I spoke with Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical and Ubuntu's founder, and Dustin Kirkland, Canonical's product manager, at the conference, and here's really what's going on with LXD. First, on the technical ...

Containers remain one of the hottest trends in technology thanks to the new ways they’re allowing developers to write new applications. Canonical – the developer of the Linux-based Ubuntu operating ...

IT organizations are going to have to get used to the idea that there are multiple types of containers that are optimized for different use cases. For example, there are containers such as Docker that ...

Canonical's new Linux distribution unveils its LXD container runtime, which offers the best features of both containers and VMs Later this week Canonical will debut a new rev of Ubuntu that features ...

Canonical today announced that the next version of Ubuntu, 15.04 Vivid Vervet, will be available for download on Thursday. This release introduces a couple of new features for desktop users, but most ...

Nearly a year after its introduction, LXD is finally coming of age. Canonical Ltd. will include the homegrown virtualization engine in the new version of its popular Linux flavor that is launching ...

With this release, Canonical is adding a new snappy Ubuntu Core. This light-weight Linux is designed for transactional systems, such as cloud container hosts, and smart devices for the Internet of ...

Docker is making waves again. Just this week, Google Inc. launched its cloud-based Docker-as-a-service called “Container Engine”, which is now available on its Google Compute Engine platform. And now, ...