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Thibaut Rouffineau
15 December 2016

Research: Consumers are terrible at updating their connected devices

Article Internet of Things

Many developers and manufacturers of IoT connected devices will know that consumers are bad at updating the firmware on their connected devices, and that this fact is at the heart of many of the IoT’s security vulnerabilities. But what they might not know is just how bad. Ubuntu recently surveyed 2000 consumers to...

Thibaut Rouffineau
15 December 2016

Amrisha Prashar
12 December 2016

Webinar: 2017 – what’s in store for IoT?

Article Internet of Things

It’s nearing the end of the year! Time to take a breather and plan for 2017. As part of our ‘IoT builders’ webinar series, we have asked some of the most prominent technologists, community builders and visionaries in this space for their advice and practical predictions on what’s worth working on next! Speakers include...

Amrisha Prashar
12 December 2016

David Callé
12 December 2016

snapd 2.18: the snap command strikes back

Article Internet of Things

Last Thursday, December 8, the snapd team was happy to announce a new release of snapd (2.18), the daemon that enables systems to work with snaps and provides the snap command. It’s time we take a look at what makes this release stand out. A brief tour of new snap commands (and the improved snap find) On

David Callé
12 December 2016

Amrisha Prashar
9 December 2016

IoT Builders webinar series – 2016 recap!

Article Internet of Things

With it nearing the end of the year we thought we’d take this opportunity to recap on all the ‘IoT builders’ webinar series we’ve hosted in 2016. The series looks at those making a difference in the world of IoT today, sharing their stories, insights and practical advice! Check out the list below: Introduction to

Amrisha Prashar
9 December 2016

Didier Roche
8 December 2016

Christmas-music-carousel-snap

Article Internet of Things

Ding ding ding! It’s Christmas time, and as part of the festive competition we’re hosting that asks you to build a seasonal snap on your RaspberryPi…we couldn’t help but try out another example of our own. Didier from the dev team has created a Christmas music carousel snap! The snap allows you to play a

Didier Roche
8 December 2016

Guest
8 December 2016

Using the ubuntu-app-platform content interface in app snaps

Article Internet of Things

This is a guest post by Olivier Tilloy, Software Engineer at Canonical. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com Recently the ubuntu-app-platform snap has been made available in the store for application developers to build their snaps without bundling all their...

Guest
8 December 2016

Dustin Kirkland
8 December 2016

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Security: A Comprehensive Overview

Article Cloud and server

From Linux kernel livepatches to encryption to ASLR to compiler optimizations and configuration hardening, we strive to ensure that Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is the most secure Linux distribution out of the box.These slides try to briefly explain:what we do to

Dustin Kirkland
8 December 2016

Canonical
8 December 2016

Mounting your home directory in LXD

Article Cloud and server

As of LXD stable 2.0.8 and feature release 2.6, LXD has support for various UID and GID map related manipulaions. A common question is: “How do I bind-mount my home directory into a container?” and before the answer was “well, it’s complicated but you can do it; it’s slightly less complicated if you do it

Canonical
8 December 2016

Tom Callway
7 December 2016

Webinar: Running an enterprise-grade OpenStack without the headaches

Webinar Cloud and server

Watch Webinar On-demand In Canonical’s latest on-demand webinar, we explore how to build and manage highly scalable OpenStack clouds with BootStack on a Supermicro reference architecture. Supermicro offers end-to-end green computing solutions for the data center and enterprise IT. Its solutions range from server,...

Tom Callway
7 December 2016

April Wang
7 December 2016

Jamming with Ubuntu Core

Article Desktop

We celebrated the launch of Ubuntu Core 16 hackathon, or shall we say Snapathon, that took place in Shenzhen between 26-27th November. The 30+ hour gathering and coding session was attended by developers, makers and anyone that was interested in the Internet of Things and the technology that powers them. Attendees were...

April Wang
7 December 2016

Stéphane Graber
7 December 2016

LXD 2.0: LXD and OpenStack [11/12]

Article Cloud and server

This is the eleventh blog post in this series about LXD 2.0. Introduction First of all, sorry for the delay. It took quite a long time before I finally managed to get all of this going. My first attempts were using devstack which ran into a number of issues that had to be resolved. Yet

Stéphane Graber
7 December 2016

James Donner
2 December 2016

Cloud Chatter: November 2016

Article Cloud and server

Welcome to our November edition. We begin with details on our latest partnership with Docker. Next up, we bring you a co-hosted webinar with PLUMgrid exploring how enterprises can build and manage highly scalable OpenStack clouds. We also have a number of exciting announcements with partners including Microsoft, Cloud...

James Donner
2 December 2016

Canonical
1 December 2016

Canonical’s Distribution of Kubernetes reduces operational friction

Article Cloud and server

Linux containers (LXC) are one of the hottest technologies in the market today. Developers are adopting containers, especially Docker, as a way to speed-up development cycles and deliver code into testing or production environments much faster than traditional methods. With the largest base of LXC, LXD, and Docker...

Canonical
1 December 2016

UbuCon Europe – a sure sign of community strength

Article Desktop

UbuCon Europe, 18-20 Nov 2016, Essen, Germany Recovering from a great UbuCon Europe session that just took place a couple weeks ago! This year was attended by 170 people from 20 countries, about half coming from Germany. Almost everyone was (obviously) running Ubuntu and had been around in the community for years. The...

Canonical
1 December 2016