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A technical comparison between snaps and debs
By Igor Ljubuncic, 29 August 2019
How are snaps different from debs? This is a common question that comes up in technical discussions in the Linux community, especially among developers and...
Canonical joins the ROS 2 Technical Steering Committee
By Kyle Fazzari, 28 August 2019
We at Canonical care deeply about robotics. We firmly believe that robots based on Linux are cheaper to develop, more flexible, more secure, and faster to...
Multi-tenancy in MAAS
By Andres Rodriguez, 28 August 2019
In this blog post, we are going to introduce the concept of multi-tenancy in MAAS. This allows operators to have different groups of users own a group of...
Components vs. Plugins in ROS 2
By Jeremie Deray, 27 August 2019
After our series of post about ROS 2 CLI tools (1, 2), we continue exploring the ROS 2 realm taking a look at ROS 2 components and more specifically, how they...
A guide to developing Android apps on Ubuntu
By Alex Cattle, 27 August 2019
Android is the most popular mobile operating system and is continuing to grow its market share. IDC expects that Android will have 85.5% of the market by...
Snaps help Xibo rekindle its relationship with Linux
By Sarah Dickinson, 27 August 2019
Sometimes, relationships just don’t work out. At first, it seemed that Xibo and Linux were made for each other. Xibo had a popular open source digital signage...
MicroK8s Version 1.16.0 Beta Released!
By anaqvi, 26 August 2019
We’re excited to announce the release of MicroK8s 1.16 beta! MicroK8s is a lightweight and reliable Kubernetes cluster delivered as a single snap package – it...
Kubernetes 1.16 beta now available, with support from Canonical
By Carmine Rimi, 26 August 2019
Canonical announces full enterprise support for Kubernetes 1.16, starting with the beta release, with support covering the following installation mechanisms –...
MicroK8s gets powerful add-ons
By anaqvi, 23 August 2019
We are excited to announce new Cilium and Helm add-ons, coming to MicroK8s! These add-ons add even more power to your Kubernetes environment built on...
Useful security software from the Snap Store
By Igor Ljubuncic, 22 August 2019
Overall, most Linux distributions offer sane, reasonable defaults that balance security and functionality quite well. However, most of the security mechanisms...
Jupyter looks to distro-agnostic packaging for the democratisation of installation
By Sarah Dickinson, 21 August 2019
When users of your application range from high school students to expert data scientists, it’s often wise to avoid any assumptions about their system...
How to add a linter to ROS 2
By Ted Kern, 21 August 2019
A well configured linter can catch common errors before code is even run or compiled. ROS 2 makes it easy to add linters of your choice and make them part of...
Design and Web team summary – 16 August 2019
By Robin Winslow, 19 August 2019
This iteration was the Web & design team’s first iteration of the second half of our roadmap cycle, after returning from the mid-cycle roadmap sprint in...
Linting ROS 2 Packages with mypy
By Ted Kern, 15 August 2019
One of the most common complaints from developers moving into large Python codebases is the difficulty in figuring out type information, and the ease by which...
8 Ways Snaps are Different
By Alan Pope, 15 August 2019
Depending on the audience, the discussion of software packaging elicits very different responses. Users generally don’t care how software is packaged, so long...
Why multi-cloud has become a must-have for enterprises: six experts weigh in
By Stephan Fabel, 15 August 2019
Remember the one-size-fits-all approach to cloud computing? That was five years ago. Today, multi-cloud architectures that use two, three, or more providers,...