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147 posts from 2019

Grace Hopper Conference 2019

By Canonical, 15 October 2019

We are so excited about what just happened that we felt we should tell everyone about it! A group of 24 of us at Canonical from various teams including Sales,...

Design and Web team summary – 11 October 2019

By Peter Mahnke, 15 October 2019

This was a fairly busy two weeks for the Web & design team at Canonical. This cycle we had two sprints. The first was a web performance workshop run by the...

Onboarding edge applications on the dev environment

By anaqvi, 11 October 2019

Adoption of edge computing is taking hold as organisations realise the need for highly distributed applications, services and data at the extremes of a...

Chromium in Ubuntu – deb to snap transition

By Alan Pope, 10 October 2019

We have recently announced that we are transitioning the Chromium deb package to the snap in Ubuntu 19.10. Such a transition is not trivial, and there have...

Kubectl and friends as a snap

By anaqvi, 9 October 2019

At Canonical, we build solutions to simplify the lives of our users. We want to reduce complexity, costs, and barriers to entry. When we built the Canonical...

Designing an open source machine learning platform for autonomous vehicles

By Galem KAYO, 9 October 2019

Self-driving cars are one of the most notable technology breakthroughs of recent years. The progress that has been made from the DARPA challenges in the early...

The State of Robotics – September 2019

By Rhys Davies, 8 October 2019

The Ubuntu robotics team presents, The State of Robotics. A monthly blog series that will round up exciting news in robotics, discuss projects using ROS, and...

ROSCon Japan 2019!

By Rhys Davies, 3 October 2019

ROSCon Japan 2019 was a resounding success. We took in the keynote speech from Ryan Gariepy, Co-founder and CTO of Clearpath Robotics. We demoed the first...

Design and Web team summary –27 September 2019

By Peter Mahnke, 30 September 2019

This was a fairly busy two weeks for the Web & design team at Canonical.  The first week was spent at an Engineering Sprint in Paris France. The second week...

Easy Linux Game Streaming with OBS

By Alan Pope, 26 September 2019

For many, watching other people play games has long taken over from TV as the favoured source of entertainment content. As a creator, whether you stream via...

Deploying Kubernetes Locally – MicroK8s

By anaqvi, 25 September 2019

This is the second part of our introduction to MicroK8s. In the previous blog, we introduced MicroK8s, went over some K8s basic concepts and showed you how...

Popular snaps per distro

By Igor Ljubuncic, 19 September 2019

From a distance, Linux is one big, confusing ball of passionate users and hardcore technical jargon. But as you zoom in, you can start seeing patterns – and...