LXD: five easy pieces

by Michael Iatrou on 26 January 2018

Machine containers, like LXD, proliferate in the datacenters: they provide a native control plane for OpenStack and a lightweight hypervisor for its tenants....

Bionic Beaver 18.04 LTS to use Xorg by default

by Will Cooke on 26 January 2018

Bionic Beaver, the codename for the next Ubuntu LTS release, is due in April 2018 and will ship with both the traditional Xorg graphics stack as well as the...

Meltdown, Spectre and Ubuntu: What you need to know

by Christian Reis on 24 January 2018

As details of the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities1 have become clearer a number of statements have been published by the multiple vendors affected;...

Kernel team summary – 24 January 2018

by Canonical on 24 January 2018

January 09 through January 23 The Kernel Team is completely focused on addressing any Spectre and Meltdown issues as they arise. A secure Ubuntu is our top...

LXD weekly status #31

by Stéphane Graber on 24 January 2018

Introduction Nothing too major happened this past week. Part of the time was at an internal planning meeting and the rest have been working on clustering,...

Ubuntu Server development summary – 23 January 2018

by Joshua Powers on 23 January 2018

  The purpose of this communication is to provide a status update and highlights for any interesting subjects from the Ubuntu Server Team. If you would like...

Ubuntu Desktop weekly update – 22 January 2018

by Will Cooke on 22 January 2018

Here’s an update on what we’ve been working on over the last couple of weeks: GNOME We’ve been working on a patch for udisks to hide snaps from applications...

Your first robot: Introduction to the Robot Operating System [2/5]

by Kyle Fazzari on 21 January 2018

Tutorial: Continuous delivery of snaps with Circle CI

by David Callé on 19 January 2018

Bullet-proof continuous delivery of software is crucial to the health of your community, more than a way to run manual tests, it also enables your early...