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Canonical
29 September 2016

Releasing the 4.1.0 Ubuntu SDK IDE

Article Desktop

The testing phase took longer than we have expected but finally we are ready. To compensate this delay we have even upgraded the IDE to the most recent 4.1.0 QtCreator. Based on QtCreator 4.1.0 We have based the new IDE on the most recent QtCreator upstream release, which brings a lot of new features and

Canonical
29 September 2016

Canonical
28 September 2016

Learning to snap with codelabs

Article Internet of Things

I always felt that learning something new, especially new concepts and workflows usually works best if you see it first-hand and get to do things yourself. If you experience directly how your actions influence the system you’re working with, the new connections in your brain form much more quickly. Didier and I talked a while

Canonical
28 September 2016

Canonical
27 September 2016

Canonical expands enterprise container portfolio

News Canonical announcements

Canonical Expands Enterprise Container Portfolio with Commercially Supported Distribution of Kubernetes Canonical’s distribution of Kubernetes is supported, enterprise Kubernetes Support is available on public clouds, private infrastructure, bare metal Elastic solution with built in analytics for scale-out ’process...

Canonical
27 September 2016

First setup of my Nextcloud Box

Article Internet of Things

Article cited below by Hagen Cocoate and source here Last Saturday at Nextcloud conference in Berlin the Nextcloud Box was announced. Frank said it’s a part of his promise/desire to make the world a better place by bringing your data home. How can the world be a better place with Nextcloud Box? What is Nextcloud

Canonical
27 September 2016

Michael Hall
27 September 2016

Snap interview with Rocket.Chat

Article Cloud and server

Snap packaging has been gaining a lot of momentum recently, from desktop apps to cloud services, and everything in between. To learn more about the people and projects that are building snaps Michael Hall, Ubuntu Community Manager, reached out to Aaron Ogle a Core Contributor to the Open Source Project Rocket.Chat. How...

Michael Hall
27 September 2016

Thibaut Rouffineau
26 September 2016

Canonical joins Linaro and co-founds LITE project

Article Internet of Things

Canonical joins Linaro as one of the founding members of the LITE project, fostering collaboration and interoperability in the IoT and embedded space. “Linaro the collaborative engineering organization developing open source software for the ARM® architecture, today announced the launch of the Linaro IoT and Embedded...

Thibaut Rouffineau
26 September 2016

Thibaut Rouffineau
22 September 2016

Rocket.chat, a new snap is landing on your Nextcloud Box and beyond

Article Internet of Things

Last week Nextcloud, Western Digital and Canonical launched the Nextcloud box, a simple box powered by a Raspberry Pi to easily build a private cloud storage service at home . With the Nextcloud box, you are already securely sharing files with your colleagues, friends, and/or family. The team at Rocket.chat has been...

Thibaut Rouffineau
22 September 2016

Charles Butler
22 September 2016

Monitoring “big software” stacks with the Elastic Stack

Article Cloud and server

Big Software is a new class of application. It’s composed of so many moving pieces that humans, by themselves, cannot design, deploy or operate them. OpenStack, Hadoop and container-based architectures are all examples of Big Software. Gathering...

Charles Butler
22 September 2016

Ellen Arnold
21 September 2016

Leostream joins Canonical’s Charm partner programme

Article Cloud and server

Leostream Corporation, a leading developer of hosted desktop connection management software, has joined the Charm partner programme to facilitate the deployment of virtual desktops on Ubuntu OpenStack. The partner program helps solution providers make best use of Canonical’s model driven operations system, Juju;...

Ellen Arnold
21 September 2016

Will Cooke
19 September 2016

Low Graphics Mode in Unity 7

Article Desktop

Unity 7 has had a low graphics mode for a long time but recently we’ve been making it better. Improvements have been made to reduce the amount of visual effects that are seen while running in low graphics mode. At a high level this includes things like: Reducing the amount of animation in elements such as the window...

Will Cooke
19 September 2016

Canonical
19 September 2016

Ubuntu OpenStack is available today on all IBM servers

News Canonical announcements

IBM and Canonical expand Hybrid Cloud Alliance as Ubuntu OpenStack is available today on all IBM servers Ubuntu OpenStack support included with Canonical’s Ubuntu Advantage enterprise-grade support offering. Ubuntu OpenStack is the only OpenStack offered by a commercial Linux distributor that supports IBM Power Systems...

Canonical
19 September 2016

Richard Collins
19 September 2016

Over-The-Air 13 has landed

Article Phone and tablet

Our latest OTA-13 has landed and we’re excited to share the key updates below! General Features Copy/paste can now be carried out with legacy apps Settings and indicators New notifications panel with per-app settings for sound, vibrate, message bubble Keyboard indicator The updates panel has been reworked to improve...

Richard Collins
19 September 2016

Thibaut Rouffineau
16 September 2016

Nextcloud Box – a private cloud and IoT solution for home users

News Internet of Things

Companies launch Raspberry Pi-based device to enable consumers greater control over their data Stuttgart, Germany – September 16, 2016 – Nextcloud, Canonical and WDLabs, are today launching the Nextcloud Box, a secure, private, self-hosted cloud and Internet of Things (IoT) platform giving consumers a way to take back...

Thibaut Rouffineau
16 September 2016

Maarten Ectors
15 September 2016

The future of your smart home

Article Internet of Things

You can’t hide from the Internet of Things [IoT] any more. IoT is mentioned in the press almost weekly now, if not daily. Even your grandmother is talking about IoT. Smart thermostats, devices that listen to and understand you, buttons you push to get products delivered, smart televisions, fridges, washing machines,...

Maarten Ectors
15 September 2016