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19 posts from June 2016
Snapcraft 2.12: an ecosystem of parts, qmake and gulp
By Canonical, 29 June 2016
Snapcraft 2.12 is here and is making its way to your 16.04 machines today.This release takes Snapcraft to a whole new level. For example, instead of defining...
HOWTO: Host your own SNAP store!
By Dustin Kirkland, 24 June 2016
SNAPs are the cross-distro, cross-cloud, cross-device Linux packaging format of the future. And we’re already hosting a fantastic catalog of SNAPs in the...
HOWTO: Host your own SNAP store!
By Dustin Kirkland, 24 June 2016
SNAPs are the cross-distro, cross-cloud, cross-device Linux packaging format of the future. And we’re already hosting a fantastic catalog of SNAPs in the...
HOWTO: Classic, apt-based Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Server on the rpi2!
By Dustin Kirkland, 20 June 2016
Classic Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, on an rpi2Hopefully by now you’re well aware of Ubuntu Core — the snappiest way to run Ubuntu on a Raspberry Pi…But have you ever...
HOWTO: Classic, apt-based Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Server on the rpi2!
By Dustin Kirkland, 20 June 2016
Classic Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, on an rpi2Hopefully by now you’re well aware of Ubuntu Core — the snappiest way to run Ubuntu on a Raspberry Pi…But have you ever...
A New Research Cloud on Ubuntu OpenStack
By Canonical, 20 June 2016
If you’re starting from almost scratch, and – where many people are – you don’t have any skill, you don’t have any training, you don’t have much of an idea of...
The Changelog Podcast — Ubuntu Everywhere
By Dustin Kirkland, 18 June 2016
I had the honor and privilege a couple of weeks ago, to participate in a recording of The Changelog, a podcast dedicated to Open Source technology.You can...
Leveling up snapd integration tests
By Gustavo Niemeyer, 16 June 2016
Over the last several months there has been noticeable and growing pain associated with the evolving integration tests around snapd, and given the project...
sudo purge-old-kernels: Recover some disk space!
By Dustin Kirkland, 16 June 2016
If you have long-running Ubuntu systems (server or desktop), and you keep those systems up to date, you will, over time, accumulate a lot of Linux...
Juju Made the Deadline
By Konstantinos Tsakalozos, 15 June 2016
Ok… I am exaggerating. Juju did not make the deadline, Panagiotis and his co-authors with their hard work made the deadline. Ah, ok you caught me lying again…...
Special report: Low latency and real-time kernels for telco and NFV
By Canonical, 15 June 2016
The kernel is the fundamental core of a computer operating system. It is the first program to load, and it manages all core functions of the computer. With...
Universal “snap” packages launch on multiple Linux distros
By Canonical, 14 June 2016
Developers from multiple Linux distributions and companies today announced collaboration on the “snap” universal Linux package format, enabling a single...