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Etisalat partners with Canonical to Deploy NFV Telco Infrastructure

by Canonical on 13 July 2016

Etisalat, the Middle East’s leading telecoms provider announced today (download PDF) that it has built and launched its first live Network Function...

Canonical and Pivotal Collaborate to Deliver Cloud Native Platform

by Canonical on 6 July 2016

Ubuntu to Become Preferred Linux OS for Pivotal Cloud Foundry Leveraging Canonical’s Ubuntu Advantage (UA) Support Services Automated Approach to Security...

e-shelter and Canonical launch Joint Managed OpenStack Private Cloud

by Canonical on 5 July 2016

Quick, easy and cost-predictable way to get a fully functional OpenStack cloud Built on Ubuntu OpenStack and using application management tools Juju and MaaS...

Snapcraft 2.12: an ecosystem of parts, qmake and gulp

by Canonical on 29 June 2016

Snapcraft 2.12 is here and is making its way to your 16.04 machines today.This release takes Snapcraft to a whole new level. For example, instead of defining...

HOWTO: Host your own SNAP store!

by Dustin Kirkland on 24 June 2016

SNAPs are the cross-distro, cross-cloud, cross-device Linux packaging format of the future. And we’re already hosting a fantastic catalog of SNAPs in the...

HOWTO: Classic, apt-based Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Server on the rpi2!

by Dustin Kirkland on 20 June 2016

Classic Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, on an rpi2Hopefully by now you’re well aware of Ubuntu Core — the snappiest way to run Ubuntu on a Raspberry Pi…But have you ever...

A New Research Cloud on Ubuntu OpenStack

by Canonical on 20 June 2016

If you’re starting from almost scratch, and – where many people are – you don’t have any skill, you don’t have any training, you don’t have much of an idea of...

The Changelog Podcast — Ubuntu Everywhere

by Dustin Kirkland on 18 June 2016

I had the honor and privilege a couple of weeks ago, to participate in a recording of The Changelog, a podcast dedicated to Open Source technology.You can...

Leveling up snapd integration tests

by Gustavo Niemeyer on 16 June 2016

Over the last several months there has been noticeable and growing pain associated with the evolving integration tests around snapd, and given the project...

sudo purge-old-kernels: Recover some disk space!

by Dustin Kirkland on 16 June 2016

If you have long-running Ubuntu systems (server or desktop), and you keep those systems up to date, you will, over time, accumulate a lot of Linux...

Juju Made the Deadline

by Konstantinos Tsakalozos on 15 June 2016

Ok… I am exaggerating. Juju did not make the deadline, Panagiotis and his co-authors with their hard work made the deadline. Ah, ok you caught me lying again…...

Special report: Low latency and real-time kernels for telco and NFV

by Canonical on 15 June 2016

The kernel is the fundamental core of a computer operating system. It is the first program to load, and it manages all core functions of the computer. With...