Time to Branch Out | Ubuntu
Branches are an under-used but important feature of the Snap Store publishing capabilities. Indeed as I’m writing this post, I’ve never had a need to use...
PostgreSQL: The PgMiner botnet attacks & Postgres database security | Ubuntu
Assuring the security of PostgreSQL and all open source database systems is critical as many learned with the PgMiner botnet attacks in December 2020. Having an...
Telefonica Brazil selects Canonical’s Charmed OpenStack for industry-leading cloud-based online charging system | Ubuntu
13th January 2021 – Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, today announced that its Charmed OpenStack has been selected by Telefonica Brazil to – in a first...
Productivity corner: editors, editors, editors | Ubuntu
Text editors are a curious product. On one hand, they are simple, no-nonsense digital pads for taking notes, without any embellishments or visual styling. On the...
Why LZO was chosen as the new compression method | Ubuntu
Everyone wants fast applications. Recently, we provided a mechanism to make snap applications launch faster by using the LZO format. We introduced this change because users...
Design and Web team summary – 29 December 2020 | Ubuntu
The web team here at Canonical run two-week iterations. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Web squad Our Web...
Snaps and themes – on the path to seamless desktop integration | Ubuntu
Alongside performance, theming is one of the primary concerns for desktop snap users. People expect applications bundled inside snaps to look and behave just like their...
Improving CLI output with jq | Ubuntu
Welcome back to our series on MAAS CLI operations. In our previous post, we learned how to acquire and deploy machines using the MAAS CLI. It...
Telco and Ubuntu: 2020 roundup | Ubuntu
2021 is around the corner and we had such a tremendous journey this year. Like many others, at Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, we lived different...
Migrating to Ubuntu LTS: six facts for CentOS users | Ubuntu
Considering migrating to Ubuntu from other Linux platforms, such as CentOS? Think Ubuntu- the most popular Linux distribution on public clouds, data centre and the edge....
