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34 posts from February 2016
Community collaborates on new convergent Ubuntu phones
By Thibaut Rouffineau, 19 February 2016
Today, we’re celebrating the arrival of two new Ubuntu phone community ports! If you’re the lucky owner of a Sony Xperia Z1 you will soon be able to download...
Container World 2016: Application and Machine Containers (slides)
By Dustin Kirkland, 18 February 2016
I had the opportunity to speak at Container World 2016 in Santa Clara yesterday. Thanks in part to the Netflix guys who preceded me, the room was absolutely...
ZFS Licensing and Linux
By Dustin Kirkland, 18 February 2016
We at Canonical have conducted a legal review, including discussion with the industry’s leading software freedom legal counsel, of the licenses that apply to...
Meizu PRO 5 Ubuntu Edition launches globally
By Canonical, 17 February 2016
Highest specification Ubuntu phone launches internationally with Meizu Meizu PRO 5 Ubuntu Edition available for pre-order during Mobile World Congress 2016...
Juju Big Data hits the conference scene
By Kevin W Monroe, 16 February 2016
Though only a few weeks into 2016, the Juju Big Data team has already been busy engaging diverse communities at conferences and meetups. We’d like to share...
ZFS is *the* FS for Containers in Ubuntu 16.04!
By Dustin Kirkland, 16 February 2016
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial) is only a few short weeks away, and with it comes one of the most exciting new features Linux has seen in a very long time…ZFS —...
Running snaps in LXD containers
By Stéphane Graber, 16 February 2016
Introduction The LXD and AppArmor teams have been working to support loading AppArmor policies inside LXD containers for a while. This support which finally...
Telco Demos With Juju: APIdaze
By James Donner, 12 February 2016
From Big Data to web services, there is so much that can be made with our service modeling tool Juju. As we count down to Mobile World Congress, we’ll be...
The Model of a Good Time: Juju Charmer Summit 2.0 @ cfgmgmntcamp
By Jorge O. Castro, 11 February 2016
Over 100 Juju enthusiasts gathered this week for our second Juju Charmer Summit in beautiful Gent, Belgium as part of the Config Management Camp. This was our...
Docker, Alpine, Ubuntu, and You
By Dustin Kirkland, 10 February 2016
There’s no shortage of excitement, controversy, and readership, any time you can work “Docker” into a headline these days. Perhaps a bit like “Donald Trump”,...
Federal Government experts Awnix join Canonical’s Partner Programme
By Ellen Arnold, 10 February 2016
Canonical is excited to welcome OpenStack solution provider Awnix to its Reseller Programme. Awnix provides OpenStack solutions tailored to the US federal...
Ubuntu Core is available for the Intel® NUC
By Thibaut Rouffineau, 10 February 2016
Over the last few months Canonical and Intel have been working together to create a standard platform for developers to test and create x86-based IOT...