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17 January 2017

Mir: 2016 end of year review

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This is a guest post by Alan Griffiths, Software engineer at Canonical. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact [email protected] 2016 was a good year for Mir – it is being used in more places, it has more and better upstream support and it is easier to use by downstream projects.

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17 January 2017

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13 January 2017

Welcome the new Ubuntu-based Precision line-up

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This is a guest post by Barton George from Dell. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact [email protected] Today I am excited to announce the next generation of our Ubuntu-based Precision mobile workstation line. Not only have we revamped the current line-up but we have also added the...

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13 January 2017

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8 December 2016

Using the ubuntu-app-platform content interface in app snaps

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This is a guest post by Olivier Tilloy, Software Engineer at Canonical. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact [email protected] Recently the ubuntu-app-platform snap has been made available in the store for application developers to build their snaps without bundling all their...

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8 December 2016

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28 November 2016

Mir is not only about Unity8

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This is a guest post by Alan Griffiths, Software engineer at Canonical. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact [email protected] Mir is a project to support the management applications on the display(s) of a computer. It can be compared to the more familiar X-Windows used on the current...

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28 November 2016

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17 November 2016

How to create snap packages on Qt applications

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This is a guest post by Software engineers Tim Peeters and Timo Jyrinki at Canonical. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact [email protected] Introduction One of the advantages of snap packages is that they are self-contained. When you install a snap, you know that you don’t need to...

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17 November 2016

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9 November 2016

How to use snaps when collecting IoT data with Predix Time Series

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This is a guest post by Ilya Drabenia, a Technical Lead at Altoros. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact [email protected] Snaps, designed by Canonical, are intended for packaging applications and their dependencies, along with the instructions for running these applications. In this...

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9 November 2016

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2 November 2016

Static code analyser for Ubuntu

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This is a guest post by Ekaterina Milovidova, from viva64. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact [email protected] Static code analysis is the process of detecting errors and flaws in the source code of programs. There is a large number of static analysis tools created for various...

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2 November 2016

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27 October 2016

Travel-friendly Lemur Ubuntu laptop updated to Kaby Lake

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This is a guest post by Ryan Sipes, community manager at System76. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact [email protected] We would like to introduce you to the newest version of the extremely portable Lemur laptop. Like all System76 laptops the Lemur ships with Ubuntu, and you can...

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27 October 2016

Snapping Cuberite

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This is a guest post by James Tait, Software Engineer at Canonical. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact [email protected] I’m a father of two pre-teens, and like many kids their age (and many adults, for that matter) they got caught up in the craze that is Minecraft. In our house

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27 October 2016

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5 October 2016

The new XPS 13 Developer Edition lands in Europe and United States

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This is a guest post by Barton George from Dell. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact [email protected] Today the 6th generation XPS 13 developer edition makes its debut in both the US and Europe (Canada to follow). This Kaby Lake-based system comes with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS preloaded and...

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5 October 2016

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29 September 2016

Meet ORWL. The first open source, physically secure computer

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This is a guest post by Daniel Nelson from Design Shift, makers of ORWL. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact [email protected] If someone has physical access to your computer with secure documents present, it’s game over! ORWL is designed to solve this as the first open source...

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29 September 2016

The making of the Nextcloud Box

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This is a guest post by Jos Poortvliet, Marketing and Communications Manager from Nexcloud. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact [email protected] The story of the Nextcloud box – a feature in our upcoming webinar – learn more here. In 2010, Frank Karlitschek founded the ownCloud...

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29 September 2016

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13 September 2016

Deploying a Spark job using Juju

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Juju makes it easy to setup and monitor a Spark cluster with a few commands. In this guide we will setup a new cluster and deploy a Spark job using this tool. According to the official definition, Juju is a service modelling tool that allows people to model, configure and deploy applications in the cloud.

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13 September 2016

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4 September 2016

Pentaho users explore the future of DevOps and Big Data with Juju

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This quarter’s PLUG (Pentaho London User Group) headed to Canonical’s head office which is nicely located just behind the Tate Modern in London. I must admit I don’t know much about what they do, but a bit of research later and I quickly saw they’re at the heart of open source, and they have a

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4 September 2016