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7 posts from June 2020

Installing ROS in LXD Containers

By sidfaber, 29 June 2020

It’s the season for updates. The last few weeks have ushered in ROS 1 Noetic and ROS 2 Foxy, both of which target the recently released Ubuntu 20.04 Focal...

Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS pre-installed is now available

By Canonical, 23 June 2020

The Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition is now available in North America and selected EMEA countries* certified with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS pre-installed to work...

Is Ubuntu an enterprise Linux distribution?

By Tytus Kurek, 16 June 2020

Is Ubuntu an enterprise Linux distribution? If you are asking, you are probably wondering if you can use Ubuntu anywhere else other than your workstation or...

Productivity is but a snap away – useful applications for your everyday needs

By Igor Ljubuncic, 12 June 2020

The state of being productive comes in various guises. Sometimes, you want to do more. Sometimes, you want less. It’s been a while since we toured the Snap...

People and processes behind “Ubuntu certified” devices

By Pierre Equoy, 10 June 2020

While searching for your next GNU/Linux enabled computer, you may have found that some vendors such as Dell, HP and Lenovo sell a selection of desktops and...

Fabrica – Your self-hosted snap factory

By Igor Ljubuncic, 5 June 2020

There are many ways one can go about building snaps. You can do it on your local system, by manually running commands in a terminal window. If you have a...

Getting started with cross-platform development using .NET on Ubuntu on WSL

By haydenb, 3 June 2020

.NET is an open source software framework for building cross-platform applications on Linux, Windows, and macOS. Ubuntu on WSL allows you to build and test...