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Bill Wear
7 July 2021

Moving toward Diátaxis

Cloud and server Server

We discovered the Diátaxis Framework earlier this year. It’s been on our roadmap to shift MAAS doc to this cool new way of explaining things. This cycle, we plan to make it happen. You’d think it would be obvious…. Diátaxis is one of those ideas. Once you see it, you can’t figure out why everybody ...


Bill Wear
6 July 2021

MAAS 3.0 released

Cloud and server MAAS

We are happy to announce the release of MAAS 3.0. This release provides some new features and bug fixes. Here’s the tl;dr summary: PCI and USB devices are now modelled in MAAS PCI and USB device tabs are now available in machine details IBM Z DPM partitions are supported for MAAS and virtual machines Proxmox ...


Kris Sharma
6 July 2021

Finserv open source infrastructure powers digital transformation

Financial Services Article

Covid-19 pandemic has presented unprecedented challenges and opportunities for financial institutions to embrace digital transformation initiatives at pace and scale.  Finservs are enhancing their purview of digital transformation initiatives to stay relevant and create a technology foundation that enables them to quickly bounce back from ...


Leia Ruffini
6 July 2021

Ubuntu in the wild – 06th of July

Ubuntu Article

The Ubuntu in the wild blog post ropes in the latest highlights about Ubuntu and Canonical around the world on a bi-weekly basis. ...


Igor Ljubuncic
2 July 2021

How to ensure your snap uses the correct theme

Ubuntu Article

An app is an app is an app. But in the world of Linux, things are a little more nuanced. Take VLC as an example. The software may be packaged ever so slightly differently in various Linux distribution archives, even different releases of the same distribution – the av01 codec is an interesting use case ...


Holly Hall
30 June 2021

Top 10 apps for a fresh Linux install in 2021

Desktop Article

Are you struggling with too much lag? Is it time for a spring clean and a fresh Linux install? Ready to upgrade to Focal Fossa (LTS) or Hirsute Hippo? Whatever situation you are in, get started quickly with some of the most popular apps you need for a fresh Linux install. Here are all the ...


Canonical
29 June 2021

Kubernetes & Cloud Native report 2021 by Canonical

Canonical announcements Article

Industry global survey from Canonical: 85% of enterprises have yet to cross the chasm to full Kubernetes and Cloud Native adoption.Data from 1,200 respondents and insights from seven industry experts reveal rapid growth, some growing pains Read full report London, UK, June 29, 2021 – Despite high adoption rates of cloud native technologie ...


Omar Ali Amin
28 June 2021

How to use managed IT services like the Fortune 500

Cloud and server Article

How to use managed IT services to cut down your costs, optimise your operations and accelerate your private/hybrid cloud like the Fortune 500. ...


Anthony Dillon
28 June 2021

Design and Web team summary – 28 June 2021

Design Article

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


Philip Williams
25 June 2021

Ceph for Enterprise, a shared mission.

Ceph Article

This week, the final week of Ceph Month, the Ceph Foundation announced the creation of the Ceph Market Development Working Group.  Canonical is proud to be amongst the founding members of the group, alongside fellow community members RedHat and SoftIron. Open source enterprise storage The group’s primary objectives are to raise wider awar ...


Rhys Davies
24 June 2021

Ubuntu 21.10 Wallpaper Competition

Desktop Desktop

We are incredibly proud to announce the beginning of the Impish Indri wallpaper competition! (That’s the code name for Ubuntu 21.10) You can submit your artwork and read the rules over on the Ubuntu discourse. Every new release of Ubuntu comes pre-loaded with new background images that users can select ‘out of the box’. For ...