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Build smart displays with mir 2.3.2

mir was designed to help systems on chips (SoCs) to reduce their development and maintenance investment in Linux graphics drivers. Today, mir works across the whole stack of devices, from desktop computers, tablets and phones, to IoT devices. You can find mir in industry GUI applications to smart mirrors, enabling developers to design inn

Supporting “I don’t care about cookies”

It all started one day when my boss turned to me and said, the legal team have said we need to ask a person before our websites can start using non-essential cookies. So we started the cookie-policy project which is written in vanilla JavaScript with accompanying styling and the back-end implemented via Google Tag Manager.

The State of Robotics – January 2021

A new start? 2020 came and went, and in the process, it left a mark in history and our lives that won’t be erased. Together, as a community, we all struggled, we all faced new challenges, we all united and did our best to help each other. We are grateful for the effort of our

Canonical & Ubuntu at Embedded World Virtual 2021

Embedded World 2021 is just around the corner and we’re excited to be sponsoring and connecting with our fellow EW-ers once again. This time, the embedded community will be bigger than ever, as the event is (naturally) going digital. In fact, we’d like to extend a complimentary invite for you to join us there too!

Regex basics

An overview of regex and how to use it, from a few different angles. Including appropriate warnings like ‘avoid regex’.

Ubuntu EKS Platform Images for k8s 1.19

This article originally appeared on Cody Shepherd’s blog. 1.19 Platform Images Now Live Following the GA of Kubernetes 1.19 support in AWS, EKS-optimized Ubuntu images for 1.19 node groups have been released. The ami-id of this image for each region can be found on the official site for Ubuntu EKS images. Like the 1.18 platform

Canonical’s Partner Program Gets Industry Recognition for its Growth and Depth of Portfolio

Canonical announced that its channel partner program has grown by five times in three years, expanding its global presence to several new markets.

Improving the code experience in Vanilla

For a long time, code in Vanilla was simply set in a monospace font, and we saw an opportunity to improve the way we deliver code examples to users. A key goal is code clarity – code is not particularly resistant to errors: a missing character (or in some languages, a space or tab) can


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Ubuntu in the wild – 16th of February 2021

The Ubuntu in the wild blog post ropes in the latest highlights about Ubuntu and Canonical around the world on a bi-weekly basis. It is a summary of all the things that made us feel proud to be part of this journey. What do you think of it? Expanding ML capabilities TechRepublic published a quick

Design and Web team summary – 15 February 2021

The web team at Canonical run two-week iterations building and maintaining all of Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Web squad The Web Squad develops and maintains most of Canonical’s sites like ubuntu.com, canonical.com and more.  Ubuntu Core 20 releas

OpenStack Ironic, Cinder volume replication and Glance multi-store – OpenStack Charms 21.01

Canonical is proud to announce the availability of OpenStack Charms 21.01. This new release includes: a tech-preview version of OpenStack Ironic operators (charms), Cinder volume replication and Glance multi-store support for Charmed OpenStack. OpenStack Ironic The latest version of OpenStack Charms brings initial support for the OpenStac

Can AI help redefine the future of finserv?

The last few years has been a time of major disruption in the Finserv sector. Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology has emerged as an important tool for providers of financial products and services to deliver more personalised and more sophisticated services to customers faster. The financial services sector is at the beginning of an ex

SageMaker and Kubeflow: end-to-end ML workflows

In June 2020, AWS introduced SageMaker components for Kubeflow. 6 months later, Antje Barth, Sr. developer advocate @AWS, presents how to build end-to-end ML workflows with Kubeflow Pipelines and how to leverage the benefits of Kubeflow Pipelines and SageMaker altogether. AWS re:invents end-to-end ML workflows Watch the video below: If yo

How to keep your Linux disk usage nice and tidy and save space

Everyone loves a clean, tidy home (hopefully). This also includes your other home – slash home, the Linux home directory. Disk cleanup and management utilities are extremely popular in Windows, but not so much in Linux. This means that users who want to do a bit of housekeeping in their distro may not necessarily have

Benefits of containers for enterprises

Within just five years, Kubernetes and containers have redefined how software is deployed. Researchers expect the container market to grow by 30% year over year to become a 5 billion industry by 2022. But what is the reason behind this mass adoption of container technology in the enterprise?  Get the full picture with our CTO’s

Design and Web team summary – 8 February 2021

The web team at Canonical run two-week iterations building and maintaining all of Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Web squad The Web Squad develops and maintains most of Canonical’s sites like ubuntu.com, canonical.com and more.  CVE table updates We


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