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The new XPS 13 Developer Edition lands in Europe and United States

This is a guest post by Barton George from Dell. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com Today the 6th generation XPS 13 developer edition makes its debut in both the US and Europe (Canada to follow). This Kaby Lake-based system comes with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS preloaded and features the

Snap interview with Krita

This is the second in a series of interviews with Snap adopters, you can read the first interview here. If you have an interesting snap story to tell, please contact me. I’ve always been a big fan of Krita, so when I started working on snap packaging it was high on my list to do. In doing

Juju GUI 2.2.0 released

We’re pleased to announce the latest feature release of the Juju GUI. With the GA of Juju 2 release coming very soon we’re ready to unveil the new enhanced model management in the Juju GUI. The new GUI allows you to take advantage of Juju 2’s multi-user multi-model functionality as seamlessly as you worked with

Big software has arrived

It’s time for IT to let software do more of the work The world of business technology is under tremendous pressure and most organizations are ill-equipped to deal with the challenges and opportunities that are arising. Software as a Service, big data, cloud, scale-out, containers and microservices are not just buzz-words they are disrupti

September’s reading list

Here are the best links shared by the design team during the month of September: Empty States It’s ok to say what’s ok Sully – 208 Seconds Experience Google Allo Tech Giants Team Up to Fix Typography’s Biggest Problem Redesigning Chrome desktop Clarity Conference videos Thank you to Alejandra, Jamie, Joe and me for the

Cloud Chatter: September 2016

Welcome to our September edition. This month, We begin with Canonical introducing enterprise support for its own distribution of Kubernetes across public clouds and private infrastructure. Next up we give you a preview of what you can expect from us in Barcelona at the OpenStack Summit. We have details of our expanding partnership with IB

Meet ORWL. The first open source, physically secure computer

This is a guest post by Daniel Nelson from Design Shift, makers of ORWL. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com If someone has physical access to your computer with secure documents present, it’s game over! ORWL is designed to solve this as the first open source physically secure computer

The making of the Nextcloud Box

This is a guest post by Jos Poortvliet, Marketing and Communications Manager from Nexcloud. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com The story of the Nextcloud box – a feature in our upcoming webinar – learn more here. In 2010, Frank Karlitschek founded the ownCloud project to provide an al


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I took a circular saw to the Nextcloud box and you won’t believe…

…what happened next! Ok, ok.. sorry for the click-bait headline – but It is mainly true. I recently got a Nextcloud box , it was pretty easy to set up and here are some great instructions. But this box is not just a Nextcloud box, it is a box of unlimited possibilities. In just a

Releasing the 4.1.0 Ubuntu SDK IDE

The testing phase took longer than we have expected but finally we are ready. To compensate this delay we have even upgraded the IDE to the most recent 4.1.0 QtCreator. Based on QtCreator 4.1.0 We have based the new IDE on the most recent QtCreator upstream release, which brings a lot of new features and

Learning to snap with codelabs

I always felt that learning something new, especially new concepts and workflows usually works best if you see it first-hand and get to do things yourself. If you experience directly how your actions influence the system you’re working with, the new connections in your brain form much more quickly. Didier and I talked a while

Canonical expands enterprise container portfolio

Canonical Expands Enterprise Container Portfolio with Commercially Supported Distribution of Kubernetes Canonical’s distribution of Kubernetes is supported, enterprise Kubernetes Support is available on public clouds, private infrastructure, bare metal Elastic solution with built in analytics for scale-out ‘process container’ loads LONDON

First setup of my Nextcloud Box

Article cited below by Hagen Cocoate and source here Last Saturday at Nextcloud conference in Berlin the Nextcloud Box was announced. Frank said it’s a part of his promise/desire to make the world a better place by bringing your data home. How can the world be a better place with Nextcloud Box? What is Nextcloud

Snap interview with Rocket.Chat

Snap packaging has been gaining a lot of momentum recently, from desktop apps to cloud services, and everything in between. To learn more about the people and projects that are building snaps Michael Hall, Ubuntu Community Manager, reached out to Aaron Ogle a Core Contributor to the Open Source Project Rocket.Chat. How did you find out ab

Canonical joins Linaro and co-founds LITE project

Canonical joins Linaro as one of the founding members of the LITE project, fostering collaboration and interoperability in the  IoT and embedded space. “Linaro the collaborative engineering organization developing open source software for the ARM® architecture, today announced the launch of the Linaro IoT and Embedded (LITE) Segment Group

Rocket.chat, a new snap is landing on your Nextcloud Box and beyond

Last week Nextcloud, Western Digital and Canonical launched the Nextcloud box, a simple box powered by a Raspberry Pi to easily build a private cloud storage service at home . With the Nextcloud box, you are already securely sharing files with your colleagues, friends, and/or family. The team at Rocket.chat has been asking “Why not


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