Tag: ubuntu
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Leaving Canonical
Almost exactly two years ago I started my first job after graduating from University. I turned 22 and became a Product Manager in the space of 2 months. Two facts that I have kept under wraps as much as possible. I started as the Product Manager for robotics. The number of Products or initiatives I…
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UbuntuOnAir update
It’s been a couple of months since we restarted UbuntuOnAir. We had a few ideas, and lots of aspirations, but we wanted to be realistic and work our way up. You can read about why we brought it back and why we didn’t use the more mainstream channel “Celebrate Ubuntu” elsewhere. Here I talk about…
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Ubuntu Documentation Issues
Over the lifetime of the Ubuntu project documentation has been written by thousands of people. From technical specifications, to meeting minutes, to translations in dozens of languages. But with such extensive contribution it has become fragmented, disjointed, and confusing to parse, even for the most diligent community members. I’m here to give the state of…
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UbuntuOnAir
We (the Ubuntu Community team) are delighted to invite you to the UbuntuOnAir YouTube and Twitch channels! Woo. These particular air waves will hold community focused Indabas, office hours, highly requested community interviews and will deliver Ubuntu/Open Source related workshops, host special events and, hopefully, yes, play games. You can go over there right now…
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What is virtualisation? The basics
Virtualisation plays a huge role in almost all of today’s fastest-growing software-based industries. It is the foundation for most cloud computing, the go-to methodology for cross-platform development, and has made its way all the way to ‘the edge’; the eponymous IoT. This article is the first in a series where we explain what virtualisation is…
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Learning Linux
Five years ago I barely knew what Linux was. I knew it was a thing and I think I knew it was an operating system, but that was about it. Two years ago I used Linux knowingly for the first time during a University course for OpenFOAM. A little over a year and a half…
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Why upgrade from Windows 7
Windows 7 reaches end of life (EOL) tomorrow, January 14th, 2020. If you continue using Windows 7 after that you are inviting hackers to take your data. EOL means that Windows 7 will stop receiving any security updates, and dedicated tech support will stop. Anything still running Windows 7 tomorrow, could potentially become a security…
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How I made my first snap
Snaps are a way for you to package your software so it is easy to install on Linux. I figured, as a new member of the advocacy team at Canonical, I better start snappin’. I learnt how to do this using the snapcraft documentation, and a couple of blog posts by Alan Pope (popey). If…
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