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anaqvi
30 September 2019

Digest #2019.09.30 – Making the Most of Machine Learning

Kubeflow Machine Learning

Understanding Fairness in Machine Learning – This article is a great reminder and defense for the statement, “the data speaks for itself.” Biases in training models affect the results of analyses. It is essential to understand how our models make decisions to tackle this bias by adding more balanced training data. Knowledge of biases in ...


Alan Pope
26 September 2019

Easy Linux Game Streaming with OBS

Desktop Article

For many, watching other people play games has long taken over from TV as the favoured source of entertainment content. As a creator, whether you stream via YouTube, Twitch.tv or Mixer, Open Broadcast Software (OBS) Studio is the swiss-army knife to do it. The OBS snap makes this a breeze, whichever Linux distro you’re playing ...


anaqvi
25 September 2019

Deploying Kubernetes Locally – MicroK8s

Kubernetes Article

This is the second part of our introduction to MicroK8s. In the previous blog, we introduced MicroK8s, went over some K8s basic concepts and showed you how fast and easy it is to install Kubernetes with MicroK8s — it’s up in under 60 seconds with a one-liner command. In this blog, we dive deeper to ...


anaqvi
23 September 2019

Digest #2019.09.23 – Machine Learning is the word…

Ubuntu Machine Learning

MLOps, Rise of the Term: Most of us by now have heard this word frequenting around; MLOps, or Machine Learning Operations.. This is an interesting article on the rise of the term and the challenges actually faced by teams working cross-functionally and dealing with Machine Learning. It talks about the limitation of managed solutions for ...


Igor Ljubuncic
19 September 2019

Popular snaps per distro

Desktop Article

From a distance, Linux is one big, confusing ball of passionate users and hardcore technical jargon. But as you zoom in, you can start seeing patterns – and differences. Indeed, the individual and vastly varied choice of a favorite distribution has played a major part in shaping the community conversation in the Linux space. But ...


Guest
18 September 2019

Announcing the new IBM LinuxONE III with Ubuntu

Cloud and server Article

This is a guest blog by Kara Todd, Director, Linux, IBM Z and LinuxONE Enterprises today need a highly secure, and flexible system to support their initiatives, and for that system to grow and evolve for tomorrow. The latest LinuxONE system was designed to support mission-critical initiatives and allow enterprises to be innovative as they ...


Canonical
18 September 2019

Kubernetes 1.16 available from Canonical

Ubuntu Article

Canonical announces full enterprise support for Kubernetes 1.16, with support covering Charmed Kubernetes, MicroK8s and kubeadm. MicroK8s will be updated with Kubernetes 1.16 enabling users access to the latest upstream release with a single-line command in under 60 seconds. In addition, MicroK8s gets new add-ons with one line installs of ...


Anthony Dillon
17 September 2019

Design and Web team summary – 17 September 2019

Design Article

This was a fairly busy two weeks for the Web & design team at Canonical.  Here are some of the highlights of our completed work. Web squad Web is the squad that develop and maintain most of the brochure websites across the Canonical. Takeover templates In order to save some time with our more and ...


anaqvi
16 September 2019

Introduction to MicroK8s

Cloud and server Article

Every developer, systems admin and tech enthusiast is interested in learning Kubernetes. Kubernetes is a complex container orchestration tool that can be overwhelming for beginners. Kubernetes has been the buzzword in the tech industry and for good reason. If you’re itching to get started with Kubernetes and not looking forward to the com ...


anaqvi
16 September 2019

Digest #2019.09.16 – The State of AI and ML

Ubuntu Article

Machine Learning and AI in 2019: A recent survey conducted by Dresner Advisory Services shows Machine Learning and AI to rank as highest priority for enterprises. R&D, Marketing, Sales, Insurance, Fintech, Telco, Retail and Healthcare enterprise rank machine learning as their biggest bet and believe it is critical to their success. “2019 ...


Andres Rodriguez
12 September 2019

Hardware discovery and kernel auto-configuration in MAAS

Cloud and server Article

In this blog, we are going to explore how to leverage MAAS for hardware discovery and kernel auto-configuration using tags. In many cases, certain pieces of hardware require extra kernel parameters to be set in order to make use of them. For example, when configuring GPU passthrough we will typically need to configure the GPU ...