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MAAS 2.3.0 (final) Released!
by Canonical on 21 November 2017
This article originally appeared on Andres Rodriguez’s blog I’m happy to announce that MAAS 2.3.0 (final) is now available! This new MAAS release introduces a set of exciting features and improvements to the overall user experience. …
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MAAS 2.3.0 beta 1 released
by Canonical on 5 October 2017
MAAS 2.3.0 (beta1)New Features & ImprovementsHardware TestingMAAS 2.3 beta overhauls and improves the visibility of hardware test results and information. This includes various changes across MAAS:Machine Listing pageSurface progress and failures of hardware tests, actively showing …
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Windows 10 loves Ubuntu
by Dimitri John Ledkov on 11 July 2017
Ubuntu 16.04 is now available as an app from the Windows Store for users running Windows Insider builds. The newly improved app is created by Canonical in collaboration with the Microsoft WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) …
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LXD client on Windows and macOS
by Stéphane Graber on 27 February 2017
LXD on other operating systems? While LXD and especially its API have been designed in a mostly OS-agnostic way, the only OS supported for the daemon right now is Linux (and a rather recent Linux at …
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Howdy, Windows! A Six-part Series about Ubuntu-on-Windows for Linux.com
by Dustin Kirkland on 9 August 2016
I hope you’ll enjoy a shiny new 6-part blog series I recently published at Linux.com.The first article is a bit of back story, perhaps a behind-the-scenes look at the motivations, timelines, and some of the work …
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HOWTO: Ubuntu on Windows
by Dustin Kirkland on 14 April 2016
As announced last week, Microsoft and Canonical have worked together to bring Ubuntu’s userspace natively into Windows 10.As of today, Windows 10 Insiders can now take Ubuntu on Windows for a test drive! Here’s how…1) You …
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Still have questions about Bash and Ubuntu on Windows?
by Dustin Kirkland on 1 April 2016
Still have questions about Ubuntu on Windows?Watch this Channel 9 session, recorded live at Build this week, hosted by Scott Hanselman, with questions answered by Windows kernel developers Russ Alexander, Ben Hillis, and myself representing Canonical …
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Ubuntu on Windows – The Ubuntu Userspace for Windows Developers
by Dustin Kirkland on 30 March 2016
I’m in San Francisco this week, attending Microsoft’s Build developer conference, as a sponsored guest of Microsoft.That’s perhaps a bit odd for me, as I hadn’t used Windows in nearly 16 years. But that changed a …
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Cloudbase and Canonical partner to bring Windows Hyper-V Support
by Canonical on 21 May 2015
Partners bring Windows Hyper-V support to managed OpenStack clouds Cloudbase Solutions, the developer of Windows components in OpenStack, announced today that it is partnering with Canonical to enable their customers to run KVM and Hyper-V environments …
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The Open Enterprise Cloud – OpenStack’s Holy Grail?
by Canonical on 19 May 2015
The way people think about the enterprise IT is changing fast, putting into question many common assumptions on how hardware and software should be designed and deployed. The upending of these long held tenets of Enterprise …