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Canonical
18 April 2019

Open infrastructure, developer desktop and IoT are the focus for Ubuntu 19.04

Cloud and server Article

18th April, 2019: Canonical today announced the release of Ubuntu 19.04, focused on open infrastructure deployments, the developer desktop, IoT, and cloud to edge software distribution. “The open-source-first on Ubuntu movement in telco, finance, and media has spread to other sectors. From the public cloud to the private data center to th ...


Chad Smith
17 April 2019

Ubuntu Server development summary – 16 April 2019

Cloud and server Article

Hello Ubuntu Server The purpose of this communication is to provide a status update and highlights for any interesting subjects from the Ubuntu Server Team. If you would like to reach the server team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-server channel on Freenode. Alternatively, you can sign up and use the Ubuntu Server Team ...


Eric Jensen
16 April 2019

Industrial & Embedded Linux: Looking Ahead

Internet of Things Article

I recently returned from an extended visit to Germany, where my colleagues and I kept busy attending conferences, visiting customers and partners. We travelled around the country, talking to many, many people at dozens of companies about embedded Linux. We confirmed existing trend data, and gained exciting new insights! Now that I’m back, ...


Canonical
11 April 2019

On the Case – High Resource Usage

Cloud and server Article

A customer recently submitted a case that Pedro Principeza, a Canonical Support Engineer, was able to solve using an interesting technique. Principeza was contacted to help pinpoint the processes that were generating a high rate of I/O operations, affecting server performance. Implementing a trace to pinpoint workload usage was the best s ...


Igor Ljubuncic
11 April 2019

Make compelling videos with free software: Director’s Cut

Desktop Article

Creating videos is easy. Creating great videos, not so much. A good production starts with an idea, but it also requires talent, time and tools. We cannot do much about the first two, but we sure can give you some nice ideas on the tools you want to make snappy videos. Typically, a video production ...


Sarah Dickinson
11 April 2019

Why the Visual Studio Code team launched a snap

Desktop Article

Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code is a popular free code editor with built-in support for debugging, task running, and version control. While available for Linux via tarball, rpm, and debian package options, the Visual Studio Code team had been seeking new options that would support seamless upgrades to match their rapid release cadence. Joa ...


Kyle Fazzari
9 April 2019

Speed up your ROS snap builds

Internet of Things Article

A while back I wrote a post about distributing a ROS system among multiple snaps. If you want to enable some sort of add-on story, you need to have multiple snaps, and that remains the way to do it today with ROS. That approach works, but I’ll be the first to admit that it’s not ...


Sarah Dickinson
9 April 2019

Optimising IoT bandwidth with delta updates

Internet of Things Article

As connected devices proliferate in the Internet of Things (IoT), companies need an efficient over-the-air (OTA) update mechanism for remotely delivering new software, features, firmware updates and security enhancements to potentially huge numbers of geographically dispersed embedded devices. Pushing software updates can range from a few ...


Gustavo Niemeyer
5 April 2019

API v3 of the yaml package for Go is available

Cloud and server Article

API v3 of the yaml package for Go is out, and it brings comment handling, intermediate node representations, and much more. The initial sketch for v3 of the yaml package for Go was first drafted almost exactly a year ago, by the end of March last year (2018). If this package doesn’t sound familiar, it’s ...


Canonical
4 April 2019

Visual Studio Code launches as a snap

Canonical announcements Article

4th  April 2019, London, UK – As of today, Microsoft Visual Studio Code is available for Linux as a snap, providing seamless auto-updates for its users. Visual Studio Code, a free, lightweight code editor, has redefined editors for building modern web and cloud applications, with built-in support for debugging, task running, and version c ...


Juan Real
4 April 2019

Remote collaborative design

People and culture Article

Hands up if you or someone in your team work remotely. I am sure there are many of you out there. One of the biggest growing trends, since I started working in the technology industry 15 years ago, is how common and accessible working from home has become. There are many advances that contributed to its adoption, but surely how we evolved ...