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Snapcraft 2.12: an ecosystem of parts, qmake and gulp

by Canonical on 29 June 2016

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...

HOWTO: Host your own SNAP store!

by Dustin Kirkland on 24 June 2016

SNAPs are the cross-distro, cross-cloud, cross-device Linux packaging format of the future. And we’re already hosting a fantastic catalog of SNAPs in the...

HOWTO: Classic, apt-based Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Server on the rpi2!

by Dustin Kirkland on 20 June 2016

Classic Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, on an rpi2Hopefully by now you’re well aware of Ubuntu Core — the snappiest way to run Ubuntu on a Raspberry Pi…But have you ever...

A New Research Cloud on Ubuntu OpenStack

by Canonical on 20 June 2016

If you’re starting from almost scratch, and – where many people are – you don’t have any skill, you don’t have any training, you don’t have much of an idea of...

The Changelog Podcast — Ubuntu Everywhere

by Dustin Kirkland on 18 June 2016

I had the honor and privilege a couple of weeks ago, to participate in a recording of The Changelog, a podcast dedicated to Open Source technology.You can...

Leveling up snapd integration tests

by Gustavo Niemeyer on 16 June 2016

Over the last several months there has been noticeable and growing pain associated with the evolving integration tests around snapd, and given the project...

sudo purge-old-kernels: Recover some disk space!

by Dustin Kirkland on 16 June 2016

If you have long-running Ubuntu systems (server or desktop), and you keep those systems up to date, you will, over time, accumulate a lot of Linux...

Juju Made the Deadline

by Konstantinos Tsakalozos on 15 June 2016

Ok… I am exaggerating. Juju did not make the deadline, Panagiotis and his co-authors with their hard work made the deadline. Ah, ok you caught me lying again…...

Special report: Low latency and real-time kernels for telco and NFV

by Canonical on 15 June 2016

The kernel is the fundamental core of a computer operating system. It is the first program to load, and it manages all core functions of the computer. With...

June 2016: big software, new releases, and a CIO’s guide to telco

by James Donner on 10 June 2016

Welcome to our brand new monthly blog! This month, learn about the industry trend toward Big Software, highlights of the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS release, and our...

What’s the easiest way to start using big software? Meet Conjure-up

by Adam Stokes on 9 June 2016

Have a big software project you want to get in front of users with the least amount of barriers? Maybe it has a lot of dependencies, target runtimes, and/or...

LXD 2.0: LXD and Juju [10/12]

by Stéphane Graber on 8 June 2016

Juju is Canonical’s service modeling and deployment tool. It supports a very wide range of cloud providers to make it easy for you to deploy any service you...