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Breeze through Ubuntu Desktop 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver

The Bionic Beaver, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS is here!  It’s been a busy six months for the desktop team, and indeed for everyone working on Ubuntu.  We’ve been working on making sure that your upgrade from previous releases is smooth and trouble free, tracking down bugs to make 18.04 LTS stable and reliable, and adding some

What’s new in Ubuntu 18.04 and OpenStack Queens

Canonical have recently released 18.04 LTS to continue Ubuntu’s positioning as a reference cloud for digital transformation workloads. Ubuntu is at the heart of the world’s largest OpenStack clouds, both public and private, in key sectors such as finance, media, retail and telecommunications. Join our upcoming webinar to discover how Ubun

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS optimised for security, multi-cloud, containers & AI

26th April 2018, London, UK: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS – the newest version of the most widely used Linux for workstations, cloud and IoT, is now available. “Multi-cloud operations are the new normal” said Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical and founder of Ubuntu. “Boot-time and performance-optimised images of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on every major publi

Ora as a snap: ensuring users are benefiting from the latest version

Ora is a user-friendly task management service with integrated time-tracking, reports, list view, git integrations and many other features. Often referred to by users as ‘the sweet spot between Trello and Jira’, Ora provides almost a complete match of Jira’s feature set but in a new and more accessible way. Last month, Ora launched their

LXD weekly status #44

Introduction Another week of bugfixes for us as more and more people update to the 3.0 releases! Quite a bit of work went into improving the handling of the two database in LXD 3.0, making it easier for us to debug issues and provide fixes to our users when something goes wrong. Work is also

Dell Technologies World 2018

Details Date: April 30th – May 3rd Location: Las Vegas Venue: The Venetian Booth: 1756 More information Background Discover the Dell Technologies connected ecosystem of IT infrastructure, applications, devices and security that enable real transformation. Dell Technologies World is for the technologists, thought leaders and executives rea

A look at Rancher 2.0

This is the final webinar in our Kubernetes Month series! Speaker:Calvin Hartwell & Sheng Liang Date/Time: April 25, 2018 at 12PM EST / 5PM GMT Last December, we announced a Kubernetes Cloud Native Platform in partnership with Rancher Labs. Built on Canonical’s Distribution of Kubernetes and Rancher 2.0, the Cloud Native Platform will sim

Design and Web team summary – 20 April 2018

Welcome to the latest work and updates from the design and web team. We manage all web projects across Canonical – from www.ubuntu.com to the Juju GUI we help to bring beauty and consistency to all the web projects. MAAS Table consistency and improvements MAAS UI contains a lot of data in tables, posing an interesting design challenge. We


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KubeCon + CloudnativeCon Europe 2018

Date: May 2-4 Location: Copenhagen, Denmark Venue: Bella Center Copenhagen Booth: G-C05 The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship conference will be taking place in Copenhagen from May 2-4. It will cover Kubernetes, Prometheus OpenTracing, Fluentd, Linkerd, gRPC, CoreDNS, and other key technologies in cloud native computing. The Ub

Eclipse 2018 survey: The IoT landscape, what it empirically looks like

Every year the Eclipse Foundation along with other sponsors conduct an online survey of the IoT market looking at what technologies are being used and how. The 2018 edition of that survey has just been made available and I thought it would be a great idea to look at some of the overarching trends.  The Internet

Ubuntu Server development summary – 17 April 2018

Hello Ubuntu Server The purpose of this communication is to provide a status update and highlights for any interesting subjects from the Ubuntu Server Team. If you would like to reach the server team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-server channel on Freenode. Alternatively, you can sign up and use the Ubuntu Server Team

LXD weekly status #43

Introduction This week’s focus was on bugfixes with a good number of clustering related fixes and improvements as well as some tweaks and fixes to other recently added features. On the feature development front, the current focus is on improving the database tooling in LXD and adding a new backup feature to the API to

BotsAndUs build a social robot on Ubuntu

As robotics become increasingly prevalent in all sectors and expand outside the manufacturing industry, it is no surprise that IDC predicts worldwide spending on robotics to reach $103bn in 2018. A UK based startup, BotsAndUs, are looking to capitalise on this opportunity and have created an advanced social robot – Bo – primarily for use

On the road to lean infrastructure

On April 24 2008, Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Hardy Heron was released. That was a decade ago, when the modern cloud computing era was dawning: Amazon’s EC2 was still in beta, Google had just released the Google App Engine and the word “container” was dominating the plastics industry rather than IT. A lot has changed since

Ubuntu Desktop weekly update – 13 April 2018

Wow, only two weeks to go until the Beaver is born, this cycle seems have flown by.  So what’s been going on in the last couple of weeks, and what can we expect to change in the run up to release day? We’re still working on adding a new first-login experience to guide people through

JFrog Artifactory and Canonical’s Distribution of Kubernetes

This is the third webinar in our Kubernetes Month series! Speaker:Craig Peters (JFrog) & Stephan Fabel (Canonical) Date/Time: April 18, 2018 at 12PM EST / 5PM GMT Software development teams using the diverse tools and languages of the cloud native world face formidable hurdles safely releasing software fast. Artifactory acts as the single


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