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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 ...


Canonical
7 October 2016

Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud Programme

Ubuntu Article

If you operate a public cloud or you’re considering launching one, the Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud programme lets you make certified, secure and up to date Ubuntu images available to your users, along with the opportunity to offer management, monitoring and commercial support from Canonical – all of which represent additional revenue op ...


Canonical
5 October 2016

Software defined networking is critical in big software

Cloud and server Article

The promise of Software Defined Networking (SDN) is to help an organization’s network to be more agile, streamlined, and adaptable. Today’s networks are growing in both size and complexity. SDN allows network engineers to automate the management and configuration of their network equipment and services. As a strategy, SDN has gained consi ...


Amrisha Prashar
5 October 2016

Nextcloud Box: The first consumer device to run snaps

Internet of Things Article

Last month saw the release of the Nextcloud box – the first consumer equipment to run snaps! The box is a private cloud and IoT solution for home users, giving consumers a way to take back control over their personal data. It consists of a hard drive, case and is complemented by a Raspberry Pi ...


Amrisha Prashar
5 October 2016

ROScon – the robotics conference for developers

Internet of Things Article

Did you know that the consumer drones market will sit at 67.7 million units annually by 2021? *That’s ten times more than 2015! This shows staggering growth that reflects the sheer importance of the Robotics market now and in years to come. Not only will every industry be impacted, but new categories will be created ...


Didier Roche
5 October 2016

10 desktop snaps written in September

Desktop Article

We’ve been speaking a lot around snaps…and as a re-cap for those that may not know, snaps are a new way for developers to package their apps, bringing with it many advantages over the more traditional package formats such as .deb, .rpm, and others. They are secure, isolated and allow apps to be rolled back ...