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If you have been using computers for some time now, you probably have fond memories of this or that piece of software from the past, an application or a game that was fun, useful and just plain great, but which isn’t available any longer. For those who have had a chance to experience the digital

This article originally appeared on Joshua Powers’ blog Ubuntu is the industry-leading operating system for cloud hosts and guests. Every day millions of Ubuntu instances are launched in private and public clouds around the world. Many launched right on top of Ubuntu itself. Canonical takes pride in offering the latest virtualization stac

This article originally appeared on Joshua Powers’ blog The Ubuntu Server Live Installer, introduced with the release of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver), provides a live Ubuntu Server environment along with a streamlined server installation experience. Building on guided installs for LVM, RAID, encrypted disks and advanced networking con

(Canonical recently added Apache Cassandra to its Managed Apps portfolio, based on customer demand. Want any cloud app managed? Reach out to Canonical now. You can also watch this webinar on how Managed Apps will help you maintain focus on your business, for more information.) It’s no secret that organisations have a love-hate relationshi

This article originally appeared on Joshua Powers’ blog One of the most exciting security enhancements in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) is the ability to use the Fast Identity Online (FIDO) or Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) devices with SSH. By using a second authentication factor via a device, users can add another layer of security

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) was officially released on April 23. This is the latest Ubuntu Long Term Support (LTS) release, with security patches and updates available until 2025. If you are currently using an older version of Ubuntu, you may be interested in upgrading. In this tutorial, we will show how to safely upgrade

*Information and resources around robotics during the COVID-19 pandemic can be found at the end of this article.* So, we’ve passed the first quarter of 2020. What have we learned? You don’t need us to tell you that, but robots are still cool As usual, this State of Robotics post discusses work the Ubuntu robotics

The new High Quality (HQ) camera from the people over at Raspberry Pi is now available. And as they say, it is really rather good. It has the option for interchangeable lenses, a 12 MP sensor, a distinct improvement from the previous 8MP V2 camera, and a tripod screw mount. In this post, I’ll walk

If you are a regular reader of our blog, you already know that our team got its hands on some TurtleBot3 robots. In previous posts, we have seen how to build them better, and how to improve the robot’s security with Ubuntu. In this post we will see how to build a snap to get

If you started reading this post thinking I would explain why you should go for ROS when building robots, think again. To be fair, that topic deserves a post of its own. But for this article, I’ll be using Go in the context of Golang. As in the Go programming language. As in the one

Modern-day life is fast, hectic, demanding. Time is precious, and we often need to be able to squeeze every atom of efficiency from our environment and our tools. But sometimes, the best thing you can do for your productivity is – to do nothing. Sometimes, less is more. In this article, we want to show

This is the second blog in our series releasing the WSLConf recordings. Be sure you check out the first blog here. You can also subscribe to our celebrateubuntu YouTube channel to stay up to date with the fresh content and features that will be released soon. Earlier this year, Canonical had the pleasure of hosting

On 11 March 2020 we introduced a new process for building a snap using GitHub repos to snapcraft.io. Here is all you need to know about this update. What is build.snapcraft.io? Build.snapcraft.io allows you to automatically build and release snaps from a GitHub repository. This means you can build your snaps for multiple architectures and

Here are some of the highlights of our completed work over the previous iteration. Meet the team Howdy!  My name is Ovidiu, also known as Ovi, Ovid or `solazio`. I joined the web team at Canonical about a year ago as a Front End Developer. Since I joined, I was involved with multiple projects (and

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS has just arrived. The latest LTS comes with a new version of the Linux kernel – 5.4 – which brings a lot of exciting new features, faster boot times, enhanced performance and security. Additionally, the Canonical kernel team ran benchmark tests to validate the performance improvements of the new kernel. Defining which

Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS (long-term support) is here with enterprise-class stability, resiliency and even better security. As an LTS release, it will be supported by Canonical until 2025. However, customers can extend security updates by an additional five years through the ESM (Extended Security Maintenance) service as part of their UA-I