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  Canonical’s Partner Program Gets Industry Recognition for its Growth and Depth of Portfolio
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  Canonical announced that its channel partner program has grown by five times in three years, expanding its global presence to several new markets.

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/canonical-partner-program-gets-industry-recognition
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  Improving the code experience in Vanilla
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  For a long time, code in Vanilla was simply set in a monospace font, and we saw an opportunity to improve the way we deliver code examples to users. A key goal is code clarity – code is not particularly resistant to errors: a missing character (or in some languages, a space or tab) can […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/improving-the-code-experience-in-vanilla
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  Ubuntu in the wild- 16th of February 2021
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  The Ubuntu in the wild blog post ropes in the latest highlights about Ubuntu and Canonical around the world on a bi-weekly basis. It is a summary of all the things that made us feel proud to be part of this journey. What do you think of it? Expanding ML capabilities TechRepublic published a quick […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/ubuntu-in-the-wild-02
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  Design and Web team summary – 15 February 2021
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  The web team at Canonical run two-week iterations building and maintaining all of Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Web squad The Web Squad develops and maintains most of Canonical’s sites like ubuntu.com, canonical.com and more.  Ubuntu Core 20 release The web […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/design-and-web-team-summary-15-february-2021
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  OpenStack Ironic, Cinder volume replication and Glance multi-store – OpenStack Charms 21.01
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  Canonical is proud to announce the availability of OpenStack Charms 21.01. This new release includes: a tech-preview version of OpenStack Ironic operators (charms), Cinder volume replication and Glance multi-store support for Charmed OpenStack. OpenStack Ironic The latest version of OpenStack Charms brings initial support for the OpenStack Ironic project. Ironic has been generally available on […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/openstack-charms-21-01
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  Can AI help redefine the future of finserv?
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  The last few years has been a time of major disruption in the Finserv sector. Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology has emerged as an important tool for providers of financial products and services to deliver more personalised and more sophisticated services to customers faster. The financial services sector is at the beginning of an exciting journey […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/finserv-ai
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  How to keep your Linux disk usage nice and tidy and save space
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  Everyone loves a clean, tidy home (hopefully). This also includes your other home – slash home, the Linux home directory. Disk cleanup and management utilities are extremely popular in Windows, but not so much in Linux. This means that users who want to do a bit of housekeeping in their distro may not necessarily have […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/how-to-keep-your-linux-disk-usage-nice-and-tidy-and-save-space
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  Benefits of containers for enterprises
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  Within just five years, Kubernetes and containers have redefined how software is deployed. Researchers expect the container market to grow by 30% year over year to become a 5 billion industry by 2022. But what is the reason behind this mass adoption of container technology in the enterprise?  Get the full picture with our CTO’s […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/containers-enterprise-benefits
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  Design and Web team summary – 8 February 2021
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  The web team at Canonical run two-week iterations building and maintaining all of Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Web squad The Web Squad develops and maintains most of Canonical’s sites like ubuntu.com, canonical.com and more.  CVE table updates We have improved […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/design-and-web-team-summary-8-february-2021
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  Ubuntu in the wild – 2nd of February 2021
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  The Ubuntu in the wild blog post ropes in the latest highlights about Ubuntu and Canonical around the world on a bi-weekly basis. It is a summary of all the things that made us feel proud to be part of this journey. What do you think of it? Ubuntu Core 20 release This week, Canonical […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/ubuntu-in-the-wild
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  My FOSDEM 2021
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  For the past 4 years I have participated to FOSDEM, a conference about free and open source software for developers. I love this event. It’s a welcome opportunity to see friends, watch great talks and drink excellent Belgium beer. This year unfortunately it was a remote event. The event was all managed via matrix, a […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/my-fosdem-2021
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  Getting started with Flutter on Ubuntu
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  This is a guest post authored by Daniel Llewellyn. It originally featured on his blog, we’re reproducing it here with Dan’s permission. Dan is an active member of the WordPress, WSL, Ubuntu and Snapcraft communities. Thanks Dan! Recently there was an announcement from Ubuntu that the desktop team are working on a replacement for the […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/getting-started-with-flutter-on-ubuntu
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  Hybrid cloud – everything you need to know
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  Hybrid cloud allows businesses to optimise their costs associated with cloud infrastructure maintenance. It also brings many other benefits, such as business continuity, compliance, better scalability and improved agility. According to the Forrester Wave: Hybrid Cloud Management, Q4 2020, hybrid cloud is an essential technology that every modern organisation is looking for and its adoption […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/hybrid-cloud
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  AI in telecom: an overview for data scientists
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  AI in telecom is more complicated due to regulatory and security requirements. With containers setting up an environment for data scientists is much easier.

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/ai-in-telecom-an-overview-for-data-scientists
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  Portainer recommends MicroK8s for effortless deployment
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  Learn how MicroK8s enables for the fastest and easiest deployment of container management tool Portainer.

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/portainer-recommends-microk8s
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  What is Elasticsearch and how are enterprises using it?
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  What does Netflix, eBay and Walmart have in common? They all use Elasticsearch. What is Elasticsearch? Elasticsearch is a real-time open-source distributed search and analytics engine built on top of Apache Lucene™, a fulltext search-engine library and developed in Java. Elasticsearch started as a scalable version of the Lucene open-source search framework that uses a […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/what-is-elasticsearch-and-how-are-enterprises-using-it
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  What is Elasticsearch and how are enterprises using it?
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  What does Netflix, eBay and Walmart have in common? They all use Elasticsearch. What is Elasticsearch? Elasticsearch is a real-time open-source distributed search and analytics engine built on top of Apache Lucene™, a fulltext search-engine library and developed in Java. Elasticsearch started as a scalable version of the Lucene open-source search framework that uses a […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/what-is-elasticsearch
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  Ubuntu Core 20 secures Linux for IoT
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  2nd February 2021: Canonical’s Ubuntu Core 20, a minimal, containerised version of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS for IoT devices and embedded systems, is now generally available. This major version bolsters device security with secure boot, full disk encryption, and secure device recovery. Ubuntu Core builds on the Ubuntu application ecosystem to create ultra-secure smart things. “Every […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/ubuntu-core-20-secures-linux-for-iot
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  Private home directories for Ubuntu 21.04
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  Ubuntu has evolved a lot since its early beginnings as an easier-to-use derivative of Debian that catered primarily to the nascent Linux desktop market. Today Ubuntu is deployed beyond just your laptops at home and in the office.  Nowadays you are more likely to find Ubuntu in the cloud, powering some of the world’s best […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/private-home-directories-for-ubuntu-21-04
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  Want to publish a snap? Here’s a list of dos and don’ts
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  Technology is a medium that enables us to achieve things in life, ideally in a pleasant way. In the software world, operating systems, programming languages and application frameworks are the tools of the trade. But you need the right tool for the right job. If you’re thinking about writing or porting your code to snaps, […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/want-to-publish-a-snap-heres-a-list-of-dos-and-donts