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Lyubomir Popov
15 March 2019

Vertical rhythm and spacing in Vanilla Framework 2.0

Cloud and server Article

Overview of the typographic improvements to our CSS framework introduced over the past 12 months. ...


alfonsosanchezbeato
15 March 2019

Porting Ubuntu Core 18 on Nvidia Jetson TX1 Developer Kit

Internet of Things Tutorials

Ubuntu Core (UC) is Canonical’s take in the IoT space. There are pre-built images for officially supported devices, like Raspberry Pi or Intel NUCs, but for other boards, when there is no community port, one needs to create one on their own. This is the the case if one wants to run Ubuntu Core 18 ...


Igor Ljubuncic
14 March 2019

Make your snap development faster

Desktop Article

“All my centurions develop using snaps.” Julius Caesar By and large, software development can be an enjoyable process. Until you hit the first error, that is. At that point, you want to get past the stumbling blocks as quickly as possible and resume building your apps. A robust, flexible development framework can make a big ...


Kyle Fazzari
11 March 2019

ROS 2 launch: required nodes

Cloud and server Article

When using the Robot Operating System (ROS), it’s fairly common to want to shut down a launched system if a specific node (or set of nodes) exits. This is pretty easy in ROS1, because launch files support the required attribute on each node. As a result, crafting a two-node system where one of the nodes ...


Maximilian Ehlers
11 March 2019

FOSDEM 2019, a recap

Desktop Article

A subjective review and some takeaways of our teams trip to FOSDEM 2019. ...


Martin Wimpress
9 March 2019

Fresh KDE snaps for February 2019

Desktop Article

During February 2019 we celebrated another fine Plasma release with our friends at KDE by showcasing a month of KDE snaps on the Snapcraft Twitter and other social accounts. The KDE developers have done amazing work to create an SDK that simplifies making snaps of KDE applications and they also publish a common KDE framework ...


Canonical
7 March 2019

Canonical at NVIDIA GTC 2019

Cloud and server Article

Canonical will be attending Nvidia’s GTC Conference in San Jose, California March 18 – 21, 2019. ...


Canonical
7 March 2019

How to ensure the ongoing security and compliance of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS ‘Trusty Tahr’

Cloud and server Article

As 14.04 reaches the end of its five-year, Standard Security Maintenance, LTS window in April 2019, support for the OS is transitioning into a new phase – Extended Security Maintenance (ESM). ...


Igor Ljubuncic
7 March 2019

How to create snapshots of your snaps

Desktop Article

Data backups are arguably the most important part of one’s software setup. While many scenarios fall into the realm of if, data loss belongs in the when domain. Over time, every one of us will experience some kind of hardware failure, be it an optical disk, a hard disk or a lost phone. It is ...


Canonical
6 March 2019

Infographic: Snapcraft for developers

Cloud and server Article

At the end of last year, we shared an infographic highlighting the adoption of snaps by users for their desktop, server or IoT devices. Those snaps wouldn’t be available without the growing number of developers building them behind the scenes. But why have developers, including those from some of the world’s largest software companies, de ...


Canonical
4 March 2019

How to quickly deploy production-ready Kubernetes

Cloud and server Article

Kubernetes, the flexible software that coordinates containers, runs on a range of platforms, from public to private cloud, data centers, bare metal and virtualised infrastructure, and requires a number of considerations for design and performance optimisation. Beyond identifying individual requirements, such as use cases and topology, org ...