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Daniele Procida
25 January 2022

The idea of a tutorial

Community Article

Sooner or later, almost everyone who looks at some software that they or their team have created imagines a user getting to grips with it, and a pang of empathy for that unknown person prompts them to think: what we need here is a tutorial. And they are always absolutely right. In the Diátaxis documentation ...


Canonical
25 January 2022

Smart, agile MLOps on any cloud – Canonical releases Charmed Kubeflow 1.4

Ubuntu Article

25th January 2022: Today, the Canonical Charmed Kubeflow team announced the release of Charmed Kubeflow 1.4 – the state-of-the-art MLOps platform. The new release enables data science teams to securely collaborate on AI/ML innovation on any cloud, from concept to production. Charmed Kubeflow is free to use: the solution can be deployed in ...


Oliver Smith
24 January 2022

Linux game development on Ubuntu: Godot and Unity

Desktop Article

In this post we show you how to set up two of our favourite Linux game development tools for Ubuntu Desktop; Godot and Unity. ...


Igor Ljubuncic
21 January 2022

Let’s build a snap together – a complex snapcraft.yaml walkthrough

Ubuntu Article

It has been a while since we talked about how to build snaps. In the past, we went through a number of detailed examples, focused on different programming languages and the use of various useful components that can be declared in snapcraft.yaml, like extensions, stage packages, layouts, and more. Today, we want to give you ...


Marina Castejon
20 January 2022

Accessible by design: How we are designing for accessibility at Canonical

Design Article

In this blog post, I will talk about some of the most important considerations when it comes to building UIs that are accessible by design and how we are approaching this challenge at Canonical to continuously improve the accessibility of Vanilla, our open source design system and CSS framework. Background When I joined Canonical in ...


Canonical
18 January 2022

Ubuntu introduces the Ubuntu Security Guide to ease DISA-STIG compliance

Ubuntu Article

January 17th: London, UK – Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, the world’s most popular operating system across private and public clouds, now offers the Ubuntu Security Guide tooling for compliance with the DISA Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. The new automated tooling builds on Canonical’s track rec ...


Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
18 January 2022

CIS benchmark compliance: Introducing the Ubuntu Security Guide

Cloud and server Article

The CIS benchmark has hundreds of configuration recommendations, so hardening and auditing a Linux system manually can be very tedious. Every administrator of systems that need to comply with that benchmark would wish that this process is easily usable and automatable. Why is that? Manual configuration of such a large number of rules lead ...


Kris Sharma
17 January 2022

Canonical Kubernetes for Financial Services

Financial Services Article

To serve today’s on-demand customer, financial institutions must become agile digital enterprises focused on delivering innovative products, services, and customer experiences.  Adopting a container-first approach represents an unrivalled opportunity for financial institutions to increase system efficiency and resource utilisation, improv ...


Peter Mahnke
14 January 2022

Design and Web team summary – 17 December 2021

Design Design

Happy Christmas and New Years everyone! I hope you are all ready for a well deserved break.  The Web and design team at Canonical run two-week iterations building and maintaining all of the Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some of the highlights from our final iteration of the year. Web The Web ...


Gabriel Aguiar Noury
13 January 2022

The State of Robotics – December 2021

Robotics Article

I will be honest, I thought that December was going to be a slow month for the robotics news. With all the holidays, I was not expecting a month with exciting announcements or events. And when I was ready to put videos of robots dancing to Christmas carols, with Christmas hats and Christmas lights, I ...


Oliver Smith
11 January 2022

How low can you go? Running Ubuntu Desktop on a 2GB Raspberry Pi 4

Desktop Article

At Canonical we’re proud to be able to offer a full Ubuntu Desktop experience on the Raspberry Pi 4. Ubuntu Desktop provides everything you need to develop software and even deploy it to Ubuntu Server on devices like the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W. However the full desktop environment is quite a lot for the ...