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255 posts from 2016
Learning to snap with codelabs
By Canonical, 28 September 2016
I always felt that learning something new, especially new concepts and workflows usually works best if you see it first-hand and get to do things yourself. If...
First setup of my Nextcloud Box
By Canonical, 27 September 2016
Article cited below by Hagen Cocoate and source here Last Saturday at Nextcloud conference in Berlin the Nextcloud Box was announced. Frank said it’s a part...
Snap interview with Rocket.Chat
By Michael Hall, 27 September 2016
Snap packaging has been gaining a lot of momentum recently, from desktop apps to cloud services, and everything in between. To learn more about the people and...
Canonical joins Linaro and co-founds LITE project
By Thibaut Rouffineau, 26 September 2016
Canonical joins Linaro as one of the founding members of the LITE project, fostering collaboration and interoperability in the IoT and embedded space....
Rocket.chat, a new snap is landing on your Nextcloud Box and beyond
By Thibaut Rouffineau, 22 September 2016
Last week Nextcloud, Western Digital and Canonical launched the Nextcloud box, a simple box powered by a Raspberry Pi to easily build a private cloud storage...
Monitoring “big software” stacks with the Elastic Stack
By Charles Butler, 22 September 2016
Big Software is a new class of application. It’s composed of so many moving pieces that humans, by themselves, cannot...
Leostream joins Canonical’s Charm partner programme
By Ellen Arnold, 21 September 2016
Leostream Corporation, a leading developer of hosted desktop connection management software, has joined the Charm partner programme to facilitate the...
Low Graphics Mode in Unity 7
By Will Cooke, 19 September 2016
Unity 7 has had a low graphics mode for a long time but recently we’ve been making it better. Improvements have been made to reduce the amount of visual...
Over-The-Air 13 has landed
By Richard Collins, 19 September 2016
Our latest OTA-13 has landed and we’re excited to share the key updates below! General Features Copy/paste can now be carried out with legacy apps Settings...
The future of your smart home
By Maarten Ectors, 15 September 2016
You can’t hide from the Internet of Things [IoT] any more. IoT is mentioned in the press almost weekly now, if not daily. Even your grandmother is talking...
Why open source matters to the IoT market
By Maarten Ectors, 15 September 2016
With everything becoming connected through IoT, security will be key to its success. And the best way to secure a system is to allow anybody to inspect the...
Deploying a Spark job using Juju
By Guest, 13 September 2016
Juju makes it easy to setup and monitor a Spark cluster with a few commands. In this guide we will setup a new cluster and deploy a Spark job using this tool....