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Mark Shuttleworth
13 April 2016

Nova-LXD delivers bare-metal performance on OpenStack, while Ironic delivers NSA-as-a-Service

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

With the release of LXC 2.0 and LXD, we now have a pure-container hypervisor that delivers bare-metal performance with a standard Linux guest OS experience. Very low latency, very high density, and very high control of specific in-guest application processes compared to KVM and ESX make it worth checking out for large-scale Linux virtuali ...

Stéphane Graber
12 April 2016

LXD 2.0: Remote hosts and container migration [6/12]

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

This is the sixth blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.Remote protocolsLXD 2.0 supports two protocols:LXD 1.0 API: That’s the REST API used between the clients and a LXD daemon as well as between LXD daemons when copying/moving images and containers.Simplestreams: The Simplestreams protocol is a read-only, image-only protocol used by bo ...

Olli Ries
12 April 2016

Adding snaps for secure, transactional packages in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

The development of the Ubuntu phone platform and its expansion to IoT and devices has challenged us to solve real problems in security and reliability. These challenges apply equally to desktop and server systems and are a source of frustration for users and developers who want newer software on long-term supported releases. This has led ...

Canonical
12 April 2016

Ubuntu OpenStack growth confirmed by latest OpenStack User Survey

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

The most recent OpenStack user survey has gone live. In it we see tremendous growth for Ubuntu OpenStack in production clouds. We’re super excited about the support the community continues to show for Ubuntu. Here at Canonical we get to work with the world’s largest production OpenStack clouds, from telco to big data and pure ...

Canonical
11 April 2016

Nexenta & Canonical to Deliver Joint Software-Defined Storage Solution

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

NexentaEdge Charms now available via Juju Charm Store; Canonical to offer NexentaEdge to enterprise customers SANTA CLARA, Calif. and LONDON, UK – April 6, 2016 — Nexenta, the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS), and Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu and Ubuntu OpenStack, have today jointly announced ...

Canonical
7 April 2016

LXD networking: lxdbr0 explained

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Recently, LXD stopped depending on lxc, and thus moved to using its own bridge, called lxdbr0. lxdbr0 behaves significantly differently than lxcbr0: it is ipv6 link local only by default (i.e. there is no ipv4 or ipv6 subnet configured by default), and only HTTP traffic is proxied over the network. This means that e.g. you ...

Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
7 April 2016

infographic: How many people use Ubuntu?

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Discover the range of industries, people and services that are using Ubuntu right now. Netflix. Snapchat. Dropbox. Uber. Tesla…and the International space station – what do they all have in common? They run on Ubuntu. To celebrate our upcoming 16.04 LTS we wanted to shine a bit of light on how many people in the ...

Amrisha Prashar
7 April 2016

How life appears when all your computing needs fit into one device

Phone and tablet Ubuntu tech blog

It’s been an exciting few weeks with the launch of our first fully converged device, the Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition tablet. To celebrate this and to gain deeper insights we held a competition last month that asked the community – what their life would look like if all their computing needs fitted into one device? ...

Maarten Ectors
7 April 2016

When a projector and app-enabled software-defined radio cross paths

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

We had a chat with our head of IoT, Maarten, to discover what happens when a projector crosses paths with an app-enabled software-defined radio (limeSDR.org) Below is a list of pretty cool insights when the two cross paths that include talking to drones via hand gestures, hacking into walkie talkies and finding coverage where it ...

TaNeisha Page
6 April 2016

OpenStack Spotlight – Ryan Beisner & James Wengraf

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

This week we were able to catch up with Ryan Beisner who is an OpenStack QA Engineer. Ryan is super excited to share his experience with Canonical and his excitement about attending the OpenStack Summit. How long have you been with the company? I’m in my third year with Canonical.  In many ways, it has ...

Amrisha Prashar
6 April 2016

Phone Update: OTA-10 – New theme and color palette

Phone and tablet Ubuntu tech blog

We have a summary list of updates made for OTA-10 below! The following apps are now pre-installed by default: Email app (Dekko) Calendar app uNav   General enhancements: New theme and color palette Updated OOBE (Out Of Box Experience – provides a better initial setup experience for new users) Updated Edge tutorial VPN support added ...

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