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Stéphane Graber
20 March 2018

LXD weekly status #39

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Introduction The focus for this week was on CEPH and LXD clustering, trying to get the last few remaining pieces to work together properly. We’ve tagged a couple more betas as we went through that. We’ve also spent a good chunk of time getting Ubuntu and Debian images to switch over to distrobuilder. They’re now ...

Canonical
19 March 2018

Firefox Quantum snap now available on Linux-based devices

Canonical announcements Ubuntu tech blog

London, UK, 19 March 2018: Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, today announced that Mozilla has launched a Firefox snap bringing their latest Quantum browser to multiple Linux distributions, including Ubuntu. Developed by Canonical, snaps are a universal application packaging format for Linux, allowing them to work natively on hundreds ...

Kyle Fazzari
16 March 2018

Your first robot: Sharing with others [5/5]

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

This is the fifth (and final) blog post in this series about creating your first robot with ROS and Ubuntu Core. In the previous post we discussed methods of control, did a little math, and wrote the ROS driver for our robot. But it still required several nodes to be running at once, and sharing ...

Will Cooke
16 March 2018

Ubuntu Desktop weekly update – 16th March 2018

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

We’ve had a busy few weeks, and so this email is a roll up of what’s been going on in Desktopland.  Last week we had a team sprint in Budapest where we got to work side by side with our teammates and colleagues across Canonical.  Feature Freeze has now passed and we’re working on fixing ...

Canonical
14 March 2018

NVIDIA GTC 2018

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Event Information Date: March 27 – 29 City/State: San Jose, CA Location: San Jose McEnery Convention Center Booth: #1227 GTC is the premier AI and deep learning conference, providing unparalleled training, industry insights, and direct access to NVIDIA and industry experts — all in one place. It features the latest breakthroughs in everyt ...

Canonical
14 March 2018

MAAS 2.4.0 Alpha 2 released!

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

This originally appeared on Andres Rodriguez’s blog Hello MAASters! I’m happy to announce that MAAS 2.4.0 alpha 2 has now been released and is available for Ubuntu Bionic. MAAS Availability MAAS 2.4.0 alpha 1 is available in the Bionic -proposed archive or in the following PPA: ppa:maas/next MAAS 2.4.0 (alpha2) Important announcements NTP ...

Stéphane Graber
13 March 2018

LXD weekly status #38

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Introduction This past week the LXD team was meeting in Budapest, Hungary. We spent most of our times working on a number of issues targeted at the final 3.0 releases. @freeekanayaka worked with @stgraber to track down an fix a testing regression on s390x, then worked on CEPH support in LXD clustering as well as ...

Kyle Fazzari
9 March 2018

Your first robot: The driver [4/5]

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

This is the fourth blog post in this series about creating your first robot with ROS and Ubuntu Core. In the previous post we worked on getting data out of the wireless controller and into ROS in a format meant for controlling differential drive robots like ours: the Twist message. Today we’re going to create ...

Guest
9 March 2018

An intro to ONLYOFFICE – now available as a snap

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

This is a guest blog written by Kseniya Fedoruk of ONLYOFFICE. Two years ago ONLYOFFICE developers released a desktop office suite that combined viewers and editors for text documents, spreadsheets and presentations. Last week ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors was released as a snap – the universal Linux packaging format. This blog explains with ...

Canonical
7 March 2018

Popular programming language, Kotlin, launches as a snap for Linux

Canonical announcements Ubuntu tech blog

We are delighted to announce that the latest addition to the snap ecosystem, launching today, is Kotlin – the pragmatic programming language for JVM, Android and browser crafted by JetBrains. Being a general-purpose language, Kotlin works everywhere where Java works from server-side applications, mobile applications (Android) and desktop ...

Canonical
6 March 2018

MAAS for the home

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

This article originally appeared on Chris Sanders’ blog MAAS is designed to run in a data center where it expects to have control of DNS and DHCP. The use of an external DHCP server is listed as ‘may work but not supported’ in the MAAS documentation. This guide will describe how I configured MAAS to ...

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