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  Edge-native Linux
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  Tech innovators use Linux to create intelligent devices for homes, factories, buildings, cities or vehicles etc… These things are deployed at the edge, in privacy sensitive or business critical environments. They require ever more compute to run ever smarter applications. A Linux distribution engineered for embedded devices running highly intelligent applications at edge scale is […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/edge-native-linux
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  The State of Robotics – October 2020
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  This post marks the one year anniversary of the Ubuntu Robotics newsletter: the place we showcase our work and discussing cool robotics happenings.

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/the-state-of-robotics-august-2020-2
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  The State of Robotics – October 2020
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  This post marks the one year anniversary of the Ubuntu Robotics newsletter: the place we showcase our work and discussing cool robotics happenings.

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/the-state-of-robotics-october-2020-2
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  The Hunt for Rogue Time – How we investigated and solved the Chromium snap slow startup problem
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  In October, we shared a blog post detailing significant snap startup time improvements due to the use of a new compression algorithm. In that article, we focused on the cold and hot application startups, but we did not delve much into the first-run setup scenario. While running our tests, we observed a rather interesting phenomenon, […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/the-hunt-for-rogue-time-how-we-investigated-and-solved-the-chromium-snap-slow-startup-problem
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  Ubuntu at ROS World 2020: Learn how to do more for your robot
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  Come and connect with the Ubuntu robotics team on November 12th to answer all of your questions. This is the first time ROSCon has ever been virtual and is the first time it’s ever been free to attend, so we’re looking forward to seeing tons of new faces! We have ROS experts and field engineers ready and waiting to talk.

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/ubuntu-at-ros-world-2020-learn-how-to-do-more-for-your-robot
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  MTS selects OpenStack and Canonical for next-generation cloud infrastructure
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  5th November, 2020: MOSCOW, Russia – MTS (NYSE:MBT; MOEX:MTSS), Russia’s largest mobile operator and a leading provider of media and digital services, announces the selection of Canonical’s Charmed OpenStack to power the company’s next-generation cloud infrastructure. MTS plans to leverage Charmed OpenStack’s advanced lifecycle management capabilities and flexible cloud-native architecture to better enable multi-vendor and […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/mts-selects-openstack-and-canonical-for-next-generation-cloud-infrastructure
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  Open Infrastructure Summit 2020: Highlights from Canonical’s first digital OIS
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  Another Open Infrastructure Summit just passed, and yet this one was like no other OIS past. Head-sponsoring the first ever virtual OIS was an interesting experience to say the least, with more than 10,000 community members worldwide hoping on the hand-built OIS platform to see what’s new in the open infrastructure space, connect, and – why not? – get their hands on some goodies from their favourite brands!

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/open-infrastructure-summit-2020-highlights-from-canonicals-first-digital-ois
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  Deploying Kubeflow everywhere: desktop, edge, and IoT devices
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  Kubeflow, the ML toolkit on K8s, now fits on your desktop and edge devices! 🚀 Data science workflows on Kubernetes Kubeflow provides the cloud-native interface between Kubernetes and data science tools: libraries, frameworks, pipelines, and notebooks. > Read more about what is Kubeflow Cloud-native MLOps toolkit gets heavy To make Kubeflow the standard cloud-native tool […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/deploying-kubeflow-everywhere
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  Ubuntu Groovy Gorilla on Raspberry Pi
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  On the 22nd of October, the 20.10 release was launched, an Ubuntu Desktop image optimised for the Raspberry Pi.  It brings together Ubuntu and Raspberry Pi for educators, inventors and entrepreneurs, bringing the world’s most open platform to the world’s most accessible hardware.  Getting started on Raspberry Pi using Ubuntu  Desktop Learn more about the […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/ubuntu-groovy-gorilla-on-raspberry-pi
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  OpenStack Charms 20.10 – Victoria, OVN, CNTT and more
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  Canonical is proud to announce the availability of OpenStack Charms 20.10. This new release introduces a range of exciting features and several improvements which enhance Charmed OpenStack. OpenStack Victoria OpenStack Charms 20.10 brings OpenStack Victoria on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (via Cloud Archive) and Ubuntu 20.10 with full support from Canonical until April 2020. Victoria is […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/openstack-charms-20-10
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  Accessibility audit of Vanilla framework
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  The team behind the Vanilla Framework has a background in development, UX and Visual Design. We all care about accessibility, but none of us is an accessibility expert. We were interested in evaluating how well the framework complies with accessibility standards. We decided to start with an internal audit, fix any issues we find, then […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/accessibility-audit-of-vanilla-framework
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  How Kubernetes is transforming the industrial edge
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  According to leading independent researchers teknowlogy | PAC, open source platforms – and Kubernetes in particular – are central to the future of digital factories.  The PAC RADAR report offers a detailed market analysis of industrial digitalisation trends, and it predicts that Kubernetes-based platforms that bring together edge and cloud technologies will soon dominate the […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/how-kubernetes-is-transforming-the-industrial-edge
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  Exploring ROS 2 with Kubernetes
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  Construct a prototype ROS 2 system distributed across multiple computers using Kubernetes. Our goal is not only to provide you with a working configuration, but also to help you understand why it succeeds and overcome future design challenges.

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/exploring-ros-2-with-kubernetes
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  Raspberry Pi 400 with Ubuntu support
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  The Raspberry Pi Foundation has a new product — the Raspberry Pi 400. The flagship Raspberry Pi 4 was released in June 2019. Since, they added an 8GB model, brought out the Compute Module 4, we certified all Raspberry Pis since Raspberry Pi 2 and we worked together to make the full Ubuntu Desktop ‘just […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/raspberry-pi-400-with-ubuntu-support
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  Introducing etrace – a multi-purpose application profiling tool
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  These days, the internal workings of Linux applications involve many different moving parts. Sometimes, it can be rather difficult to debug them when things go wrong or run slower than expected. Tracing an application’s execution is one way of understanding potential issues without diving into the source code. To this end, we wrote an app-tracing […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/introducing-etrace-a-multi-purpose-application-profiling-tool
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  New installation options coming for Ubuntu on WSL
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  The experience of installing Ubuntu on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) just keeps getting better. Beginning in Windows 10 Insiders Preview build 20246, released today by Microsoft, users can enable a complete WSL experience with simply: This will enable WSL 2, install the latest WSL 2 Linux kernel, and install the most recent Ubuntu LTS […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/new-installation-options-coming-for-ubuntu-wsl
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  Kubeflow operators: lifecycle management for the ML stack
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  Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, releases Charmed Kubeflow, a set of charm operators to deliver the 20+ applications that make up the latest version of Kubeflow, for easy consumption anywhere, from workstations to on-prem, public cloud, and edge. > Visit Charmed-kubeflow.io to learn more. Kubeflow, the ML toolkit on K8s Kubeflow provides the cloud-native interface […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/kubeflow-operators-lifecycle-management-for-data-science
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  Design and Web team summary – 28th October 2020
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  The web team here at Canonical run two-week iterations. This iteration was slightly different as we began a new cycle. A cycle represents six months of work. Therefore, we spent the first-week planning and scheduling the cycles goals. Therefore, the following highlights of our completed work from the previous week. Meet the team Photo credit: […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/design-and-web-team-summary-28th-october-2020
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  Snap speed improvements with new compression algorithm!
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  Security and performance are often mutually exclusive concepts. A great user experience is one that manages to blend the two in a way that does not compromise on robust, solid foundations of security on one hand, and a fast, responsive software interaction on the other. Snaps are self-contained applications, with layered security, and as a […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/snap-speed-improvements-with-new-compression-algorithm
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  Build a Raspberry Pi Desktop with an Ubuntu heart
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  On the 22nd October 2020, Canonical released an Ubuntu Desktop image optimised for the Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi Foundation’s 4GB and 8GB boards work out of the box with everything users expect from an Ubuntu Desktop. It is our honour to contribute an optimised Ubuntu Desktop image to the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s mission to […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/build-a-raspberry-pi-desktop-with-an-ubuntu-heart