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Gitter and Mattermost: two desktop apps for your future chat platform

In the hunt for the perfect communication platform or protocol, a lot of companies are experimenting, which can lead to some confusion as not everyone is...

Juju 2.2.0 and conjure-up 2.2.0 are here!

We are excited to announce the release of Juju 2.2.0 and conjure-up 2.2.0! This release greatly enhances memory and CPU utilisation at scale, improves the...

Custom user mappings in LXD containers

Introduction As you may know, LXD uses unprivileged containers by default. The difference between an unprivileged container and a privileged one is whether...

IBM & Canonical: A Virtualization and Cloud Computing (R-)Evolution

As modern IT evolves, there have been many milestones along the way. Starting with bare metal servers, followed by virtualization, then cloud computing, and...

Custom user mappings in LXD containers

Introduction As you may know, LXD uses unprivileged containers by default. The difference between an unprivileged container and a privileged one is whether...

Kernel Team Summary- June 15, 2017

Introduction This blog is to provide a status update from the Ubuntu Kernel Team. There will also be highlights provided for any interesting subjects the team...

Project Sputnik: crazy idea to community driven developer systems

This is a guest post by Barton George from Dell. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-iot@canonical.com Five years ago, I...

Vectr: a fresh take on vector graphics edition on Linux

There is new desktop app available in the Snap store: Vectr. A free vector graphics editor for the Web and the Linux desktop Following the Inkscape snap,...


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Amazon Greengrass launches as a snap on Ubuntu

Last week, Amazon launched Greengrass, their new IoT platform allowing developers to create intelligent edge software. Amazon is collaborating with a variety...

Ubuntu Desktop – GNOME Extensions poll results

Recently, with the help from our friends at OMG! Ubuntu, we ran a poll to collect data on usefulness of some GNOME Shell extensions. We limited the poll to a...

Ubuntu Server Development Summary – 9 Jun 2017

The purpose of this weekly update is to make sure our community can follow development with toes dipped in before & between jumping headlong into helping...

Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: June 9, 2017

GNOME We’ve made the decision to switch to using GNOME Display Manager (GDM) instead of LightDM. We had planned to try LightDM, and based on our...

Webinar: How to get started with your Kubernetes strategy

On-demand webinar Kubernetes and containers are an exciting and evolving technology which can be daunting for teams and organisations to plan for. As the...

Kernel Team Summary- June 8, 2017

Introduction This newsletter is to provide a status update from the Ubuntu Kernel Team. There will also be highlights provided for any interesting subjects...

Fresh Snaps from May 2017

This month we have a selection that might please those of you who like games, with apps like OpenSpades and Pin Town. Our selection is really diverse, from...

Canonical Kernel Livepatch Service now available for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS!

We are pleased to announce that we have extended our Canonical Kernel Livepatch Service to users running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS! The Canonical Kernel Livepatch...


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