The other day Canonical came to Dell for a show and tell. The Sputnik team, normally located in various buildings in Austin and Round Rock, all found ourselves in attendance at the event. Here is a quick meet-the-team video introducing ourselves, saying where we’re from and declaring our favorite TV show.
Additionally, here is a short case study giving the Project Sputnik history.
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This morning at OSCON a special event was held to announce the launch of Kubernetes 1.0 (Google’s open source container management framework) as well as the introduction of the Cloud Native Computing foundation.
One of the key speakers at the event was Craig McLuckie of Google who is a founding member of Kubernetes’ team. Craig has also been working with the Linux Foundation to set up the Cloud Native Computing foundation.
I sat down with Craig for a quick chat regarding both of these efforts.
Some of the ground Craig covers:
Extra-credit reading:
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We are aware of some issues that need to be addressed with our XPS 13 developer edition. While patches have been made available (or coming soon), we are working to add these fixes to the systems at the factory.
Given that we want our customers to have the best experience possible, we have temporarily stopped new sales of the XPS 13 developer edition. Our desire is to bring back the system as soon as possible, but only after we have resolved the outstanding issues at the factory level. [Please realize that this DOES NOT AFFECT the windows version of the XPS 13]
We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your support and patience.
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Back at the end of April I gave an internal presentation laying out a high level overview of the container and container management space. I pulled this together using public info.
Needless to say big things have happened since I created it, most notably the announcement of the Open Container Project. That being said it I feel it still offers a good general feel for the players and how they fit together.
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Once again we want to thank the entire community for your posts containing feedback and questions to the Dell TechCenter forum and this blog regarding the Ubuntu-based XPS 13 and M3800 developer editions.
Last month we posted links to four knowledge base articles addressing: wireless drivers, keyboard repeat, suspend/resume and cursor freezes. Today we are adding three more that have been hot topics recently: creating recovery media, OOBE crashing, and 15.04 UEFI install. So we have all the articles in one place I have also included the previous ones below.
Knowledge Base links:
How to create recovery media for the XPS 13 9343 and Precision M3800 Developer Editions:
http://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/19/HOW10851/en
Dell-Recovery Utility May Crash During Out of Box Experience:
http://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/19/SLN298209/en
How to install Ubuntu on a Dell XPS 13 (9343) developer edition configured for UEFI:
http://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/04/SLN297060/en
Trackpad cursor freezing issue:
http://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/19/SLN297219/EN
May not resume from suspend running 14.04:
http://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/04/SLN297551/en
Unwanted keyboard character repeat:
http://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/19/SLN297563/en
How to Install Broadcom Wireless Driver on XPS 13 9343 from Ubuntu 15.04 Install Media:
http://www.dell.com/support/article/uk/en/ukbsdt1/HOW10806/en
Leverage your support contracts
Remember, in addition to posting your feedback here, we encourage customers to utilize their support contracts and contact the included Dell support (either Consumer Support or ProSupport, depending on whether you purchased it from the Consumer or Small Business sections). This will help us to officially track issues and tackle them systematically.
How to reach ProSupport:
Please continue to give us your feedback on the Developer Edition systems.
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Last but not least here is the final video from DevOps days Austin featuring the one and only John Willis aka Botchagalupe. John gave the closing key note using an intriguing comparison to Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs and Steel.
Take a listen:
Some of the ground John covers:
Extra-credit reading
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