Canonical Ceph with IntelⓇ Quick Assist Technology (QAT) When storing large amounts of data, the cost ($) to store each gigabyte (GB) is the typical measure used to gauge the efficiency of the storage system. The biggest driver of storage cost is the protection method used. It is … | Continue reading
Over the past 5 years, Canonical has been contributing to Flutter, including building out Linux support for Flutter applications, publishing libraries to help integrate into the Linux desktop and building modern applications for Ubuntu, including our software store. Last year we … | Continue reading
As we move into 2025, we wanted to reflect on the crowning event of the year: the Ubuntu Summit. Just over two months ago, we celebrated Ubuntu’s 20th birthday in The Hague, the Netherlands. We’re still buzzing from the electric atmosphere you all brought to this event, as we cam … | Continue reading
With the release of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) and Ubuntu Core 24, Canonical introduced a 12-year Long Term Support commitment for 32-bit Arm® processors, addressing the critical time_t overflow issue, commonly known as the “Year 2038 problem.” These processors, essential fo … | Continue reading
In this third and final part of the series, I’ll provide some tips on how to set up your roadmap and effectively demonstrate compliance without overburdening your teams. If you’re just joining the fun now, in our two previous editions we covered who NIS2 applies to and what requi … | Continue reading
Open source is one of the most exciting, but often misunderstood, innovations of our modern world. I still remember the first time I installed linux on my laptop, saw the vast array of packages I could install on it, all the utilities and libraries that make it work, all the foru … | Continue reading
In my previous blog, we ran through what NIS2 is and who it applies to. In this second part of the series, I’ll break down the main requirements you’ll find in NIS2 and help translate them into actionable and practical measures you can take to achieve NIS2 compliance. Join me in … | Continue reading
The EU NIS2 directive, which calls for strengthening cybersecurity across the European Union, is now active in all member states. Join me for this 3-part blog post series in which I’ll explain what it is, help you understand if it is applicable to your company and how you can bec … | Continue reading
Security researchers at Google (Pedro Gallegos, Simon Scannell, and Jasiel Spelman) discovered vulnerabilities in the rsync server and rsync client. The rsync server vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-12084 and CVE-2024-12085) ultimately allow remote code execution (RCE). The rsync client … | Continue reading
Introducing trusted open source database containers 
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Introducing trusted open source database containers It’s time to stop proclaiming that “cloud native is the future”. Kubernetes has just celebrated its 10 year anniversary, and 76% of respondents to the latest CNCF Annual Survey reported that they have adopted cloud native techn … | Continue reading
GenAI is transforming how we approach technology. This blog explores how you can use Canonical’s Data Science Stack (DSS) to set up your environment and dive into Hugging Face’s new self-paced course on LLMs. Learn how to build your first model and explore new GenAI topics this y … | Continue reading
Learn how Canonical is using Python Flask and the 12-factor charm framework to simplify the development of Canonical.com and Ubuntu.com | Continue reading
At Canonical, the work of our teams is strongly embedded in the open source principles and philosophy. We believe open source software will become the most prevalent method of software development and delivery in the future. Being open source is more than making the source of you … | Continue reading
Technology procurement directly influences business success. The equipment you procure will determine how your teams deliver projects and contribute to your success. So what does being “well-equipped” look like in the world of Linux laptops? In this blog, we’ll lay down the best … | Continue reading
How to create a robust enterprise AI infrastructure for RAG systems using open source tooling?A highlight on how open source can help | Continue reading
Canonical is continuously hiring new talent. Being a remote- first company, Canonical’s new joiners receive a unique onboarding experience. In their first weeks, they are introduced to the different departments and the various tools they use to work asynchronously across the glob … | Continue reading
In software, patches are updates that are designed to overcome problems, flaws or vulnerabilities in the programming. Patch management is the process of gathering and applying these patches to the target software, devices or systems. […] | Continue reading
The goal of this guide is to show you how to develop a model capable of classifying different species of Iris flowers based on their characteristics, such as sepal length and petal width. This will help you to learn the fundamentals of building and deploying machine learning mode … | Continue reading
Ubuntu and Ubuntu Pro support Microsoft’s Azure Cobalt 100 Virtual Machines, featuring their new 64-bit Arm processors. With over 95% of packages compiled for this architecture, users can deploy a wide range of workloads—from application servers to machine learning—while benefiti … | Continue reading
Canonical is pleased to announce security patching and support for Valkey through the Ubuntu Pro subscription. Ubuntu Pro is a subscription service for open-source software security, compliance and support that expands the maintenance period for all packages distributed in Ubuntu … | Continue reading
How does opensearch work? OpenSearch is an open-source search and analytics suite. Developers build solutions for search and more! | Continue reading
RAG explained: is a technique that enhances generative AI models by utilizing external knowledge sources such as documents and extensive databases. | Continue reading
Vulnerability management is the holistic process of identifying and handling security risks in an organization’s networks, systems and devices. Vulnerability management serves an overarching strategy that describes and outlines the many individual efforts and steps taken to reduc … | Continue reading
An SBOM boils down to a detailed and accessible list of all the components that make up your software and where they come from. n this article, we’ll examine what an SBOM is, what information it must include, and the approaches that developers and manufacturers alike should be co … | Continue reading
We are pleased to announce that SiFive, ESWIN Computing and Canonical are enabling Ubuntu 24.04 LTS on the HiFive Premier P550, a development platform that offers a premium RISC-V development experience, an important milestone for the RISC-V development community. This collaborat … | Continue reading
I always find the Olympics to be an unusual experience. I’m hardly an athletics fanatic, yet I can’t help but get swept up in the spirit of the competition. When the Olympics took place in Paris last summer, I suddenly began rooting for my country in sports I barely knew existed. … | Continue reading
Canonical is excited to return to the Mobile World Congress (MWC), taking place in Barcelona on March 3-6, 2025. Next year’s event brings attendees together around a new theme: Converge. Create. Connect. This edition will delve into topics like enterprise reinvention and cover ho … | Continue reading
New partnership program for open source vulnerability scanning organizations will enhance open source software vulnerability information through more accurate, timely and actionable results. Today, Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, announced its new Ubuntu Security Research All … | Continue reading
Typically, a technical writer takes the product created by a development team, and writes the documentation that expresses the product to its users. At Canonical we take a different approach. Documentation is part of the product. It’s the responsibility of the whole team. Documen … | Continue reading
Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, is proud to sponsor HPE Discover More in Mumbai. Join us to learn how Canonical and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) can help you securely advance your business with comprehensive open source solutions that span from infrastructure to MLOps p … | Continue reading
This public beta is the first optimized image to be released under the collaboration between Canonical and Qualcomm® Technologies to bring Ubuntu and Ubuntu Core to devices powered by Qualcomm® IoT processors. December 2, 2024: Today Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, and Qualco … | Continue reading
Industrial cybersecurity is on every CISO’s mind as manufacturers strive to integrate their IT and OT operations to drive efficiency and productivity. However, with increased connectivity comes heightened risk. This means that securing devices, networks, and systems is a critical … | Continue reading
Authd allows Entra ID authentication on both Ubuntu Desktop and Server. Learn how to configure Authd at scale using Landscape and Cloud-init […] | Continue reading
With automation spanning virtually every sector of society, real-time capable operating systems (OS) are becoming critical across industries, from automotive and telecommunications, to industrial manufacturing. A real-time operating system (RTOS) ensures precise and deterministic … | Continue reading
Today, EdgeIQ and Canonical announced the release of the EdgeIQ Coda snap and official support of Ubuntu Core on the EdgeIQ Symphony platform. EdgeIQ Symphony helps you simplify and scale workflows for device fleet operations, data consumption and delivery, and application orches … | Continue reading
In 2025, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) will reach the end of its standard five-year support window. It’s time to start thinking about your options for upgrading. What is an Ubuntu long-term support (LTS) release? Ubuntu long-term support releases (LTS) are released every 2 years … | Continue reading
Canonical is excited to be partnering with Dell Technologies at the upcoming Dell Technologies Forum – London, taking place on 26th November. This prestigious event brings together industry leaders and technology enthusiasts to explore the latest advancements and solutions shapin … | Continue reading
London, 19 November 2024. Canonical has collaborated with Microsoft as an early adopter partner and tested Microsoft Azure IoT Operations on Ubuntu Core and Kubernetes, which is notable as Microsoft today released Azure IoT Operations, a unified data plane providing significant i … | Continue reading
Introduction With the recent announcement of the release of Azure IoT Operations, Microsoft has provided its customers with a unified data plane offering significant improvements in node data capture, edge-based telemetry processing, and cloud-ingress. Combining Azure IoT Operati … | Continue reading
Qualys discovered vulnerabilities which allow a local attacker to gain root privileges in the needrestart package (CVE-2024-48990, CVE-2024-48991, CVE-2024-48992, and CVE-2024-11003) and a related issue in libmodule-scandeps-perl (CVE-2024-10224). The vulnerabilities affect Debia … | Continue reading
Date: December 4-5th, 2024 Location: Geneva, Switzerland In just a few weeks, Cephalocon will be held at CERN in Geneva. After last year’s successful Cephalocon in Amsterdam, which was the first live event held since the pandemic, it is great to return to regular community gather … | Continue reading
Who will win the race to the perfect SDV? The automotive industry is experiencing a major transformation, driven by the integration of advanced software systems into vehicles. As cars become smarter and more connected, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) are moving away from … | Continue reading
Software developers spend a huge amount of effort working on optimization – extracting more speed and better performance from their algorithms and programs. This work usually involves a lot of time-consuming manual investigation, making automatic performance optimization a hot to … | Continue reading
Canonical announces the first MicroCloud LTS release. MicroCloud 2.1.0 LTS features support for single-node deployments, improved security posture, and more flexibility during the initialization process. | Continue reading
Canonical is thrilled to be joining forces with Dell Technologies at the upcoming Dell Technologies Forum – Paris, taking place on 19 November. This premier event brings together industry leaders and technology enthusiasts to explore the latest advancements and solutions shaping … | Continue reading
In today’s massive private mobile network (PMN) market, one of the most common approaches to PMN software and infrastructure are proprietary private business solutions. However, as our recent demonstrations at the October 2024 Ubuntu Summit in the Hague showed, open source softwa … | Continue reading
Canonical has developed a unique onboarding process that enables new hires to quickly settle and establish themselves in our globally distributed environment. In this series, we interview team members who joined the company within the last year to ask them about their experience … | Continue reading