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372 posts from 2015
France Labs joins the Charm Partner Programme
By Canonical, 13 August 2015
Canonical is excited to announce that France Labs has joined the Charm Partner Programme. Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme helps solution providers make...
Ubuntu and LXD at ContainerCon 2015
By Dustin Kirkland, 12 August 2015
Canonical is delighted to sponsor ContainerCon 2015, a Linux Foundation event in Seattle next week, August 17-19, 2015. It’s quite exciting to see the A-list...
How Netflix tunes Ubuntu on EC2
By Jorge O. Castro, 11 August 2015
One of the nice things about having Netflix running Ubuntu is that the community can take advantage of the lessons they learn about running services at scale....
Ubuntu One file syncing code Open Sourced
By Canonical, 10 August 2015
Today, we’re happy to be open sourcing the biggest piece of our Ubuntu One file syncing service. The code we’re releasing is the server side of what desktop...
Golden Ratio calculated to 2 trillion digits, on Ubuntu, in the Cloud
By Dustin Kirkland, 10 August 2015
The Golden Ratio is one of the oldest and most visible irrational numbers known to humanity. Pi is perhaps more famous, but the Golden Ratio is found in more...
BQ goes global with Ubuntu
By Canonical, 10 August 2015
The successful European launches of the BQ Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition and it’s slightly larger brother, the BQ Aquaris E5 HD Ubuntu Edition, have seen the...
Celebrate the new Film Scope with DJ Yoda
By Amrisha Prashar, 7 August 2015
With the launch of the new Film Scope on the Ubuntu phone, users can now watch movie trailers, read reviews and discover film choices. We’ve managed to get...
Vanilla: Creating a modular Sass library
By Robin Winslow, 5 August 2015
We recently introduced Vanilla framework, a light-weight styling framework which is intended to replace the old Guidelines framework as the basis for our...
The first app-enabled spider
By Maarten Ectors, 5 August 2015
If you are into robot spiders then the erle-spider is something to look forward to. It will be the first app-enabled Snappy Ubuntu Core and ROS powered robot...
Juju: Re-Framing the Discussion
By Randall Ross, 4 August 2015
A while back, just before Dockercon 2015, the friendly folks behind Ubuntu, Juju, LXD, and a whole bunch of other goodness hosted a special event that was all...
Introducing Turku: Cloud-Friendly Backups for Your Infrastructure
By Ryan Finnie, 4 August 2015
It’s a topic many people don’t like to think about: backups. In addition to making sure your cloud environments are correctly deployed, highly available,...
NFV with Juniper OpenContrail and Ubuntu OpenStack: ODS Vancouver
By James Donner, 3 August 2015
Arguably, the pressure on carriers to find new and innovative ways to develop and deliver new, sticky services has never been greater. Wannabe service...