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Data centre automation for HPC
By Eduardo Aguilar Pelaez, 29 June 2020
Friction points in HPC DevOps Many High Performance Computing (HPC) setups are still handcrafted configurations where tuning changes can take days or weeks....
You are invited to the virtual Ubuntu Masters event
By Canonical, 16 April 2020
The Ubuntu Masters Conference is a platform for IT practitioners to share how they are solving industry-wide challenges with the global engineering community....
Ubuntu Security Update on VENOM (CVE-2015-3456) [UPDATED]
By Robbie, 13 May 2015
A buffer overflow in the virtual floppy disk controller of QEMU has been discovered. An attacker could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash or execute...
An insight into supporting OpenStack
By Mark Baker, 27 March 2014
It is pretty well known that most of the OpenStack clouds running in production today are based on Ubuntu. Companies like Comcast, NTT, Deutsche Telekom,...
ARM Server Explained
By Victor Tuson Palau, 21 August 2012
You have probably started to notice a continuous buzz around ARM Servers for the last few months: Calxeda (an System on a Chip maker) presented their...
Ubuntu ARM Server AMI on Amazon EC2
By Victor Tuson Palau, 25 May 2012
Have you been wondering if your Web application will work with the new generation of Hyperdense ARM Servers? Now you can easily find out by using Ubuntu and...
A UDS restrospective
By Jane Silber, 18 May 2012
The Ubuntu Developer Summit last week was an incredible event. The energy, excitement and passion around Ubuntu was palpable in the sessions, hallways and...
Improving Hardware Support in Ubuntu
By Victor Tuson Palau, 7 March 2012
Anthony Wong, Project Technical Lead at Canonical, presented our process for improving hardware support in Ubuntu at our 2011 Hardware Summit. He did such a...
Ubuntu IVI Remix Next Release
By Canonical, 21 December 2011
The latest Ubuntu In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) Remix is released as of December 2011. This release contains a number of updates and bugfixes from the...
White Paper: Secure Boot impact on Linux
By Victor Tuson Palau, 28 October 2011
Last month Steven Sinofsky from Microsoft announced new requirements for manufacturers wanting to ship Windows 8 systems, including a feature called “Secure...
Matt Zimmerman leaving Canonical
By Canonical, 6 May 2011
I joined Canonical in June of 2004 as a member of the founding team, before we even had a name for the company. In June 2011, after just over seven years as...