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Ubuntu Desktop weekly update – February 2, 2018

GNOME As you might have already read, we’ve taken the decision to ship Xorg by default in Bionic 18.04 LTS. The Wayland session will still be available as an...

Snapcraft Summit summary – day 3

The third day of the Snapcraft Summit here in Seattle saw all the developers reconvene and really get down to work, and ROSHub came by in the afternoon with...

Tutorial: Install single-server OpenStack with conjure-up

OpenStack is the de facto open source standard to build private and public clouds. We believe deploying and getting familiar with OpenStack should be an easy...

Skype now available as a snap for Linux users

Skype snap widens availability in the Linux community with easy install and automatic updates London, UK – 1st February 2018 – Canonical, the company behind...

Externally exposing a LXD-based Kubernetes service

This article originally appeared on Rye Terrell’s blog   So you’ve conjured up a Kubernetes cluster on top of LXD on your dev box. Cool. You’ve created a...

Snapcraft Summit summary – day 2

The second day of Snapcraft Summits tend to be particularly productive as all the participants get more familiar with each other, and this one is no...

Snapcraft Summit summary – day 1

The first day of the Snapcraft Summit in Seattle kicked off with a simple round of introductions and each participant voicing their plans for the week. People...

Plex joins Snapcraft Summit to advance snap learnings

Plex is the leading streaming platform for personal media collections, also offering over-the-air Live TV and DVR capabilities, and curated news from over 200...


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Ubuntu Server development summary – 30 January 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....

Tutorial: Install Ubuntu on a Chromebook

Chromebooks have gained popularity as relatively inexpensive web-centric laptops. They give access to web-based and native applications through the Chrome...

NTT TechnoCross becomes Canonical Certified Support Partner in Japan

NTT TechnoCross Corporation has signed a partnership agreement with Canonical to provide strengthened OSS support to its customers in Japan including...

LXD weekly status #32

The focus of this week has been preparing for our trip to Brussels where we’ll be spending 3 days all working together on LXD before attending and presenting...

A peek at the Snapcraft Summit

The Snapcraft Summit, taking place in Seattle from January 29th to February 2nd, is a forward-thinking five day software hackathon being attended by major...

LXD: five easy pieces

Machine containers, like LXD, proliferate in the datacenters: they provide a native control plane for OpenStack and a lightweight hypervisor for its tenants....

Bionic Beaver 18.04 LTS to use Xorg by default

Bionic Beaver, the codename for the next Ubuntu LTS release, is due in April 2018 and will ship with both the traditional Xorg graphics stack as well as the...

Meltdown, Spectre and Ubuntu: What you need to know

As details of the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities1 have become clearer a number of statements have been published by the multiple vendors affected;...


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