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Hugo Huang
22 November 2021

FIPS on Google Cloud

Cloud and server Article

In August 2016, the United States government announced a new federal source-code policy, which mandates that at least 20% of custom source code developed by or for any agency of the federal government must be released as open-source software (OSS). The memo of this policy also states that the Federal Government spends more than $6 ...


Holly Hall
19 November 2021

Top 10 apps to boost your productivity

Apps Article

Winter is rolling in (for those in the Northern Hemisphere at least). Long summer evenings are on hold for now. In these colder months, it can be difficult to get back into work and feel efficient. But whether you are feeling tired, unorganised, or demotivated, there may be an application here to help you refocus ...


Malina
17 November 2021

Canonical chez Cloud Expo Europe Paris 2021

Ubuntu Article

Le salon Cloud Expo Europe Paris ouvre ses portes aux cadres et experts du Cloud et de la transformation digitale. Canonical sera présent en tant que Gold sponsor pour présenter les tendances et stratégies émergentes des leaders de l’industrie dans le cadre du DevOps live. Inscrivez-vous gratuitement Prenez rendez-vous Réduire les coûts i ...


Daniele Procida
17 November 2021

The future of documentation at Canonical

Community Article

Our software documentation is part of how we talk to each other – our users, our colleagues, our community. It’s a way we demonstrate how we value each other – including how we value you.  We’ve understood the importance of this for some time, but actually finding a way to express those values in our ...


Anthony Dillon
16 November 2021

Design and Web team summary – 16 November 2021

Design Design

The Web and design team at Canonical run 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. Meet the team Hi! My name is Marina and I’m a senior UX Designer in the Workplace Engineering squad. We ...


Hugo Huang
16 November 2021

Secure your Open-Source Freedom for 10 years

Cloud and server Article

If this is your desire, it is Ubuntu Pro’s commitment: “Ubuntu Pro will secure your Open-Source Freedom for 10 years”. Security and Freedom shouldn’t be a debate, a trade-off, even a dilemma. Security shouldn’t be your concern when you embrace Open-Source. A 10-year commitment Canonical backs Ubuntu Pro for 10 years, ensuring security upd ...


Gabriel Aguiar Noury
12 November 2021

The‌ ‌State‌ ‌of‌ ‌Robotics‌ ‌-‌ ‌October‌ ‌2021‌ ‌

Robotics Article

October went fast, full of news and packed with interesting robotics applications. This month certainly doesn’t need an intro, so we will let the news take all your attention.    ROS CVE alert- ensuring security for robotics Early in October 2021, Open Robotics registered a CVE security vulnerability that affects ROS Kinetic, Melodic and ...


Igor Ljubuncic
12 November 2021

Snapcraft offline mode – Build snaps while saving data

Ubuntu Article

As part of the snap creation cycle, the Snapcraft tool creates isolated build instances inside which all of the necessary work – download of sources, compilation, packaging, etc. – is done in a safe manner, without touching the host system. While there are many advantages to the use of the virtual machines (via Multipass) or ...


Omar Ali Amin
11 November 2021

You’ll float too… If you don’t listen to your IT

Cloud and server Article

Here’s yet another hint Pennywise was trying to signal – IT has a scary face that we should all dread! If you don’t know who Pennywise is, then you are missing out watching the horrifying clown from the horror movie series It – not IT (Eye-Tee). No wonder it has become the highest-grossing horror film ...


robgibbon
10 November 2021

SQL Server on Ubuntu Pro: bringing it all back home

Cloud and server Article

Not going to lie, the Microsoft SQL Server is my all-time favourite Microsoft product. For a long time, SQL Server was only available for Windows, but not much is really sacred. So now Microsoft, in collaboration with Canonical, are distributing and supporting several flavours of SQL Server on Ubuntu Pro for Azure. I’m going to ...


Valentin Viennot
10 November 2021

Intel and Canonical to secure containers software supply chain

Ubuntu Article

Intel and Canonical collaborate to build and publish OpenVINO™ container images based on the Ubuntu ecosystem. This work aims to provide trusted, secure, and developer-friendly container images for AI/ML applications in many industries. The provenance challenge facing cloud software Today, cloud-native developers benefit from an abundance ...