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MAAS for the home

This article originally appeared on Chris Sanders’ blog MAAS is designed to run in a data center where it expects to have control of DNS and DHCP. The use of an external DHCP server is listed as ‘may work but not supported’ in the MAAS documentation. This guide will describe how I configured MAAS to

LXD weekly status #37

Introduction So this past week was rather intense, in a nutshell, we’ve: Merged LXD clustering support Split python3-lxc, lua-lxc and lxc-templates out of the LXC codebase Moved libpam-cgfs from lxcfs to lxc Released 3.0.0 beta1 of python3-lxc and lxc-templates Released 3.0.0 beta1 of lxcfs Released 3.0.0 beta1 of lxc Released 3.0.0 beta1

Kernel Team summary: February 27, 2018

Development (18.04) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BionicBeaver/ReleaseSchedule On the road to 18.04 we have a 4.15 based kernel in the Bionic repository. Important upcoming dates: 16.04.4 Point Release – Mar 1 (~1 week away) Feature Freeze – Mar 1 (~1 week away) Beta 1 – Mar 8 (~2 weeks away) Final Beta – Apr 5 (~6 weeks away) Kernel

Ubuntu Server development summary – 27 February 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

Charming Discourse with the reactive framework

Recently the Canonical IS department was asked to deploy the Discourse forum software for a revamp of the Ubuntu Community site at https://community.ubuntu.org. Discourse is a modernization of classic forum/bulletin board software packages and is something IS has had an interest in for some time, so I was happy to help the Community team

LXD weekly status #36

Introduction This past week we’ve been working very hard to land all those last few bits ahead of us tagging a number of 3.0.0.beta1 releases of all our repositories. We’re now waiting for a few last bits to land, including LXD clustering and some reshuffling of templates, bindings and tools in LXC. The current plan

Deploying Ubuntu OpenStack to ARM64 servers

At Canonical, we’ve been doing work to make sure Ubuntu OpenStack deploys on ARM servers as easily as on x86. Whether you have Qualcomm 2400 REP boards, Cavium ThunderX boards, HiSilicon D05 boards, or other Ubuntu  Certified server hardware, you can go from bare metal to a working OpenStack in minutes! The following tutorial will walk

Ubuntu Desktop weekly update – February 23, 2018

GNOME We’ve been working on a GNOME Online Accounts plugin for Ubuntu One. This will allow you to manage your U1 credentials and share them with services which need them, for example Canonical LivePatch. A MR is being proposed upstream. A bug has been fixed which caused some high contrast icons to be missing in


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Canonical announces Ubuntu Core across Rigado’s IoT gateways

Rigado customers will benefit from open source, cost-effective, secure software in their commercial IoT deployments London, UK –  21st February 2018 – Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, today announced that Ubuntu Core will be deployed across Rigado’s Edge Connectivity gateway solutions, further establishing Ubuntu Core as the premier

LXD Weekly Status #35

Introduction This past week we’ve been focusing on a number of open pull requests, getting closer to merging improvements to our storage volume handling, unix char/block devices handling and the massive clustering branch that’s been cooking for a while. We’re hoping to see most of those land at some point this coming week. On the

Snapcraft through the eyes of its biggest community contributor

If you’ve spent any time in the Snapcraft forum, it’s quite likely you’ve come across Dani Llewellyn – a keen community advocate or self-proclaimed Snapcrafter. Dani has always had a passion for computing and is completely self-taught. Outside of the community, Dani is a freelance WordPress developer. After getting into the open source wo

Storage Made Easy adds Charm to Canonical’s Juju ecosystem

Storage Made Easy (SME) today announced the availability of the Storage Made Easy™ Enterprise File Fabric™ charm through Canonical’s Juju charm store. The store provides access to a wide range of best practice solutions which can be deployed to public clouds such as AWS, Google Cloud and Azure as well as private clouds such as

LXD weekly status #34

Introduction A lot happened this past week. @brauner is making great progress cleaning everything up in liblxc and related projects ahead of the 3.0 release, @freeekanayaka has been sorting out the last few missing bits for LXD clustering and @monstermunchkin has been busy working on our new distrobuilder tool! On top of all that, we’ve

Ubuntu Server development summary – 13 February 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

Skype discuss easing Linux maintenance with snaps

Skype is used by hundreds of millions of users globally to make free video and voice calls, send files, video and instant messages. It has been two years since Skype first launched to Linux users on the Electron framework. This brings us to the present day, where the team recently launched their first snap and

Your first robot: The controller [3/5]

This is the third blog post in this series about creating your first robot with ROS and Ubuntu Core. In the previous post you were introduced to the Robot Operating System (ROS), and got your robot moving by ROSifying one of the CamJam worksheets. Today we’re going to move beyond the CamJam worksheets, and work


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