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27 June 2016

App Design Clinic – OwnCloud App #9

Ubuntu Design

The Ubuntu App Design Clinic is back! This month members of the Design Team James Mulholland (UX Designer), Jouni Helminen (Visual Designer) and Andrea Bernabei (UX Engineer) sat down with Dan Wood, contributor to the OwnCloud app. What is OwnCloud? OwnCloud is an open source project, self-hosted file sync and share app platform. Access & ...


Dustin Kirkland
24 June 2016

HOWTO: Host your own SNAP store!

Cloud and server Article

SNAPs are the cross-distro, cross-cloud, cross-device Linux packaging format of the future.  And we’re already hosting a fantastic catalog of SNAPs in the SNAP store provided by Canonical.  Developers are welcome to publish their software for ...


Dustin Kirkland
24 June 2016

HOWTO: Host your own SNAP store!

Desktop Article

SNAPs are the cross-distro, cross-cloud, cross-device Linux packaging format of the future.  And we’re already hosting a fantastic catalog of SNAPs in the SNAP store provided by Canonical.  Developers are welcome to publish their software for ...


Dustin Kirkland
20 June 2016

HOWTO: Classic, apt-based Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Server on the rpi2!

Cloud and server Article

Classic Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, on an rpi2Hopefully by now you’re well aware of Ubuntu Core — the snappiest way to run Ubuntu on a Raspberry Pi…But have you ever wanted to run classic (apt/deb) Ubuntu Server on a RaspberryPi2?Well, you’re in luck! &n ...


Dustin Kirkland
20 June 2016

HOWTO: Classic, apt-based Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Server on the rpi2!

Desktop Article

Classic Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, on an rpi2Hopefully by now you’re well aware of Ubuntu Core — the snappiest way to run Ubuntu on a Raspberry Pi…But have you ever wanted to run classic (apt/deb) Ubuntu Server on a RaspberryPi2?Well, you’re in luck! &n ...


Canonical
20 June 2016

A New Research Cloud on Ubuntu OpenStack

Cloud and server Article

If you’re starting from almost scratch, and – where many people are – you don’t have any skill, you don’t have any training, you don’t have much of an idea of what you want to do, Then [BootStack] is a very good place to start. The University of Cape Town (UCT), in South Africa, recently ...


Dustin Kirkland
18 June 2016

The Changelog Podcast — Ubuntu Everywhere

Cloud and server Article

I had the honor and privilege a couple of weeks ago, to participate in a recording of The Changelog, a podcast dedicated to Open Source technology.You can listen to it here.These guys — Jerod and Adam — produce a fantastic show, and we covered a lot ...


Andrea Bernabei
17 June 2016

QtDay 2016: Developing Ubuntu convergent apps with Qt

Ubuntu Development

QtDay is the only Italian event dedicated to Qt. It is held yearly by Develer and brings together company products that are developed using Qt, as well as Qt developers and customers who want the latest developments and solutions in the Qt world. This year the conference was held in Florence, where I was lucky ...


Gustavo Niemeyer
16 June 2016

Leveling up snapd integration tests

Cloud and server Article

Over the last several months there has been noticeable and growing pain associated with the evolving integration tests around snapd, and given the project goal of being a cross-distribution platform, we are very keen on solving this problem appropriately so that stability is guaranteed everywhere.With that mindset a more focused effort wa ...


Dustin Kirkland
16 June 2016

sudo purge-old-kernels: Recover some disk space!

Cloud and server Article

If you have long-running Ubuntu systems (server or desktop), and you keep those systems up to date, you will, over time, accumulate a lot of Linux kernels.Canonical’s Ubuntu Kernel Team regularly (about once a month) provides kernel updates, patching s ...


Juju Made the Deadline

Cloud and server Article

Ok… I am exaggerating. Juju did not make the deadline, Panagiotis and his co-authors with their hard work made the deadline. Ah, ok you caught me lying again… One of Panagiotis co-authors (me) did not work hard, actually he did not work on the paper at all! Normally, I would publicly apologize, but let me ...