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Will Cooke
8 September 2017

Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: September 8, 2017

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

GNOME GNOME Shell 3.25.91 is now in Artful in preparation for the move to 3.26 before release. We’re adding notification badge support to the Dock extension. This branch has been proposed to the upstream project and is awaiting review. We’ve packaged the KStatusNotifier extension to provide support for indicators. This will provide suppor ...

Robin Winslow
8 September 2017

Command-line usability: A terminal user’s thought process

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

I’ve been thinking about the usability of command-line terminals a lot recently. Command-line interfaces remain mystifying to many people. Usability hobbyists seem as inclined to ask why the terminal exists, as how to optimise it. I’ve also had it suggested to me that the discipline of User Experience (UX) has little to offer the Command- ...

Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
7 September 2017

Kubernetes for the Enterprise: 1, 2, 3, Go!

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Sign up for our new webinar to learn about the private Kubernetes implementation packages available from Canonical, including the recently release Kubernetes Explorer and Kubernetes Discoverer. ...

Canonical
7 September 2017

Security Team Weekly Summary: September 7, 2017

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

The Security Team weekly reports are intended to be very short summaries of the Security Team’s weekly activities. If you would like to reach the Security Team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-hardened channel on FreeNode. Alternatively, you can mail the Ubuntu Hardened mailing list at: ubuntu-hardened@lists.ubuntu.com During the last week ...

Sergio Schvezov
7 September 2017

Week 35 of 2017 in snapcraft

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

This article originally appeared in Snapcraft Forums Welcome to the weekly development notes for snapcraft! This covers work from 27 August until 02 September of 2017. Highlights Added support for new ROS content-sharing use-cases that previously failed to build Revamped remote container mounting to not require an SSH connection Added a c ...

Tim Van Steenburgh
7 September 2017

Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes: Development Summary (9/7/2017)

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

This article originally appeared on Tim Van Steenburgh’s blog September 1st concluded our most recent development sprint on the Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes (CDK). Here are some highlights: Canal Bundle Our new Canal bundle is available for testing. We’ve been fixing a few issuesand expect to release the Canal bundle to the stable ...

Canonical
7 September 2017

Controlling snap releases with channels, tracks and branches – Part 2

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

By Daniel Manrique, Engineering Manager at Canonical, Online Services (Part 1) Tracks With tracks, developers can give a group of users the ability to stay on a robust, proven version of their software, even when a newer stable version has been released. Using a track can be useful if the newer stable version has some ...

Anthony Dillon
6 September 2017

Webteam development summary

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

Iteration 6 dating between 14th to the 25th of August This iteration saw a lot of work on tutorials.ubuntu.com and on the migration of design.ubuntu.com from WordPress to a fresh new Jekyll site project. Continued research and planning into the new snapcraft.io site, with some beginnings of the development framework. Vanilla Framework put ...

Gustavo Niemeyer
6 September 2017

The snapd roadmap

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

This article originally appeared at snapcraft forums released  snapd 2.27 (topic1) snapd 2.28  Improved configuration get output (topic)  Internal xdg-open implementation (topic3)  Refresh hook support (topic)  Lazy registrations on classic (topic3)  Service control on snap command (start/stop/etc) (topic3) Schedule beta Sep 4th candidate ...

Stéphane Graber
6 September 2017

LXC 2.1 has been released

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

This article originally appeared at linuxcontainers.org The LXC team is proud to announce the release of LXC 2.1. This release contains a lot of new features introduced since the release of LXC 2.0. Note that this isn’t a LTS release and we’ll therefore only be supporting LXC 2.1 for a year. Production environments that require ...

Canonical
6 September 2017

Kernel Team Summary: September 6, 2017

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Development (Artful / 17.10) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtfulAardvark/ReleaseSchedule Important upcoming dates: Final Beta – Sept 28 (~3 weeks away) Kernel Freeze – Oct 5 (~4 weeks away) Final Freeze – Oct 12 (~5 weeks away) Ubuntu 17.10 – Oct 19 (~6 weeks away) We intend to target a 4.13 kernel for the Ubuntu 17.10 release. The Artful kern ...

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