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Canonical produces Ubuntu, provides commercial services for Ubuntu's users, and works with hardware manufacturers, software vendors and cloud partners to certify Ubuntu.


Canonical
9 April 2018

Canonical and CPLANE partner to simplify cloud management

Cloud and server Article

Recently announced, Canonical and CPLANE will now offer a distributed cloud orchestration and software-defined networking solution to simplify the complexity of managing distributed clouds. Canonical will deliver high-performance distributed cloud orchestration to its customers with CPLANE’s Multi-Site Manager (MSM). MSM delivers clouds t ...


Canonical
5 April 2018

Cloud-init v.18.2: CLI subcommands

Cloud and server Article

This article originally appeared on Chad Smith’s blog Cloud-init published its second release of 2018: version 18.2. Among many notable features in the 18.1 release and the 18.2 release, the cloud-init team has been adding some polish to our CLI tooling to make cloud-init easier to inspect and interact with. I will give a run ...


Canonical
21 March 2018

Kernel Team summary: March 21, 2018

Cloud and server Article

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: Final Beta – Apr 5 (~2 weeks away) Kernel Freeze – Apr 12 (~3 weeks away) Final Freeze – Apr 19 (~4 weeks away) Ubuntu 18.04 – Apr 26 (~5 weeks away) Stable (Released ...


Canonical
19 March 2018

Firefox Quantum snap now available on Linux-based devices

Canonical announcements News

London, UK, 19 March 2018: Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, today announced that Mozilla has launched a Firefox snap bringing their latest Quantum browser to multiple Linux distributions, including Ubuntu. Developed by Canonical, snaps are a universal application packaging format for Linux, allowing them to work natively on hundreds ...


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14 March 2018

NVIDIA GTC 2018

Cloud and server Article

Event Information Date: March 27 – 29 City/State: San Jose, CA Location: San Jose McEnery Convention Center Booth: #1227 GTC is the premier AI and deep learning conference, providing unparalleled training, industry insights, and direct access to NVIDIA and industry experts — all in one place. It features the latest breakthroughs in everyt ...


Canonical
14 March 2018

MAAS 2.4.0 Alpha 2 released!

Cloud and server Article

This originally appeared on Andres Rodriguez’s blog Hello MAASters! I’m happy to announce that MAAS 2.4.0 alpha 2 has now been released and is available for Ubuntu Bionic. MAAS Availability MAAS 2.4.0 alpha 1 is available in the Bionic -proposed archive or in the following PPA: ppa:maas/next MAAS 2.4.0 (alpha2) Important announcements NTP ...


Canonical
7 March 2018

Popular programming language, Kotlin, launches as a snap for Linux

Canonical announcements News

We are delighted to announce that the latest addition to the snap ecosystem, launching today, is Kotlin – the pragmatic programming language for JVM, Android and browser crafted by JetBrains. Being a general-purpose language, Kotlin works everywhere where Java works from server-side applications, mobile applications (Android) and desktop ...


Canonical
6 March 2018

MAAS for the home

Cloud and server Article

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 ...


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27 February 2018

Kernel Team summary: February 27, 2018

Cloud and server Article

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 ...


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21 February 2018

Canonical announces Ubuntu Core across Rigado’s IoT gateways

Canonical announcements News

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 ...


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15 February 2018

Storage Made Easy adds Charm to Canonical’s Juju ecosystem

Canonical announcements Article

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 ...


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1 February 2018

Skype now available as a snap for Linux users

Canonical announcements News

Skype snap widens availability in the Linux community with easy install and automatic updates London, UK – 1st February 2018 – Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, announces today that Skype is now available as a snap, the universal Linux app packaging format.  Available as of today, the release means that Skype can deliver its communica ...