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How to ensure the ongoing security and compliance of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS ‘Trusty Tahr’
By Canonical, 7 March 2019
As 14.04 reaches the end of its five-year, Standard Security Maintenance, LTS window in April 2019, support for the OS is transitioning into a new phase –...
Infographic: Snapcraft for developers
By Canonical, 6 March 2019
At the end of last year, we shared an infographic highlighting the adoption of snaps by users for their desktop, server or IoT devices. Those snaps wouldn’t...
MAAS – Fast and efficient virtualisation for small and medium enterprises
By Canonical, 1 March 2019
The advent of virtualisation has significantly changed the way we use IT infrastructure. In theory, the ability to share single server resources to run...
Building ROS 2 snaps with Colcon
By Kyle Fazzari, 28 February 2019
The snapcraft CLI has supported building ROS1 snaps for a while via the catkin plugin. We supported the ROS2 betas via the ament plugin, but that was before...
Using LXD on your Chromebook
By Stéphane Graber, 26 February 2019
Introduction On supported Chromebook, starting with Chrome OS 69, a new feature called Linux Apps was introduced. This allows Chrome OS users, on supported to...
Ubuntu is EAL2 certified
By Canonical, 26 February 2019
Canonical has received Common Criteria EAL2 certification. The evaluation covers a fresh install of Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS on one of the supported platforms...
Securing IoT device data against physical access
By Sarah Dickinson, 26 February 2019
Security remains the number one concern when designing and deploying IoT devices. High profile breaches continue to occur and concerns cease to subside. For...
EdgeX Foundry, the common framework for IoT edge computing, now available as a snap
By Tony Espy, 25 February 2019
EdgeX Foundry is now available as a snap, making it available to millions of Linux users and developers via the ever-expanding Snap Store. EdgeX Foundry is a...
How selecting the right Linux OS expedites IoT time to market
By Sarah Dickinson, 20 February 2019
With a proliferation of related hardware, software and solutions being rushed out to capture the promise of a multi-billion dollar IoT industry, vendors are...
Easy IoT with Ubuntu Core and Raspberry Pi
By Robert Ancell, 19 February 2019
My current job involves me mostly working in the upper layers of the desktop software stack however I started out working in what was then called embedded...
The forecast is robots
By Eric Jensen, 15 February 2019
Robots are an increasingly important part of our lives, in more ways than we realise. I’m not talking just about Roombas, or the toy robots that inhabit the...
A fresh look for releases.ubuntu.com
By Karl Williams, 13 February 2019
Updating the design of the Ubuntu Releases website using Vanilla Framework