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Employee spotlight: Alice Cambridge, Inside Sales Representative
By cmoullec, 20 July 2020
Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu, but who are the people behind Canonical? This blog will be the first in a series getting to know some of the different...
Best practices for an effective remote team in the world of cloud delivery
By cmoullec, 17 July 2020
Just like countless other business functions, cloud delivery has now shifted entirely to remote working for now and perhaps longer term. Canonical has been a...
ROS Security Benchmark open for public comment
By sidfaber, 17 July 2020
We’re pleased to announce that the Center for Internet Security (CIS) has publicly released the ROS Security Benchmark for community discussion. When...
Canonical launches enhanced GSI partner programme, bringing scalability and automation to modernise enterprise IT deployments
By Canonical, 15 July 2020
15 July 2020: Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, today announces the launch of its enhanced Global System Integrator (GSI) Programme. Alongside new...
Kubernetes from cloud to edge: A US virtual event
By anastasiavalti, 13 July 2020
Register for the event Who is this event for? After the huge success of its latest virtual event on Kubernetes for the EMEA region, Canonical brings its...
Robotics Recap: Learning, Programming & Snapping ROS 2
By sidfaber, 13 July 2020
Robotics@Canonical puts a strong focus on the migration from ROS to ROS 2. ROS 2 benefits from many improvements, especially robot security. Our goal is to...
Ubuntu Support of AWS Graviton2 Instances
By Joshua Powers, 9 July 2020
This article originally appeared on Joshua Powers’ blog Ubuntu is the industry-leading operating system for use in the cloud. Every day millions of Ubuntu...
How to manage snap updates
By Igor Ljubuncic, 9 July 2020
Updates are an integral part of the software lifecycle. Quite often, they bring improvements, vital security patches – and sometimes, unfortunately, bugs,...
MicroK8s HA tech preview is now available
By Alex Chalkias, 9 July 2020
High availability (HA) for MicroK8s, the lightweight Kubernetes, is now available as a tech preview for Linux, Windows and macOS. The Kubernetes control plane...
Canonical enables Linux desktop app support with Flutter
By Canonical, 8 July 2020
By Chris Sells (Google) & Ken VanDine (Canonical) Google’s goal for Flutter has always been to provide a portable framework for building beautiful UIs that...
Design and Web team summary – 8th July 2020
By Anthony Dillon, 8 July 2020
The web team here at Canonical run two-week iterations. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Web squad Our Web Squad...
The State of Robotics – June 2020
By Adi Singh, 8 July 2020
ROS, Ripple and reflections – In this month’s edition of The State of Robotics, we’ll tell you about the recently discovered Ripple vulnerability, the latest...
Canonical Developer Advocate Named Microsoft MVP
By Sohini Bianka Roy, 6 July 2020
We would like to congratulate Hayden Barnes, a Developer Advocate at Canonical for Ubuntu on WSL, who was awarded MVP (Most Valuable Professional) by...
Feeling at home in a LXD container
By Jeremie Deray, 3 July 2020
In this post, we will see how we can containerize our home in LXD simply managing our personal configuration files – a.k.a. dotfiles. Yeah dotfiles, named...
A snap confined shell based on Mir: Mircade
By Alan Griffiths, 3 July 2020
Mircade: An example snap confined user shell There are various scenarios and reasons for packaging a Snap confined shell and a selection of applications...
A blast from the past – Shutter
By Igor Ljubuncic, 2 July 2020
The wheel of software turns, and apps come and go. But the end of development does not always mean the end of usefulness. Sometimes, programs stubbornly...