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Blog posts tagged
"Ubuntu"


Andreea Munteanu
4 November 2020

Ubuntu Groovy Gorilla on Raspberry Pi

People and culture Article

On the 22nd of October, the 20.10 release was launched, featuring 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 used open-source desktop to the world’s most accessible hardware. Getting started on Raspberry Pi using ...


Rhys Davies
2 November 2020

Raspberry Pi 400 with Ubuntu support

Desktop Article

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 ...


Rhys Davies
22 October 2020

Build a Raspberry Pi Desktop with an Ubuntu heart

Desktop Article

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 ...


sidfaber
3 September 2020

Tutorial: Getting Started with ROS

Robotics Article

ROS, the Robot Operating System, is the platform of choice for robot development. However, the breadth and depth of existing documentation can be daunting for the ROS beginner. Where should you start learning about ROS 2 on Ubuntu? All robots based on ROS and ROS 2 are programmed using five simple but core constructs: Nodes ...


Canonical
6 August 2020

Infographic: Ubuntu from 2004 to 20.04 LTS

Canonical announcements Article

Today, the first point release of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS went live! To celebrate, we wanted to share how Ubuntu has evolved since the first release in 2004 to where we are today with 20.04. Thanks to those in the community and our users for your contributions and joining us on this journey. Upgrade to Ubuntu ...


anastasiavalti
28 July 2020

Canonical at KubeCon Europe Virtual 2020

Kubernetes Events

Book a meeting Date: August 17-20Location: Everywhere – this year’s KubeCon is virtual! Booth: Canonical This year has been an adventurous one to say the least… but that should get in the way of the community getting together, exchanging ideas, and keeping up with what’s new in the sphere of Kubernetes. In fact, it’s all ...


sidfaber
13 July 2020

Robotics Recap: Learning, Programming & Snapping ROS 2

Robotics Article

Robotics@Canonical puts a strong focus on the migration from ROS to ROS 2. ROS 2 benefits from many improvements, especially robot security. Our goal is to make it easy for you to transition to ROS 2, whether you’re completely new to ROS or a seasoned engineer retooling for a new environment. Your new platform should ...


sidfaber
29 June 2020

Installing ROS in LXD Containers

Cloud and server Article

It’s the season for updates. The last few weeks have ushered in ROS 1 Noetic and ROS 2 Foxy, both of which target the recently released Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa. As always, new releases come with trepidation: how can I install new software and test compatibility, yet keep my own environment stable until I know ...


Tytus Kurek
16 June 2020

Is Ubuntu an enterprise Linux distribution?

Cloud and server Article

Is Ubuntu an enterprise Linux distribution? If you are asking, you are probably wondering if you can use Ubuntu anywhere else other than your workstation or development environment. Perhaps you are wondering whether you can implement Ubuntu in your enterprise, including production environments? If that is the case, I have good news for yo ...


didrocks
26 May 2020

ZFS focus on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS: what’s new?

Desktop Article

Ubuntu has supported ZFS as an option for some time. In 19.10, we introduced experimental support on the desktop. As explained, having a ZFS on root option on our desktop was only a first step in what we want to achieve by adopting this combined file system and logical volume manager. I strongly suggest you read ...


Joshua Powers
8 May 2020

The New Ubuntu Server Guide

Cloud and server Article

This article originally appeared on Joshua Powers’ blog With the release of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) the Ubuntu Server Guide has received a major set of updates and has moved to a new location on the Ubuntu website. The new location makes it much easier to read and contribute improvements. There is a link ...


Joshua Powers
7 May 2020

QEMU and libvirt enhancements in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Cloud and server Article

This article originally appeared on Joshua Powers’ blog Ubuntu is the industry-leading operating system for cloud hosts and guests. Every day millions of Ubuntu instances are launched in private and public clouds around the world. Many launched right on top of Ubuntu itself. Canonical takes pride in offering the latest virtualization stac ...