411 West Arapaho Road, Richardson, TX 75080 Update 4th September: By now you have probably heard that the Cloud-Native, Docker & K8s Summit has been cancelled. However, Canonical will still be providing on-site training to learn how best to deploy and maintain K8s on Ubuntu on ...


Canonical
14 August 2018

Ubuntu updates for L1 Terminal Fault vulnerabilities

Canonical announcements Article

Today Intel announced a new side channel vulnerability known as L1 Terminal Fault. Raoul Strackx, Jo Van Bulck, Marina Minkin, Ofir Weisse, Daniel Genkin, Baris Kasikci, Frank Piessens, Mark Silberstein, Thomas F. Wenisch, Yuval Yarom, and researchers from Intel discovered that memory present in the L1 data cache of an Intel CPU core may ...


Alan Pope
14 August 2018

Retro Style Games on Linux

Desktop Desktop

Gaming on Linux doesn’t have to mean buying a ludicrously priced GPU (thanks crypto miners!). Nor does it require a beefy CPU. There’s a real resurgence in retro style gaming going on right now. We’ve pulled together a selection of retro-inspired games for you to play today, on your beloved Linux machine. You can stay ...


Stephan Fabel
13 August 2018

Deploying Kubernetes on Public Clouds is hard – or is it?

Cloud and server Article

Automate your Kubernetes deployments on AWS, Azure, and Google Recently, there’s been talk about how Kubernetes has become hard to deploy and run on virtual substrates such as those offered by the public clouds. Indeed, the cloud-specific quirks around infrastructure provisioning, including storage, networking assets such as load balancer ...


Anthony Dillon
13 August 2018

Design and Web team summary – 13 August 2018

Cloud and server Design

Welcome to the latest work and updates from the design and web team. The team manages all web projects across Canonical. From www.ubuntu.com to the Juju GUI we help to bring beauty and consistency to all the web projects. Web The web team were asked to take over the development of mir-server.io. This has begun ...


Kit Randel
9 August 2018

Conference Report: Fullstack 2018 London

Cloud and server Notes

I recently attended Fullstack 2018, “The Conference on JavaScript, Node & Internet of Things” with my colleagues from the Canonical Web Team in London. Fullstack attempts to cover the full spectrum of the JS ecosystem – frontend, backend, IoT, machine learning and a number of other topics. While I attended a broad range of talks, ...


Joshua Powers
7 August 2018

Ubuntu Server development summary – 07 August 2018

Cloud and server Article

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 list. cloud-init ...


Alan Pope
7 August 2018

Fresh Snaps from July 2018

Desktop Article

Another month, and another bumper crop of snaps for you! This time around we have a great mix of developer tools, productivity applications and of course games. All of these are available as snaps which can run on millions of Linux computers around the world. You can stay up to date with our editorial picks ...


Canonical
2 August 2018

Opera launches as a Snap for Linux users

Desktop Article

London, UK, 02 August 2018: Opera and Canonical today announce that Opera, the popular web browser, is now available as a Snap in the Snap Store. Opera is the latest notable addition to the Snap Store providing ever more choice to Linux users via an easy to install, always up to date application direct from ...


Joshua Powers
1 August 2018

Ubuntu Server development summary – 31 July 2018

Cloud and server Article

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 list. Spotlight: ...


Martin Wimpress
31 July 2018

Create your Linux development workstation in seconds

Desktop Article

Linux is the best platform for developers. Here’s how you can get popular languages and development environments up and running in moments. The first step is to install snapd (the service that runs and manages Snaps) on your distro, then you can install your pick from some of our recommendations below. We regularly share new ...