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Software-defined: an industry U-turn Vehicles are becoming more connected, autonomous, shared and electric (the famous CASE acronym). While customers expect new features and upgradability, the software and hardware components enabling such innovations require a different system architecture to function. This is a major change for the automotive industry as it requires new software skills, methodologies …

Unravelling complexity in a software-defined vehicles industry Read More »

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 …

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

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 …

The State of Robotics – May & June 2022 Read More »

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 to the …

Design and Web team summary – 17 June 2022 Read More »

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 …

Star Developers are here! Read More »

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. (Part 1  – Introduction, Part 2 …

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

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 …

The software operator design pattern: disadvantages – part 5 Read More »