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Grazina Borosko
28 April 2016

Wallpaper design for Xenial Xerus 16.04

Ubuntu Featured

April marks the release of Xerus 16.4 and with it we bring a new design of our iconic wallpaper. This post will take you through our design process and how we have integrated our Suru visual language. Evolution The foundation of our recent designs are based on our Suru visual language, which encompasses our core ...


Dustin Kirkland
27 April 2016

Ubuntu & IBM on POWER and LinuxOne Webinar

Cloud and server Article

I’m delighted to share the slides from our joint IBM and Canonical webinar about Ubuntu on IBM POWER8 and LinuxOne servers.  You can download the PDF here, watch the recording here, or tab through the slides or watch the video embedded below. &nbs ...


Thibaut Rouffineau
26 April 2016

Samsung Developer Conference 2016

Internet of Things Article

It’s arrived! Samsung’s big yearly developer event kicks off from April 27th – 28th in SF. A place where developers, creators and builders alike come together to discuss the latest technologies and future innovations. This year, IOT will be one of the big focuses, especially around smart home and ARTIK – their new chipset for ...


Jamie Young
26 April 2016

Ubuntu orange update

Ubuntu Design

Recently, you may have seen our new colour palette update in the SDK. One notable change is the new hex code we’ve assigned to Ubuntu Orange for screen use. The new colour is #E95420. We have a post coming soon that will delve deeper into our new palette but for now we just wanted to ...


Amrisha Prashar
26 April 2016

The most powerful Ubuntu phone is available to buy

Phone and tablet Article

We’re excited to announce that the most powerful Ubuntu phone, Meizu PRO 5 Ubuntu edition, is available to order here from en.jd.com, retailing at USD$369.99. And for our friends based in Russia, the phone can be ordered here. The Meizu PRO 5 Ubuntu Edition features superior high spec hardware and ships with the latest Ubuntu ...


Maarten Ectors
26 April 2016

Flying mobile base stations are coming to the UK

Internet of Things Article

EE, the largest mobile operator in the UK and now part of BT, just announced a collaboration with Lime Micro, a leader in the next big phase of open source mobile network technology, and Canonical (Ubuntu) to ensure the UK gets better mobile coverage. EE is heavily investing in getting to 95% geographical 4G coverage ...


Canonical
26 April 2016

Wolfram Research releases Data Drop Logging app for Ubuntu Phone

Phone and tablet Article

Canonical and Wolfram Research® are excited to announce the first app collaboration with cloud connect functionality for Ubuntu developers and users. The Wolfram Data Drop™ Logging mobile application is available now on the Ubuntu Phone and is already available to download from the Ubuntu Store. This is the first in a series of initiative ...


Stéphane Graber
25 April 2016

LXD 2.0: Live migration [9/12]

Cloud and server Article

This is the ninth blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.IntroductionOne of the very exciting feature of LXD 2.0, albeit experimental, is the support for container checkpoint and restore.Simply put, checkpoint/restore means that the running container state can be serialized down to disk and then restored, either on the same host as a stat ...


Samuel Cozannet
25 April 2016

Making deep learning accessible on Openstack

Cloud and server Article

This week at the Openstack Developers Summit we are excited to showcase how Canonical with IBM, Mesosphere, Skymind and Data Fellas are working together to make the opportunities of deep learning easier for everyone to access. Deep learning is a completely new way of building applications. These applications, built around neuronet models ...


Amrisha Prashar
25 April 2016

A DIY guide to the Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition tablet

Phone and tablet Article

With the Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Editon tablet seeping into the hands of many and questions asked around how the tablet has the ability to take on various modes – we thought we’d create a DIY one-pager that shows you how versatile the tablet truly is! Check out the guide below to follow the steps ...


TaNeisha Page
23 April 2016

OpenStack Spotlight Carlos Gonzales and Josh McJilton

Cloud and server Article

Carlos Gonzales gives some insight about his role as a Engineer Manager for our Ecosystems and his outlook about meeting people at OpenStack. What does your department do at Canonical? My department develops, supports and sustain the OpenStack distribution as part of the Ubuntu package and Canonical’s Cloud product and service offering. I ...