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Kyle Fazzari
27 January 2017

ROS on arm64 with Ubuntu Core

Internet of Things Article

Previous Robot Operating System (ROS) releases only supported i386, amd64, and armhf. I even tried building ROS Indigo from source for arm64 about a year ago, but ran into dependency issues with a missing sbcl. Well, with surprisingly little fanfare, ROS Kinetic was released with support for arm64 in their prebuilt archive! I thought it ...


James Donner
27 January 2017

Deploying The Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes onto AWS

Cloud and server Article

  This week, we announced the availability of release 1.5.2 of The Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes. This is a pure upstream kubernetes developed in collaboration with Google that works across all major public clouds and private infrastructure. We’re excited for people to try out the Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes, so we’ve put ...


Guest
26 January 2017

Using the ubuntu-app-platform content interface in app snaps

Internet of Things Article

This is a guest post by Olivier Tilloy, Engineer at Canonical. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact [email protected] Recently the ubuntu-app-platform snap has been made available in the store for application developers to build their snaps without bundling all their dependencies. The ubuntu-app-platform ...


Jorge O. Castro
24 January 2017

Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes – Release 1.5.2

Cloud and server Article

We’re proud to announce support for Kubernetes 1.5.2 in the Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes. This is a pure upstream distribution of Kubernetes, designed to be easily deployable to public clouds, on-premises (ie vsphere, openstack), bare metal, and developer laptops. Kubernetes 1.5.2 is a patch release comprised of mostly bugfixes, a ...


Canonical
23 January 2017

What IT pros need to know about server provisioning

Cloud and server White paper

Big Software, IoT and Big Data are changing how organisations are architecting, deploying, and managing their infrastructure. Traditional models are being challenged and replaced by software solutions that are deployed across many environments and many servers. However, no matter what infrastructure you have, there are bare metal servers ...


didrocks
20 January 2017

tutorials.ubuntu.com goes live!

Internet of Things Article

We are really proud to announce that Tutorials Ubuntu went live this week! What are ubuntu tutorials? Ubuntu tutorials are a topic-specific walkthroughs, giving you a very practical experience on a particular domain. They are just like learning from pair programming except you can do it on your own! They provide a step-by-step process to ...


Amrisha Prashar
19 January 2017

Winners of #UbuntuAtMWC

Cloud and server Article

A couple weeks ago we held a competition to invite you to join us at MWC by telling us what you wanted to see from #UbuntuAtMWC across Cloud, Devices or IoT! We had some awesome entries which were very hard to limit down to 10! A big thank you to all who entered including our ...


didrocks
18 January 2017

5 Cool things Canonical does with Go

Cloud and server Article

We had the recent news that Google’s Go was awarded programming language of 2016 by TIOBE! One of the main reasons for winning is the ease of learning and pragmatic nature. It’s less about theoretical nature and more about hands-on-experience, which is why more and more customers are adopting go in Industrial settings. At Canonical ...


Guest
17 January 2017

Mir: 2016 end of year review

Desktop Article

This is a guest post by Alan Griffiths, Software engineer at Canonical. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact [email protected] 2016 was a good year for Mir – it is being used in more places, it has more and better upstream support and it is easier to use by downstream projects. ...


Guest
13 January 2017

Welcome the new Ubuntu-based Precision line-up

Desktop Article

This is a guest post by Barton George from Dell. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact [email protected] Today I am excited to announce the next generation of our Ubuntu-based Precision mobile workstation line. Not only have we revamped the current line-up but we have also added the Precision 5720 All-in- ...


David Callé
9 January 2017

How to snap: introducing classic confinement

Desktop Article

Last Thursday, January 5, the snapd team was delighted to announce a new release of snapd (2.20), the daemon that enables systems to work with snaps and provides the snap command. It’s time we take a look at the most prominent feature of this release: classic confinement. A new relaxed security policy for snaps, aimed at ...