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anaqvi
16 December 2019

Digest #2019.12.16 –The Decade of Artifical Intelligence

Ubuntu Article

AI Competing with Wall Street –  Artificial Intelligence is replacing traders on Wall Street; what used to be a busy bustling market with chatter and cold calls are now the slight hums of machines running algorithms and executing trades. The demand for people with coding skills who can train models for intelligent trading and fight ...


Ted Kern
14 December 2019

How to build ROS 2 Eloquent Snaps

Internet of Things Article

The end of 2019 brings about the latest ROS 2 release – Eloquent Elusor. Despite an ever growing set of features and some changes throughout the ecosystem, packaging with snaps is as easy as always. Let’s go through a quick example! Prerequisites You’ll need two tools: “snapcraft,” the program that builds snaps, and “multipass,” the ...


Alan Pope
13 December 2019

Building a Rust snap by Example

Desktop Article

There’s plenty of official documentation which details how to create snaps. We live in the copy/paste generation though. So lets walk through a real-world example you can use as a template, or selectively yoink sections from. This is the first in a series of posts which break down how to build snaps based on published ...


Tytus Kurek
11 December 2019

Juju 2.7: Enhanced k8s experience, improved networking and more

Canonical announcements Article

Canonical is proud to announce the availability of Juju 2.7. This new release introduces a range of exciting features and several improvements which enhance Juju across various areas. To learn more about Juju, visit our page. Kubernetes extensions Juju is becoming the simplest way to deploy and manage your container-centric workloads. Thi ...


Sarah Dickinson
10 December 2019

ObjectBox, database for IoT devices, adopts snaps for simplicity and ease of installation

Edgex Article

When designers put their heart and soul into making super-fast, easy-to-use software to help take Internet of Things (IoT) apps to the next level, installation of that software needs to meet the same high standards. ObjectBox is a database and synchronisation solution for rapid, efficient edge computing for mobile and IoT devices. Rather ...


anaqvi
10 December 2019

Canonical Announces Support for Kubernetes 1.17

Cloud and server Article

Canonical announces full enterprise support for Kubernetes 1.17, with support covering Charmed Kubernetes, MicroK8s and Kubeadm. MicroK8s will be updated with Kubernetes 1.17 enabling users access to the latest upstream release with a single-line command in under 60 seconds. MicroK8s now brings Machine Learning deployments in seconds with ...


anaqvi
10 December 2019

MicroK8s updated to Kubernetes 1.17. What’s new?

Ubuntu Article

We’re excited to announce the release of MicroK8s with Kubernetes 1.17! MicroK8s is a Kubernetes cluster delivered as a single snap package – it can be installed on any Linux distribution which supports snaps. MicroK8s is small and simple to install and is a great way to stand up a cluster quickly for development and ...


Lech Sandecki
10 December 2019

CVE patching alone is not making your Linux secure

Ubuntu Article

Would you like to enhance your Linux security? Do you wonder what factors should be considered when evaluating your open source security from both – the infrastructure and the application perspectives? Are you keen to learn the Ubuntu security team approach? I’ve learned that CVE patching is indeed an important puzzle, but without a struc ...


haydenb
9 December 2019

Canonical sponsors WSLConf at Microsoft HQ

Cloud and server Article

Canonical is announcing today it will be a featured sponsor of WSLConf, the first conference dedicated to the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) platform. WSLConf is scheduled for March 10th-11th, 2020 and is being held on the campus of Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington. The conference brings together developers, start-up fou ...


Galem KAYO
9 December 2019

Updated images of Ubuntu for the Raspberry Pi 2, 3 and 4

Cloud and server Article

Updated 32-bit and 64-bit images of Ubuntu for the Raspberry Pi family of devices have just been released. Innovators around the world can now download 32-bit images for the Raspberry Pi 2, 3 and 4, as well as 64-bit images for the Raspberry Pi 3 and 4. With the new images, USB ports are now ...


Rhys Davies
9 December 2019

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS feature planning and priority survey

Cloud and server Article

This 10-15 minute survey will shape Canonical’s work on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and beyond. Tell us what’s important for you! We care equally about personal, community, research and commercial projects. Whether you are an enterprise IT director, or a scientist, or a hobbyist, we want to honour the contributions of thousands of developers to all ...