2022

See for yourself: the benefits of chiselled Ubuntu images in action with an ASP.NET shop demo

Looking for a way to improve the performance and reliability of your online shopping and payment systems during the holiday season? Look no further than chiselled Ubuntu images! In this blog series, I’ve already discussed the benefits of using these lightweight and efficient images for your containerised applications. In this second part, I’ll show you …

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Chiselled Ubuntu: the perfect present for your containerised and cloud applications

As we enter the holiday season, online shopping and payment systems are gearing up for higher traffic and workloads. Ensuring that these applications can handle the increased demand without slowing down or crashing is critical for providing a smooth and efficient experience for customers. One way to improve the performance and reliability of these applications …

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Snapcrafters: 2022 wrap-up

This article was written by Merlijn Sebrechts and Dani Llewellyn from the Snapcrafters community. ===== Last year, we officially re-launched the “Snapcrafters” initiative. We’re a community of volunteers who build and maintain unofficial snap packages. Although snaps make it easy for developers to publish their software directly to users, some of them don’t (yet) do …

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New Ubuntu Technical Board

We have completed the election for the Ubuntu Technical Board, and have a result: https://civs1.civs.us/cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_839774c82b466b28 The following people are elected to the Ubuntu Technical Board: 1. Steve Langasek 2. Łukasz Zemczak 3. Alex Murray 4. Robie Basak 5. Sebastien Bacher They have been elected for a period of two years. A big thank you to …

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Launch your own micro cloud with one command

If you are looking for a small-scale cloud deployment suitable for the edge, chances are you came across Canonical’s Micro cloud solution. These are small-footprint clusters of compute nodes with distributed storage and secure networking, optimised for repeatable and reliable remote deployments. We are happy to announce that with the help of snaps and some …

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10 Best Web Browsers for Ubuntu in 2023

Web Browsers is one of the most widely used application by the millions of users worldwide. There are many reasons behind internet browser such as hassle-free access to wide range of information under one single window, social networking, and online streaming sites with video content in various categories. Ubuntu comes pre-loaded with Mozilla Firefox web …

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Repatriation to reduce public cloud spend – easier said than done?

Repatriation in cloud computing refers to moving workloads from the public cloud to on-premise infrastructure. Sarah Wang and Martin Casado from Andreessen Horowitz have written one of the most popular articles about repatriation: they explain the motivation with the significant cost savings possible. For software-based businesses, public cloud spend can rise to 50% of the …

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