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Robin Winslow
28 August 2014

Saving ubuntu.com on download day: Caching location specific pages

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On release day we can get up to 8,000 requests a second to ubuntu.com from people trying to download the new release. In fact, last October (13.10) was the first release day in a long time that the site didn’t crash under the load at some point during the day (huge credit to the infrastructure ...

Canonical
8 August 2014

Ubuntu 14.10 wallpapers – we needs ‘em!

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Ubuntu was once described to me by a wise(ish 😉 ) man as a train that was leaving whether you’re on it or not. That’s the beauty of a 6 month release cycle. As many of you will already know, each release we include photos and illustrations produced by community members. We ask that you submit your ...

Mark Baker
22 July 2014

Enterprise standards = prisoners of the mind?

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Over the last few weeks we’ve found ourselves in several prospective customer meetings discussing the suitability of OpenStack for enterprise use in production clouds. Enterprises are skeptical of OpenStack’s ability to deliver a solid platform that is able to meet the availability, security and manageability demands of the business. Ther ...

Canonical
7 July 2014

Ubuntu and open source help the City of Munich save millions

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

Challenge Munich is the third-largest city in Germany, with approximately 1.5 million inhabitants. The local governing body employs more than 33,000 people – 16,000 of whom use PCs as part of their daily roles. Those computers are located at different sites and their users have widely differing needs. In 2001, there were 22 organisational ...

John Zannos
1 July 2014

HP Publishes OpenStack on Ubuntu Reference Architecture

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Just in time for the recent HP Discover event, engineers from HP and Canonical published a technical white paper titled: HP Reference Architecture for OpenStack on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. This white paper provides the information HP clients need to start planning cloud deployments using OpenStack on Ubuntu with HP servers. For clients who are b ...

Canonical
14 May 2014

NUDT and Canonical bring OpenStack to world’s fastest supercomputer

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

China’s National University of Defense Technology, NUDT, developers of the Tianhe-2 supercomputer, and Canonical, the organisation behind Ubuntu, today announce a collaboration to bring OpenStack to the world’s fastest supercomputer for high performance cloud environments. The new collaboration with Canonical will enable Ubuntu Server, Ub ...

Mark Baker
13 May 2014

Fast with an extra helping of faster

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Today AMD announced a set of industry benchmark performance records for hyperscale OpenStack running on Ubuntu OpenStack (Icehouse) and AMD’s SeaMicro SM15000™ system. The benchmarking, which is the largest known demonstration of OpenStack scalability ever, highlights how OpenStack can quickly and reliably provision on-demand computing. A ...

Mark Shuttleworth
31 March 2014

#10 Ubuntu is built on IAAS for IAAS users

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Ubuntu is famous for “making things easy”. That’s just as important on the cloud as it is in consumer devices, and we bring the same user-centric design to command-line driven core OS environments on the cloud that drives our desktop, tablet and phone development. The result is a lightweight, clean and fast platform for developers and dev ...

Mark Shuttleworth
8 March 2014

The very best edge of all

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The bottom edge is the most natural one to use, and Ubuntu has given it to developers to make the most of. Some design guidance establishes a framework for evaluating your creativity, but it leaves a very wide degree of creative freedom and we’re already seeing a load of superb interactions coming to the fore in core and community apps. H ...

Canonical
6 March 2014

Thanks for all your submissions!

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The submissions process for Ubuntu 14.04 is now closed. If you’d like to look at the images head over to the Flickr Group. From here on a group of dedicated and splendid individuals will get together to select the images that are going to go into the next release of Ubuntu. We’ll be hanging out on #1404wallpaper on Freenode and you can c ...

Canonical
10 September 2013

Wednesday App Design Clinic

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Since Ubuntu touch was announced, its been fantastic to see the variety of apps you’ve been developing, from shopping lists to word games, to apps that aid your daily commute. As the Ubuntu Touch platform gets bigger and better, myself and the design team have been receiving more requests for feedback on designs, as well ...

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