Guake Terminal: A Customizable Linux Terminal for Power Users [Inspired by an FPS Game]
Brief: Quickly access your terminal that is customizable and powerful for a variety of users with…
Design and Web team summary – 01 March 2021
The web team at Canonical run two-week iterations building and maintaining all of Canonical websites and…
Meet SysMonTask: A Windows Task Manager Lookalike for Linux
Thanks to the desktop environments, almost all Linux distributions come with a task manager application. In…
What is GNU/Linux Copypasta?
As a Linux user, you might have come across a long text that starts with “I’d…
What is virtualisation? The basics
Virtualisation plays a huge role in almost all of today’s fastest-growing software-based industries. It is the…
How to Install the Latest Erlang on Ubuntu Linux
Erlang is a functional programming language for building massive scalable real-time systems. Originally created by Ericsson…
Creating Graphical Shells – Try Mir in a Virtual Machine
What is Mir? Mir is a set of libraries for creating graphical shells for Linux on…
What is MEC ? The telco edge.
MEC, as ETSI defines it, stands for Multi-access Edge Computing and is sometimes referred to as…
DFI and Canonical offer risk-free system updates and reduced software lead times for the IoT ecosystem
Feb. 25, 2021 – DFI and Canonical signed the Ubuntu IoT Hardware Certification Partner Program. DFI…
Nvidia Linux drivers causing random hard crashes and now a major security risk still not fixed after 5+ months
Image The recent fiasco with Nvidia trying to block Hardware Unboxed from future GPU review samples…
Check Your Disk Usage Using ‘duf’ Terminal Tool [Friendly Alternative to du and df commands]
Brief: duf is a terminal tool meant as an enhancement to the traditional “df” and “du”…
Building and running FIPS containers on Ubuntu Pro FIPS
Background Canonical provides customers Ubuntu Pro images AWS Marketplace. Ubuntu Pro for AWS is a premium…
Build smart displays with mir 2.3.2
mir was designed to help systems on chips (SoCs) to reduce their development and maintenance investment…
ESPlot: Open Source Software for Plotting Real-Time, High-Speed Signals For Embedded Systems
Confronted with the need of plotting high-speed (or high number of data) signals, typically for embedded…
Not Comfortable Using youtube-dl in Terminal? Use These GUI Apps
If you’ve been following us, you probably already know that youtube-dl project was taken down temporarily…
The State of Robotics – January 2021
A new start? 2020 came and went, and in the process, it left a mark in…
Canonical & Ubuntu at Embedded World Virtual 2021
Embedded World 2021 is just around the corner and we’re excited to be sponsoring and connecting…
Starship: Open-Source Customizable Prompt for Any Shell
Brief: A cross-shell prompt that makes it easy to customize and configure the Linux terminal prompt,…
Regex basics
This is a direct repost of the original article on my blog. In my team we…
7 Ways to Customize Cinnamon Desktop in Linux [Beginner’s Guide]
Linux Mint is one the best Linux distributions for beginners. Especially Windows users that want to…
Improving the code experience in Vanilla
For a long time, code in Vanilla was simply set in a monospace font, and we…