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Edoardo Barbieri
29 July 2022

The State of IoT – June & July 2022

Internet of Things Article

Welcome to the June & July combined edition of the monthly State of IoT series. Let’s dive straight into the most prominent news across the IoT landscape from the last two months. Canonical releases Ubuntu Core 22 for embedded Ubuntu Core is an app-centric embedded operating system based on Ubuntu. Developers can focus on building ...


Bill Wear
28 July 2022

Compassionate doc

People and culture Article

Being the best open-source company in the world means building the best open-source documentation. That’s means giving appropriate respect for ownership and prior art. We crave your feedback about how to best make that happen. ...


Bertrand Boisseau
28 July 2022

Automotive fleet management: what OEMs can learn from software companies

Automotive Article

One of the main challenges within the automotive industry today is finding a solution that allows for efficient automotive fleet management. ...


ijlal-loutfi
28 July 2022

Let’s get confidential! Canonical Ubuntu Confidential VMs are now generally available on Microsoft Azure

Confidential computing Confidential computing

On behalf of all Canonical teams, I am happy to announce the general availability of Ubuntu Confidential VMs (CVMs) on Microsoft Azure! They  are part of the Microsoft Azure DCasv5/ECasv5 series, and only take a few clicks to enable and use. Ubuntu 20.04 is the first and only Linux distribution to support Confidential VMs on ...


Anthony Dillon
27 July 2022

Design and Web team summary – 15 July 2022

Design Design

The Web and design team at Canonical runs in two-week iterations building and maintaining all of the Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Sites The Sites team develops and maintains most of Canonical’s sites like ubuntu.com, canonical.com and more.  Relea ...


Michael Iatrou
26 July 2022

Omnichannel Enablement: 4 technology success factors

Cloud and server Article

For retailers considering a transition to omnichannel, there are four key success factors to keep in mind. ...


Canonical
21 July 2022

Dell XPS 13 Plus Developer Edition now certified with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

Desktop Article

July 21st 2022 – Canonical is excited to announce the new Dell XPS 13 Plus Developer Edition has been officially certified for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Starting from August, developers can buy Dell’s flagship XPS 13-inch laptop with the latest version of Canonical’s desktop Linux preinstalled. Also, from today current XPS 13 Plus owners can inst ...


gbeuzeboc
20 July 2022

How to use ROS 2 shared memory in snaps

Robotics Article

If you already tried to package ROS 2 Foxy applications into snaps, you might have encountered the following error regarding shared memory: This log is stating that FastDDS (formerly known as FastRTPS) couldn’t create a file for the shared memory mechanism due to denied permission. Fortunately, FastDDS is smart enough to fallback to a non ...


Oliver Smith
14 July 2022

Raspberry Pi HAT tutorials part 2 – Blinkenlights and micro-Pong!

Internet of Things Article

Welcome to part 2 of our Raspberry Pi Unicorn HAT tutorial series. In this post, we learn to build a handheld micro-Pong device and a system monitor. ...


Canonical
13 July 2022

Introducing Ubuntu for Google Cloud’s Arm-based T2A virtual machines

Ubuntu Article

July 13th, 2022: Canonical and Google Cloud today announce an optimised Ubuntu image for the preview of Tau T2A virtual machines (VMs) on Compute Engine. Google Cloud users will benefit from running Ubuntu, a popular cloud operating system, on a secure, scalable, and highly cost-effective cloud infrastructure. The Ampere® Altra® Arm-based ...


Jon Thor Kristinsson
12 July 2022

High-performance computing (HPC) cluster architecture [part 4]

Ubuntu Article

This article describes what HPC clusters are, their various components and their particular purposes. It also covers the different types of HPC clusters. ...