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Oliver Smith
8 July 2022

Firefox snap performance Part 3: significant startup improvements

Desktop Article

In Part 3 of our Firefox snap performance series we cover two significant performance improvements that have just landed for all users. ...


gbeuzeboc
8 July 2022

Install Gazebo for ROS 2 in under a minute

Robotics Article

Recently, we announced the beta release of the Gazebo snap to help you install Gazebo for ROS 2. The gazebo snap is easy to install on dozens of Linux distributions and comes bundled with all the dependencies and the ROS 2 integration. It currently supports Gazebo Citadel and thus ROS 2 Foxy. For the sake ...


Oliver Smith
7 July 2022

Bring home the disco with these Raspberry Pi HAT tutorials (Part 1)

Internet of Things Article

Ubuntu is lighting up the Raspberry Pi this week with the first of a two-part collection of Unicorn HAT tutorials from our resident Pi developers! ...


Igor Ljubuncic
5 July 2022

Behind open DORS – Conference organizers share their thoughts on Canonical, Ubuntu, snaps, and open-source

Ubuntu Article

A Linux conference almost as old as Linux itself. In mid-May, DORS/CLUC hosted its 29th event at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing in Zagreb, Croatia. With a long history of participation and contribution to open source communities, Canonical was one of the sponsors at the conference, with a busy schedule that included a ...


Gabriel Aguiar Noury
4 July 2022

The State of Robotics – May & June 2022

Robotics Article

In May, robotics felt the waves of the Hawksbill and Jellyfish. Last month brought us the first LTS for ROS 2, Humble Hawksbill. As part of the ROS community, we welcome this new release and congratulate everyone who made it possible. In this round-up, we will talk about ROS, drones, football and robots that eat ...


Anthony Dillon
1 July 2022

Design and Web team summary – 17 June 2022

Design Design

The Web and design team at Canonical run two-week iterations building and maintaining all of the Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Web The Web team develops and maintains most of Canonical’s sites like ubuntu.com, canonical.com and more.  Major update ...


Holly Hall
30 June 2022

Star Developers are here!

Ubuntu Article

We are happy to announce that the newest community feature of the Snap Store is here: Star Developers! Background  In the Snap Store, we have a fantastic community where members can discuss topics in the forum, develop snaps and help others. Currently, the Snap Store has verified accounts; verified companies have a green tick by ...


Massimiliano Gori
30 June 2022

New Active Directory Integration features in Ubuntu 22.04 (part 4) – Scripts execution

Desktop Article

Linux Active Directory (AD) integration is historically one of the most requested functionalities by our corporate users, and with Ubuntu Desktop 22.04, we introduced ADsys, our new Active Directory client. This blog post is the last of a series where we will explore the new functionalities in more detail. In this article we will focus ...


Michael C. Jaeger
30 June 2022

The software operator design pattern: disadvantages – part 5

Charms Article

The software operator is a design pattern – it is a proven design that has been applied in many situations and implemented by several frameworks. Its widespread adoption in the industry has allowed us to study its consequences, both good and bad. This is important because software developers and IT architects need to know when ...


Michael C. Jaeger
29 June 2022

The software operator design pattern: advantages – part 4

Cloud and server Article

The software operator is a design pattern. Its design is based on successful applications where this approach was found useful. In other words, it’s a proven approach that can be recommended to others. But like all approaches, it’s important to understand their positive and negative impact. Software developers need to understand when the ...


Nathan Hart
29 June 2022

Multipass documentation: proudly a work in progress

Ubuntu Article

In February of this year the Multipass team took on a challenge: completely overhauling our documentation. Canonical has put a renewed emphasis on documentation in recent months, led by Daniele Procida and his Diataxis framework, and we wanted to be an early adopter of this methodology. We had no idea where to start, but fortunately ...