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Will Cooke
27 April 2018

Breeze through Ubuntu Desktop 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver

Desktop Desktop

The Bionic Beaver, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS is here!  It’s been a busy six months for the desktop team, and indeed for everyone working on Ubuntu.  We’ve been working on making sure that your upgrade from previous releases is smooth and trouble free, tracking down bugs to make 18.04 LTS stable and reliable, and adding some

Will Cooke
27 April 2018

Canonical
26 April 2018

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS optimised for security, multi-cloud, containers & AI

News Canonical announcements

26th April 2018, London, UK: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS – the newest version of the most widely used Linux for workstations, cloud and IoT, is now available. “Multi-cloud operations are the new normal” said Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical and founder of Ubuntu. “Boot-time and performance-optimised images of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS...

Canonical
26 April 2018

Sarah Dickinson
24 April 2018

Ora as a snap: ensuring users are benefiting from the latest version

Article Desktop

Ora is a user-friendly task management service with integrated time-tracking, reports, list view, git integrations and many other features. Often referred to by users as ‘the sweet spot between Trello and Jira’, Ora provides almost a complete match of Jira’s feature set but in a new and more accessible way. Last month,...

Sarah Dickinson
24 April 2018

Will Cooke
13 April 2018

Ubuntu Desktop weekly update – 13 April 2018

Article Desktop

Wow, only two weeks to go until the Beaver is born, this cycle seems have flown by.  So what’s been going on in the last couple of weeks, and what can we expect to change in the run up to release day? We’re still working on adding a new first-login experience to guide people through

Will Cooke
13 April 2018

Anthony Dillon
10 April 2018

Design and Web team summary – 10 April 2018

Article Cloud and server

MAAS squad Homepage A/B test completes The team ran an A/B test on two homepage designs. Based on Google analytics experiment data and Crazy egg scroll-map data for both A and B versions. The resulting winner was B. Which has now been made the permanent homepage. MAAS Vanilla integration teething fixes The MAAS squad have

Anthony Dillon
10 April 2018

Sarah Dickinson
29 March 2018

Growing ONLYOFFICE through snaps and the Snap Store

Article Desktop

  ONLYOFFICE is a project developed by IT experts from the Latvian company Ascensio System SIA. WIth ONLYOFFICE business solutions, which are the primary product range, you can run a fast and secure cloud office that comprises powerful online document editors and multiple business tools (CRM, project management, mail...

Sarah Dickinson
29 March 2018

Sarah Dickinson
26 March 2018

CircleCI evangelist looks to snaps to bridge cross-distro divide

Article Desktop

CircleCI helps developers test software and deploy it quickly but at a high standard. It is a key element of many developer’s DevOps toolsets. Ricardo Feliciano wears two hats – one as an avid community advocate (under the guise of FelicianoTech) and the other as Developer Evangelist at CircleCI. Ricardo joined the...

Sarah Dickinson
26 March 2018

Will Cooke
23 March 2018

Ubuntu Desktop weekly update – 23rd March 2018

News Desktop

Bid “bonjour” to our Bionic Beaver!   Along with a sneak preview of our official Bionic mascot, it’s a short update this week as we’re all heads-down in bug fixing mode.  There are a couple of links to check out if you’re interested in what sort of data we want to collect about hardware and setup,

Will Cooke
23 March 2018

Canonical
19 March 2018

Firefox Quantum snap now available on Linux-based devices

News Canonical announcements

London, UK, 19 March 2018: Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, today announced that Mozilla has launched a Firefox snap bringing their latest Quantum browser to multiple Linux distributions, including Ubuntu. Developed by Canonical, snaps are a universal application packaging format for Linux, allowing them to work...

Canonical
19 March 2018

Kyle Fazzari
16 March 2018

Your first robot: Sharing with others [5/5]

Article Desktop

This is the fifth (and final) blog post in this series about creating your first robot with ROS and Ubuntu Core. In the previous post we discussed methods of control, did a little math, and wrote the ROS driver for our robot. But it still required several nodes to be running at once, and sharing

Kyle Fazzari
16 March 2018

Will Cooke
16 March 2018

Ubuntu Desktop weekly update – 16th March 2018

News Desktop

We’ve had a busy few weeks, and so this email is a roll up of what’s been going on in Desktopland.  Last week we had a team sprint in Budapest where we got to work side by side with our teammates and colleagues across Canonical.  Feature Freeze has now passed and we’re working on fixing

Will Cooke
16 March 2018

Kyle Fazzari
9 March 2018

Your first robot: The driver [4/5]

Article Desktop

This is the fourth blog post in this series about creating your first robot with ROS and Ubuntu Core. In the previous post we worked on getting data out of the wireless controller and into ROS in a format meant for controlling differential drive robots like ours: the Twist message. Today we’re going to create

Kyle Fazzari
9 March 2018

Guest
9 March 2018

An intro to ONLYOFFICE – now available as a snap

Article Desktop

This is a guest blog written by Kseniya Fedoruk of ONLYOFFICE. Two years ago ONLYOFFICE developers released a desktop office suite that combined viewers and editors for text documents, spreadsheets and presentations. Last week ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors was released as a snap – the universal Linux packaging format. This...

Guest
9 March 2018

Canonical
7 March 2018

Popular programming language, Kotlin, launches as a snap for Linux

News Canonical announcements

We are delighted to announce that the latest addition to the snap ecosystem, launching today, is Kotlin – the pragmatic programming language for JVM, Android and browser crafted by JetBrains. Being a general-purpose language, Kotlin works everywhere where Java works from server-side applications, mobile applications...

Canonical
7 March 2018

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