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4 November 2016

Cloud Chatter: October 2016

Article Cloud and server

Welcome to our October edition. We begin with details on our latest release, version 16.10. Next up, we bring you a webinar exploring how to manage diverse workloads with Juju, followed by our new live kernel patching feature. We also have a number of exciting announcements with partners including DataART and ARM. If you are

Canonical
4 November 2016

didrocks
3 November 2016

10 IoT-focused desktop snaps written in October

Article Desktop

This month we’ve selected 10 of our favourite IoT targeted snaps! And to recap for those of you that may not know, snaps are a new way for developers to package their apps, bringing with it many advantages over the more traditional package formats such as .deb, .rpm, and others. They are secure, isolated and

didrocks
3 November 2016

Amrisha Prashar
3 November 2016

Ubuntu 16.10 brings Unity 8 to desktop and more snap installations

Article Desktop

The recent release of Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak includes a developer preview of Unity 8 for desktop and the installation of snaps! The universal ‘snap’ Linux packages combine both container and packaging technologies to give developers a single format to distribute their apps and services from cloud to personal computing...

Amrisha Prashar
3 November 2016

Ubuntu IoT vertical pages

Article Internet of Things

Ubuntu has long been used across various areas of IoT: robotics, digital signage and edge gateways. To celebrate this presence we’ve built dedicated pages showcasing how Ubuntu has been powering smart IoT. The pages bring to life our expertise in these fields through the deployments and stories of our partners, customer...

Amrisha Prashar
3 November 2016

Canonical
3 November 2016

Ubuntu Core 16 delivers foundation for secure IoT

News Internet of Things

Regular and reliable updates address security issues in IoT devices Snap confinement ensures applications are trusted only with necessary data Meets industry and regulatory requirements for updates, operations and security Provides mechanisms for ISV, manufacturer and enterprise control of updates Enables app stores...

Canonical
3 November 2016

Amrisha Prashar
3 November 2016

azeti using Ubuntu Core for process automation in Industrial IoT

Article Internet of Things

Do you require IoT technologies to be running smoothly 24 hours a day? Can you not afford mission critical scenarios? Azeti, a provider of IoT technologies take these situations seriously and as a result have chosen Ubuntu core to provide more stable, efficient and secure distribution to the IoT equipment they monitor...

Amrisha Prashar
3 November 2016

Udi Nachmany
3 November 2016

Open Telekom Cloud joins Certified Public Cloud

Article Canonical announcements

Official Ubuntu images for public cloud VMs, with European data sovereignty through T-Systems’ Open Telekom Cloud Data sovereignty is one of the hot topics in cloud computing—but especially over the past year as new EU regulations have come into play. At the same time, US-based public cloud providers, such as AWS,...

Udi Nachmany
3 November 2016

Canonical
3 November 2016

Join the Ubuntu community at UbuCon Europe in Essen, Germany

Article Phone and tablet

This year was the year of the first UbuCon Summit which took place in Pasadena in January. The next big Ubuntu event is just around the corner: the very first UbuCon Europe in Essen, Germany on the 19th and 20th November. The first international UbuCon in Europe UbuCon Europe is the first conference dedicated to

Canonical
3 November 2016

Guest
2 November 2016

Static code analyser for Ubuntu

Article Desktop

This is a guest post by Ekaterina Milovidova, from viva64. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com Static code analysis is the process of detecting errors and flaws in the source code of programs. There is a large number of static analysis tools created for various...

Guest
2 November 2016

Inayaili de León Persson
1 November 2016

October’s reading list

Notes Ubuntu

Here are the best links shared by the design team during the month of October: Don’t Let Email Zombies Eat Up Your Day SuperHi: Learn to code in London, New York City and online Halloween Costumes for Designers The Worst Portfolio Ever The Sanctity of Your Calendar Using Normal doors to inform your next design

Inayaili de León Persson
1 November 2016

Canonical
31 October 2016

Webinar: Deploying Microsoft technologies on OpenStack

Webinar Cloud and server

Watch On Demand In this webinar we explore the common challenges organisations face in deploying and managing Windows workloads at scale on OpenStack. We look at how Windows Charms can integrate seamlessly with existing Juju Charms to provide a powerful way to reduce workload deployments from days to minutes on both...

Canonical
31 October 2016

Dustin Kirkland
31 October 2016

Dirty COW was livepatched in Ubuntu within hours of publication

Article Cloud and server

If you haven’t heard about last week’s Dirty COW vulnerability, I hope all of your Linux systems are automatically patching themselves…Why? Because every single Linux-based phone, router, modem, tablet, desktop, PC, server, virtual machine, and absolutely everything in between — including all versions of Ubuntu since...

Dustin Kirkland
31 October 2016

Guest
27 October 2016

Travel-friendly Lemur Ubuntu laptop updated to Kaby Lake

Article Desktop

This is a guest post by Ryan Sipes, community manager at System76. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com We would like to introduce you to the newest version of the extremely portable Lemur laptop. Like all System76 laptops the Lemur ships with Ubuntu, and you can...

Guest
27 October 2016

Snapping Cuberite

Article Internet of Things

This is a guest post by James Tait, Software Engineer at Canonical. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com I’m a father of two pre-teens, and like many kids their age (and many adults, for that matter) they got caught up in the craze that is Minecraft. In our house

Guest
27 October 2016