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Canonical
6 June 2017

Canonical Kernel Livepatch Service now available for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS!

Canonical announcements Article

We are pleased to announce that we have extended our Canonical Kernel Livepatch Service to users running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS! The Canonical Kernel Livepatch Service enables runtime correction of critical security vulnerabilities in the kernel without the need to reboot. It is the best way to ensure that machines are safe at the kernel level, ...


Canonical
6 June 2017

Developer Economics survey Q3 2017

Desktop Article

We are excited to announce that Ubuntu is a proud sponsor to the Developer Economics Q3 2017 survey, run by our friends at VisionMobile. This is the 13th developer survey, focusing on tools, training and career development. Every year more than 40,000 developers around the world participate in this survey, so this is a chance ...


Canonical
2 June 2017

Kubernetes webinar series

Cloud and server Webinar

We have recently broadcasted a series of live webinars on Kubernetes, covering a range of practical topics you will come across when evaluating and using Kubernetes. The webinars include demos on how to set up a Kubernetes cluster, installation, validation, running a test suite and upgrading your Kubernetes as well as Deep Learning and AI ...


Canonical
2 June 2017

Customising MAAS installs

Cloud and server Article

by Matt Jarvis, Consulting Architect at Canonical Canonical’s MAAS is a bare metal provisioning and lifecycle management system. In this post, we’ll look at customising installs provisioned by MAAS to enable site specific configuration. Historically, the paradigm for bare metal machine installation has been to use a ‘golden master’ image, ...


May’s reading list

Ubuntu Notes

Here are the best links shared by the design team in May 2017: Introducing a faster BBC News front page Brick Block Create storyboards for your animations Introducing the Citymapper Smartbus Design Better Data Tables Screen Sizes: Viewport Sizes and Pixel Densities for Popular Devices Lost My Name Design System GitHub’s Public Speaking Cu ...


Kyle Fazzari
31 May 2017

The Turtlebot 3 has launched

Internet of Things Article

If you’re familiar with ROS (Robot Operating System), chances are you’re also familiar with the Turtlebot. The first version of the Turtlebot was created back in 2010 to serve as an inexpensive platform for learning ROS. This was followed in 2012 by the Turtlebot 2, which has since become the reference platform for learning ROS. ...


Robin Winslow
31 May 2017

Our open source websites

Ubuntu Featured

Nowadays free software is everywhere – from browsers to encryption software to operating systems. Even so, it is still relatively rare for the code behind websites and services to be opened up. Stepping into the open Three years ago we started to move our website projects to Github, and we also took this opportunity to ...


Thibaut Rouffineau
30 May 2017

Build.snapcraft.io gets your code ready to distribute in minutes

Cloud and server Article

The public beta release of build.snapcraft.io is now open! build.snapcraft.io is an easy and free to use platform for publishing your software to the tens of millions of machines running Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, OpenSuSE, Arch, Gentoo, Yocto and others. whichever Operating System they’re running, the behaviour of your app is going to be th ...


Redefining the Developer Event

Cloud and server Article

By Randall Ross, Ubuntu Evangelist We’ve all been to “those other” developer events: Sitting in a room watching a succession of never-ending slide presentations. Engagement with the audience, if any, is minimal. We leave with some tips and tools that we might be able to put into practice, but frankly, we attended because we were ...


Hacking Through Machine Learning at the OpenPOWER Developer Congress

Cloud and server Article

By Sumit Gupta, Vice President, IBM Cognitive Systems 10 years ago, every CEO leaned over to his or her CIO and CTO and said, “we got to figure out big data.” Five years ago, they leaned over and said, “we got to figure out cloud.” This year, every CEO is asking their team to figure ...


David Callé
19 May 2017

Visual Studio Code is now available as a snap on Ubuntu

Desktop Article

There is a new desktop snap in the Snap store: Visual Studio Code. A versatile and open source code editor Launched in 2015 by Microsoft, Visual Studio Code has imposed itself as one of the preferred code editors in the developer community. Cross-platform (powered by Electron), it features a marketplace of more than 3000 extensions where ...