IBM and Canonical plan Ubuntu support on IBM z Systems Mainframe

by Jane Silber on 17 August 2015

  Today, at LinuxCon 2015 in Seattle, Canonical and IBM announced plans to create an Ubuntu distribution for LinuxONE and z Systems. The collaboration with...

Guests in Ubuntu OpenStack: ODS Vancouver

by James Donner on 14 August 2015

A key theme of IaaS is that Guests are what makes the compute part of IaaS interesting. And, as Dustin Kirkland suggests in his OpenStack Summit keynote,...

7iSolutions joins Charm Partner Programme

by Canonical on 14 August 2015

Meet Mycroft: Open Source Artificial Intelligence Powered by Snappy

by Maarten Ectors on 14 August 2015

This is a guest post by the Mycroft team as part of “the startup stories”, a series of blog posts about how and why innovative companies are using Ubuntu...

France Labs joins the Charm Partner Programme

by Canonical on 13 August 2015

Ubuntu and LXD at ContainerCon 2015

by Dustin Kirkland on 12 August 2015

Canonical is delighted to sponsor ContainerCon 2015, a Linux Foundation event in Seattle next week, August 17-19, 2015. It’s quite exciting to see the A-list...

How Netflix tunes Ubuntu on EC2

by Jorge O. Castro on 11 August 2015

One of the nice things about having Netflix running Ubuntu is that the community can take advantage of the lessons they learn about running services at scale....

Ubuntu One file syncing code Open Sourced

by Canonical on 10 August 2015

Today, we’re happy to be open sourcing the biggest piece of our Ubuntu One file syncing service. The code we’re releasing is the server side of what desktop...

Golden Ratio calculated to 2 trillion digits, on Ubuntu, in the Cloud

by Dustin Kirkland on 10 August 2015

The Golden Ratio is one of the oldest and most visible irrational numbers known to humanity.  Pi is perhaps more famous, but the Golden Ratio is found in more...