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Canonical
6 July 2016

Canonical and Pivotal Collaborate to Deliver Cloud Native Platform

Cloud and server Article

Ubuntu to Become Preferred Linux OS for Pivotal Cloud Foundry Leveraging Canonical’s Ubuntu Advantage (UA) Support Services Automated Approach to Security Patch Management Provides Game-changing, Rapid Response Approach to Linux Vulnerabilities for Pivotal Cloud Foundry Customers Future Commitment to Formalize Industry Security Certificat ...


Didier Roche
6 July 2016

Announcing new snap desktop launchers

Desktop Article

BackgroundIntegrating desktop applications with snaps has been a little bit challenging in terms of getting them looking and behaving as part of the system. This means following general desktop theming, having global application menu integration, getting the icon caches, getting configuration keys and such. Also, the technologies and tool ...


Canonical
5 July 2016

e-shelter and Canonical launch Joint Managed OpenStack Private Cloud

Cloud and server News

Quick, easy and cost-predictable way to get a fully functional OpenStack cloud Built on Ubuntu OpenStack and using application management tools Juju and MaaS Fully managed cloud service takes away the hassle of day to day IT operations Frankfurt, Germany and London, U.K. 5th July, 2016 – e-shelter, leading data center operator in Europe a ...


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4 July 2016

Ubuntu App Developer Blog: Shaping up universal snaps

Ubuntu Article

Following the announcement of snaps being supported across a range of key Linux distributions, the development teams working on snaps and Snapcraft are making universal snaps one of the main topics of their next sprint in Heidelberg, Germany, from 18-2 ...


Joseph Williams
4 July 2016

Juju Lithuania sprint recap

Ubuntu Notes

Last month the Juju design team was away in Lithuania, Vilnius on a working sprint. We met up with the distributed development team to help tackle technical and design issues. These sprints take away the barrier of time zones — which usually make it harder to ask engineers questions about features that are being designed. ...


Alexander Gallagher
1 July 2016

Certified Ubuntu Images Available in SoftLayer

Ubuntu Article

We are excited to announce today that SoftLayer, an IBM Company and a world-leading IaaS provider, is now an Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud partner for Ubuntu guest images. For users, this means you can now harness the value of the best Ubuntu user experience, optimized for SoftLayer bare metal and virtual servers: Ubuntu cloud guest ...


June’s reading list

Ubuntu Notes

Here are the best links shared by the design team over the last month: SuperHi Summer School Cartographic ethics: Oceania, the truncated continent New Google Fonts The True Size Of … Cartography Comparison: Google Maps & Apple Maps Web Accessibility: Developing with Empathy Improving UX For Color-Blind Users Invisible Design: Co-Designing ...


Grazina Borosko
30 June 2016

Design festival OFFF – “Let’s Feed the Future”

Ubuntu Featured

Every year since 2001, creatives from different design disciplines meet and share their ideas and innovations about digital, interaction and print design in the design festival called OFFF. This festival was previously held in different countries, but has now found its home in Barcelona at the Design Museum. For three days the festival wa ...


Paty Davila
30 June 2016

China Launch Sprint – paving the roadmap

Ubuntu Design

Last week I was invited to Beijing to take part in the China Launch Sprint. The focus of the sprint was to identify action items in our product roadmap for the next devices that will ship Ubuntu Touch in the Chinese market later this year. I am a lead UX designer in the product strategy ...


Canonical
29 June 2016

Snapcraft 2.12: an ecosystem of parts, qmake and gulp

Cloud and server Article

Snapcraft 2.12 is here and is making its way to your 16.04 machines today.This release takes Snapcraft to a whole new level. For example, instead of defining your own project parts, you can now use and share them from a common, open, repository. This ...


Luca Paulina
28 June 2016

Juju GUI 2.0

Ubuntu Featured

Juju is a cloud orchestration tool which enables users to build models to run applications. You can just as easily use it to deploy a simple WordPress blog or a complex big data platform. Juju is a command line tool but also has a graphical user interface (GUI) where users can choose services from a ...