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As part as our mission to get snaps running everywhere, we are pleased to announce that support for snaps has now officially landed in Fedora, starting with Fedora 24 and up. Big thanks to Neal Gompa who has been instrumental in landing snapd packages in the Fedora archive! Install your first snap on Fedora 1)

Canonical recently announced that the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Long Term Support) period will end on Friday, April 28, 2017. Following the end-of-life of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Canonical is offering Ubuntu 12.04 ESM (Extended Security Maintenance), which provides important security fixes for the kernel and the most essential user space packages in Ub

Meet Spiro. Spiro greets you after a long day of travel, answers questions related to your stay and can give you a guided tour – in essence, all that a hotel concierge offers. Spiro was developed by RobotCheers to enhance the customer experience and is running in hotels across China. The service robot industry is

Lots of big name industrial players are launching IoT platforms and are hopeful that their big data analytics, open APIs, and other features will catapult them to be the leader of industry 4.0. If you don’t have an OT background, you aren’t relevant. I tend to disagree. We don’t need yet another CloudFoundry, Hadoop, Time

It’s that time of the month! We’ve put together a selection of top ten snaps written in March ranging from snapping an electron app through to a simple screen recorder! To recap for those that may not know, snaps are a new way for developers to package their apps, bringing with it many advantages over

Please note that this blog post has outdated technical information that may no longer be correct. For latest updated documentation about robotics in Canonical please visit https://ubuntu.com/robotics/docs. My background is pretty heavily littered with robotics. A natural side effect of this is that I’ve published numerous posts discussing

This is a post by Mark Shuttleworth, Founder of Ubuntu and Canonical We are wrapping up an excellent quarter and an excellent year for the company, with performance in many teams and products that we can be proud of. As we head into the new fiscal year, it’s appropriate to reassess each of our initiatives.

Last year I introduced a new concept called App Logic Controller or ALC. You basically run an app store on a PLC type of device and as such any industrial protocol, edge analytics, cloud or other industrial integration is an app away. Developers can make industrial solutions in days if not hours via open source

Canonical and Amazon Web Services have been working closely together to create the best experience of the world’s most popular cloud OS, on the world’s most popular public cloud. Official Ubuntu guest images have been available on AWS for years, and underlie the majority of workloads on the service—whether you use the EC2 Quickstart, Mark

Imagine a world where developers can quickly stand-up new applications and database instances – without having to worry about limits to database growth or risks to data security. Now imagine a world where enterprises and service providers can combine this outstanding scalability and security with the benefits of relational and NoSQL data

There is a perception that IoT projects are complex, expensive and therefore limited to larger companies that have the means to manage them. However, the reality is very different. Nexiona, creators of IoT technology for system integrators, has developed a package that’s affordable to all company sizes – with a process that’s simple enoug

Last month the web team ran its first design sprint as outlined in The Sprint Book, by Google Ventures’ Jake Knapp. Some of us had read the book recently and really wanted to give the method a try, following the book to the letter. In this post I will outline what we’ve learned from our

This is a guest post by Alan Griffiths, Software Developer at Canonical. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com I’m Alan Griffiths and I’m a software developer. Being a software developer means I deal with a lot of problems that are rarely appreciated by non-developers. This is a story ab

Our March edition is packed with exciting content. We begin with our recent announcement of Ubuntu 12.04 Extended Security Maintenance providing ongoing security updates for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS at least another year. Download our latest ‘Carrier Cloudification’ eBook, or join our upcoming webinars on OpenStack, Containers, GPUs/Deep Learning

Here are the best links shared by the design team in March 2017: China’s zombie factories and unborn cities IXD17: Let’s Make the World We Want to Live In Great README A list of 30 women rocking in UX to celebrate International Women’s Day Design Better Cards Chat Systems Google gives Hangouts a Slack makeover

Canonical and OVH announced they are engaging as partners in public cloud, VPS, bare metal and private cloud. OVH is joining the ranks of other cloud providers included in Canonical’s official programme for distribution of Ubuntu guest images, Certified Public Cloud (CPC). OVH is one of the leading and fastest-growing global cloud players