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17 posts from October 2016
Dirty COW was livepatched in Ubuntu within hours of publication
By Dustin Kirkland, 31 October 2016
If you haven’t heard about last week’s Dirty COW vulnerability, I hope all of your Linux systems are automatically patching themselves…Why? Because every...
Travel-friendly Lemur Ubuntu laptop updated to Kaby Lake
By Guest, 27 October 2016
This is a guest post by Ryan Sipes, community manager at System76. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com...
Snapping Cuberite
By Guest, 27 October 2016
This is a guest post by James Tait, Software Engineer at Canonical. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com...
Infographic: Ubuntu Advantage explained
By Canonical, 25 October 2016
Ubuntu Advantage is the commercial support package from Canonical. It includes Landscape, the Ubuntu systems management tool, and the Canonical Livepatch...
Learn about Open Source technologies on Microsoft Azure
By Ellen Arnold, 24 October 2016
Canonical will be taking part in Microsoft and IDC’s Enterprise Open Source Roadshow this autumn and winter. This roadshow will pass through many western...
Managing your physical infrastructure from the top of rack switch
By Canonical, 21 October 2016
At the last OpenStack Design Summit in Austin, TX we showed you a preview of deploying your physical server and network infrastructure from the top-of-rack...
Live kernel patching from Canonical now available for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
By Tom Callway, 20 October 2016
We are delighted to announce the availability of a new service for Ubuntu which any user can enable on their current installations – the Canonical Livepatch...
Unity 8 preview session in Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak
By Will Cooke, 13 October 2016
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...
The new Ubuntu Core 16 beta image is out!
By didrocks, 7 October 2016
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...
Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud Programme
By Canonical, 7 October 2016
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...
Software defined networking is critical in big software
By Canonical, 5 October 2016
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...
Nextcloud Box: The first consumer device to run snaps
By Amrisha Prashar, 5 October 2016
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,...