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255 posts from 2016
Jamming with Ubuntu Core
By April Wang, 7 December 2016
We celebrated the launch of Ubuntu Core 16 hackathon, or shall we say Snapathon, that took place in Shenzhen between 26-27th November. The 30+ hour gathering...
LXD 2.0: LXD and OpenStack [11/12]
By Stéphane Graber, 7 December 2016
This is the eleventh blog post in this series about LXD 2.0. Introduction First of all, sorry for the delay. It took quite a long time before I finally...
Cloud Chatter: November 2016
By James Donner, 2 December 2016
Welcome to our November edition. We begin with details on our latest partnership with Docker. Next up, we bring you a co-hosted webinar with PLUMgrid...
Canonical’s Distribution of Kubernetes reduces operational friction
By Canonical, 1 December 2016
Linux containers (LXC) are one of the hottest technologies in the market today. Developers are adopting containers, especially Docker, as a way to speed-up...
UbuCon Europe – a sure sign of community strength
By Canonical, 1 December 2016
UbuCon Europe, 18-20 Nov 2016, Essen, Germany Recovering from a great UbuCon Europe session that just took place a couple weeks ago! This year was attended by...
Competition: Build a seasonal snap on your Raspberry Pi
By Amrisha Prashar, 1 December 2016
And our present for you this Christmas is… a competition to create a seasonal snap on your Raspberry Pi 2 or 3! We’d love to see the entries that are the most...
10 desktop snaps written in November
By Didier Roche, 1 December 2016
It’s that time of the month again where we round up our top ten snaps from the last month! For those that may not know, snaps are a new way for developers to...
Taking a stand against unofficial Ubuntu images
By Canonical, 1 December 2016
Ubuntu is amazing on the cloud because we work with cloud providers to ensure crisp, consistent and secure images which you can auto-update safely. On every...
Canonical and AWS partner to deliver world-class support in the cloud
By Udi Nachmany, 28 November 2016
In today’s software world, support is many times an afterthought or an expensive contract used only to keep-up with the latest patches, updates, and versions....
Mir is not only about Unity8
By Guest, 28 November 2016
This is a guest post by Alan Griffiths, Software engineer at Canonical. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact...
Ubuntu SDK meets snapcraft
By Benjamin Zeller, 28 November 2016
Everyone who has followed Ubuntu lately for sure stumbled across the snappy technology, which does not only bring the new cross-distro packaging format “snap”...
How to build your own Ubuntu Core image and other documentation add-on
By David Callé, 21 November 2016
2 weeks since the launch of Ubuntu Core 16! Many of you have been asking for help porting Ubuntu Core to new boards, chips or simply building your own images...