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Rhys Davies
13 August 2020

Develop Uno Platform projects on Linux with Visual Studio

Internet of Things Article

Uno Platform is bringing their support to Linux. Uno allows you to build native mobile, desktop, and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML from a single code base. You can build Linux applications with Uno using Visual Studio and Ubuntu on WSL. In collaboration with Uno, we built a mock-up snap that measures and adjusts ...


Canonical
11 August 2020

Kubernetes 1.19 release candidate available for testing

Canonical announcements Article

The Kubernetes 1.19 release candidate is now available for download and experimentation ahead of general availability later this month. You can try it now with MicroK8s. To get the latest Kubernetes on your machine, install MicroK8s and get a lightweight, zero-ops K8s cluster in no time: sudo snap install microk8s –channel=1.19/candidate ...


haydenb
7 August 2020

Next WSLConf date set, CFP now open through 15th August

Ubuntu Article

WSLConf is the first and only community conference dedicated to Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Canonical proudly sponsored the first WSLConf in March 2020. Since then Ubuntu 20.04 on WSL 2 has arrived and support for AI/ML workloads is available in Windows Insiders. With WSL growing, WSLConf community organizers did not want to wait a ...


Adi Singh
7 August 2020

The State of Robotics – July 2020

Robotics Article

We know a lot of you are on vacation so we’ll keep this month’s State of Robotics edition short and sweet. Try out the Hello World of ROS Looking for an easy way to get familiar with ROS 2? We recently published a few helpers on how to simulate robots with turtlesim to help our ...


Canonical
6 August 2020

Infographic: Ubuntu from 2004 to 20.04 LTS

Canonical announcements Article

Today, the first point release of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS went live! To celebrate, we wanted to share how Ubuntu has evolved since the first release in 2004 to where we are today with 20.04. Thanks to those in the community and our users for your contributions and joining us on this journey. Upgrade to Ubuntu ...


Rhys Davies
6 August 2020

Set up Collabora Online on the Nextcloud Ubuntu Appliance

Internet of Things Article

Alongside five popular software projects, we recently launched a new initiative called Ubuntu Appliances. A portfolio of software that allows users to turn a Raspberry Pi or an Intel NUC into a secure, self-hosted device. The initial launch included the Nextcloud Ubuntu Appliance. An application that enables you to host your own cloud, on ...


Anthony Dillon
4 August 2020

Design and Web team summary – 4th August 2020

Design Article

The web team here at Canonical run two week iterations. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Meet the team Hi everyone! Jeff Pihach I’m the Canadian 🇨🇦 on the Web Team here at Canonical. I joined Canonical as a software engineer around 8 years ago and since then ...


liam zheng
4 August 2020

Advantech releases EPC-C301 for machine vision applications with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Internet of Things Article

Advantech, a leading global provider of intelligent IoT systems and embedded platforms, is pleased to announce EPC-C301, a compact fanless box PC powered by 8th Gen. Intel® Core™ processor. This system features diverse domain-focused I/O and can operate in broad temperature ranges. EPC-C301 integrates Intel® and Canonical technologies, pr ...


Alex Chalkias
31 July 2020

Charmed OSM Release EIGHT available from Canonical

Canonical announcements Article

Canonical is proud to announce the general availability of OSM release EIGHT images in it’s Charmed OSM distribution. As of Release SEVEN, OSM is able to orchestrate containerised network functions (CNFs) leveraging Kubernetes as the underlying infrastructure for next-generation 5G services. Release EIGHT follows the same direction and br ...


Alex Murray
29 July 2020

Mitigating BootHole – ‘There’s a hole in the boot’ – CVE-2020-10713 and related vulnerabilities

Cloud and server Article

Responsible disclosure and coordinated response as a benefit to all Today we released USN-4432-1 announcing updates for a series of vulnerabilities termed BootHole / ‘There’s a hole in the boot’ in GRUB2 (GRand Unified Bootloader version 2) that could allow an attacker to subvert UEFI Secure Boot. The original vulnerability, CVE-2020-1071 ...


anastasiavalti
28 July 2020

Canonical at KubeCon Europe Virtual 2020

Kubernetes Events

Book a meeting Date: August 17-20Location: Everywhere – this year’s KubeCon is virtual! Booth: Canonical This year has been an adventurous one to say the least… but that should get in the way of the community getting together, exchanging ideas, and keeping up with what’s new in the sphere of Kubernetes. In fact, it’s all ...