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Design and Web team summary – 2 August 2019

By Peter Mahnke, 2 August 2019

This iteration was fairly light iteration for the Web & design team at Canonical as we had a fair few people on holidays as well as a group who has gone to...

Digital signage platform Xibo launches as a snap

By Canonical, 31 July 2019

The open source digital signage platform, Xibo, is now available as a snap – the universal Linux app packaging format. Xibo provides a comprehensive suite of...

Canonical Design Blog: Amazon EC2 On-Demand Hibernation for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS now available

By Canonical, 30 July 2019

AWS and Canonical today announce the public release of Amazon EC2 Hibernation support for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Amazon EC2 Hibernation gives you the ability to...

Amazon EC2 On-Demand Hibernation for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS now available

By Canonical, 30 July 2019

AWS and Canonical today announce the public release of Amazon EC2 Hibernation support for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Amazon EC2 Hibernation gives you the ability to...

Manjaro, snaps and the spirit of collaboration

By Sarah Dickinson, 29 July 2019

Linux distributions are all about freedom of choice for the end-user. However, there is a natural element of competition too. So, why did Philip Müller, one...

Handy productivity software for your home and office

By Igor Ljubuncic, 25 July 2019

Discovery is an integral part of any store experience. Sometimes, you know what you want and need, and the experience can be short and transactional. On other...

Mir support for Wayland

By Alan Griffiths, 24 July 2019

What is Mir, what is Wayland, do I care? Shells for graphical interfaces come in many forms, from digital signage and kiosks that just show a single full...

Community Snapcrafter on MicroK8s, summits and the evolving nature of snaps

By Sarah Dickinson, 23 July 2019

In January 2018, Dani Llewellyn joined her first Snapcraft Summit in Seattle in her role as a community Snapcrafter. At that event, we discussed her views on...

MAAS 2.6 – ESXi storage, multiple gateways, HTTP boot and more

By Andres Rodriguez, 9 July 2019

Canonical is happy to announce the availability of MAAS 2.6. This new release introduces a range of very exciting features and several improvements that...

Analyze ACPI Tables in a Text File with FWTS

By Alex Hung, 8 July 2019

I often need to implement tests for new ACPI tables before they become available on real hardware. Fortunately, FWTS provides a framework to read ACPI tables’...

Ubuntu updates for TCP SACK Panic vulnerabilities

By Canonical, 5 July 2019

Issues have been identified in the way the Linux kernel’s TCP implementation processes Selective Acknowledgement (SACK) options and handles low Maximum...