Popular snaps per distro (2020 edition)

Back in mid-2019, we wrote a blog post detailing and comparing the most popular snaps across multiple distributions – Arch Linux, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Manjaro, and Ubuntu. This article gave us a fascinating insight into the usage patterns across these different systems and the … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 4 years ago

Canonical’s Open Operator Collection extends Kubernetes operators to traditional Linux and Windows applications

13th November 2020: Canonical’s Open Operator Collection, the largest collection of application operators, now supports both cloud-native and traditional applications on Windows and Linux. The collection is hosted at Charmhub.io and follows the Open Operator Manifesto. Next-gener … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 4 years ago

10 years and 10 million cores: charting OpenStack’s greatest achievements

Technology anniversaries have become more commonplace in recent years. The iPhone at 10 years old, indeed Canonical itself turned 15 last year. Here though, we want to look at OpenStack reaching double figures this year.  Starting off as a joint project between NASA and Rackspace … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 4 years ago

Less than 6 months to 16.04 ESM: 6 things to prepare

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial Xerus will enter the extended security maintenance (ESM) period in April 2021. This article explains the ESM period and provides a guide for six key considerations when planning a migration path from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Contact us with your ESM questions Wha … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 4 years ago

Open Operators Training Day hosted by Canonical: a co-located KubeCon event

Register for Operators Day Date: Tuesday, November 17Registration Fees: Complimentary KubeCon NA is just around the corner and, as always, we aim to give back to the community in any way we can. That’s why, in the context of the upcoming KubeCon, we’re hosting a full-day training … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 4 years ago

Design and Web team summary – 10th November 2020

The web team here at Canonical run two-week iterations. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Meet the team Hi, my name is Long. I’ve recently joined Canonical on the Web and Design team as a Lead Visual Designer. Joining Canonical during this … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 4 years ago

Malawi’s TNM selects Canonical’s Charmed OpenStack to help lead virtualisation charge

10 November 2020 – Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, today announced that its Charmed OpenStack, an open source private cloud solution that allows businesses to control large pools of computer, storage and networking in a datacentre, has been selected by Telekom Networks Malawi … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 4 years ago

ROS 2 on Kubernetes: a simple talker and listener setup

Kubernetes and ROS make a great match, but ROS2 can be tricky to set up. In this post we demonstrate a scalable system with MicroK8s on Ubuntu. […] | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 4 years ago

Edge-native Linux

Tech innovators use Linux to create intelligent devices for homes, factories, buildings, cities or vehicles etc… These things are deployed at the edge, in privacy sensitive or business critical environments. They require ever more compute to run ever smarter applications. A Linux … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 4 years ago

The State of Robotics – October 2020

This post marks the one year anniversary of the Ubuntu Robotics newsletter: the place we showcase our work and discussing cool robotics happenings. […] | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 4 years ago

The State of Robotics – October 2020

This post marks the one year anniversary of the Ubuntu Robotics newsletter: the place we showcase our work and discussing cool robotics happenings. […] | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 4 years ago

The Hunt for Rogue Time – How we investigated and solved the Chromium snap slow startup problem

In October, we shared a blog post detailing significant snap startup time improvements due to the use of a new compression algorithm. In that article, we focused on the cold and hot application startups, but we did not delve much into the first-run setup scenario. While running o … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 4 years ago

Ubuntu at ROS World 2020: Learn how to do more for your robot

Come and connect with the Ubuntu robotics team on November 12th to answer all of your questions. This is the first time ROSCon has ever been virtual and is the first time it’s ever been free to attend, so we’re looking forward to seeing tons of new faces! We have ROS experts and … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 4 years ago

Open Infrastructure Summit 2020: Highlights from Canonical’s first digital OIS

Another Open Infrastructure Summit just passed, and yet this one was like no other OIS past. Head-sponsoring the first ever virtual OIS was an interesting experience to say the least, with more than 10,000 community members worldwide hoping on the hand-built OIS platform to see w … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 4 years ago

MTS Selects OpenStack and Canonical for Next-Generation Cloud Infrastructure

November 5, 2020 MOSCOW, Russia – MTS (NYSE:MBT; MOEX:MTSS), Russia’s largest mobile operator and a leading provider of media and digital services, announces the selection of Canonical’s Charmed OpenStack to power the company’s next-generation cloud infrastructure. MTS plans to l … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 4 years ago

Ubuntu 20.10: What’s New?

Learn about new features in Ubuntu Server, MAAS, Charmed OpenStack and Charmed Kubernetes | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 4 years ago

Deploying Kubeflow everywhere: desktop, edge, and IoT devices

Kubeflow, the ML toolkit on K8s, now fits on your desktop and edge devices! 🚀 Data science workflows on Kubernetes Kubeflow provides the cloud-native interface between Kubernetes and data science tools: libraries, frameworks, pipelines, and notebooks. > Read more about wh … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 4 years ago

Ubuntu Groovy Gorilla on Raspberry Pi

On the 22nd of October, the 20.10 release was launched, an Ubuntu Desktop image optimised for the Raspberry Pi.  It brings together Ubuntu and Raspberry Pi for educators, inventors and entrepreneurs, bringing the world’s most open platform to the world’s most accessible hardware. … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 4 years ago

OpenStack Charms 20.10 – Victoria, OVN, CNTT and more

Canonical is proud to announce the availability of OpenStack Charms 20.10. This new release introduces a range of exciting features and several improvements which enhance Charmed OpenStack. OpenStack Victoria OpenStack Charms 20.10 brings OpenStack Victoria on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (v … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 4 years ago

USN-4613-1: Python-cryptography vulnerability

Ubuntu is an open source software operating system that runs from the desktop, to the cloud, to all your internet connected things. | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 4 years ago

Accessibility audit of Vanilla framework

The team behind the Vanilla Framework has a background in development, UX and Visual Design. We all care about accessibility, but none of us is an accessibility expert. We were interested in evaluating how well the framework complies with accessibility standards. We decided to st … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 4 years ago

Raspberry Pi 400 with Ubuntu support

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has a new product — the Raspberry Pi 400. The flagship Raspberry Pi 4 was released in June 2019. Since, they added an 8GB model, brought out the Compute Module 4, we certified all Raspberry Pis since Raspberry Pi 2 and we worked together to make the fu … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 4 years ago

How Kubernetes is transforming the industrial edge

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@ubuntu.com | 4 years ago

Exploring ROS 2 with Kubernetes

Construct a prototype ROS 2 system distributed across multiple computers using Kubernetes. Our goal is not only to provide you with a working configuration, but also to help you understand why it succeeds and overcome future design challenges. […] | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 4 years ago

Raspberry Pi 400 with Ubuntu support

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has a new product — the Raspberry Pi 400. The flagship Raspberry Pi 4 was released in June 2019. Since, they added an 8GB model, brought out the Compute Module 4, we certified all Raspberry Pis since Raspberry Pi 2 and we worked together to make the fu … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 4 years ago

Canonical: Etrace – a multi-purpose application profiling tool

These days, the internal workings of Linux applications involve many different moving parts. Sometimes, it can be rather difficult to debug them when things go wrong or run slower than expected. Tracing an application’s execution is one way of understanding potential issues witho … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 4 years ago

Introducing etrace – a multi-purpose application profiling tool

These days, the internal workings of Linux applications involve many different moving parts. Sometimes, it can be rather difficult to debug them when things go wrong or run slower than expected. Tracing an application’s execution is one way of understanding potential issues witho … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 4 years ago

New installation options coming for Ubuntu on WSL

The experience of installing Ubuntu on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) just keeps getting better. Beginning in Windows 10 Insiders Preview build 20246, released today by Microsoft, users can enable a complete WSL experience with simply: This will enable WSL 2, install the lates … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 4 years ago

Kubeflow operators: lifecycle management for the ML stack

Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, releases Charmed Kubeflow, a set of charm operators to deliver the 20+ applications that make up the latest version of Kubeflow, for easy consumption anywhere, from workstations to on-prem, public cloud, and edge. > Visit Charmed-kubeflow.io to … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 4 years ago

Design and Web team summary – 28th October 2020

The web team here at Canonical run two-week iterations. This iteration was slightly different as we began a new cycle. A cycle represents six months of work. Therefore, we spent the first-week planning and scheduling the cycles goals. Therefore, the following highlights of our co … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 4 years ago

Snap speed improvements with new compression algorithm!

Security and performance are often mutually exclusive concepts. A great user experience is one that manages to blend the two in a way that does not compromise on robust, solid foundations of security on one hand, and a fast, responsive software interaction on the other. Snaps are … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 4 years ago

Build a Raspberry Pi Desktop with an Ubuntu heart

On the 22nd October 2020, Canonical released an Ubuntu Desktop image optimised for the Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi Foundation’s 4GB and 8GB boards work out of the box with everything users expect from an Ubuntu Desktop. It is our honour to contribute an optimised Ubuntu Deskto … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 4 years ago

Ubuntu Blog: Canonical & Ubuntu Join AfricaCom Virtual 2020

This year, AfricaCom becomes a virtual event as part of the new Virtual Africa Tech Festival – the largest and most influential tech and telecoms event on the continent. Canonical and Ubuntu will be joining as a Lead Stream Sponsor, introducing the  Digital Infrastructure Investm … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 4 years ago

Automating Server Provisioning in phoenixNap’s Bare Metal Cloud with MAAS (Metal-as-a-Service)

As part of the effort to build a flexible, cloud-native ready infrastructure, phoenixNAP collaborated with Canonical on enabling nearly instant OS installation. Canonical’s MAAS (Metal-as-a-Service) solution allows for automated OS installation on phoenixNAP’s Bare Metal Cloud, m … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 4 years ago

Ubuntu Blog: Canonical & Ubuntu at KubeCon NA Virtual 2020

When: November 17-20, 2020 Where: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2020 Virtual Platform  By now it’s no surprise that KubeCon NA is going virtual, like the majority of events worldwide. Is that bad news? Quite the opposite! According to CNCF, this year’s KubeCon EU – the f … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 4 years ago

OpenStack at 10 – from peak to plateau of productivity

This week is the latest Open Infrastructure Summit, in a week where the OpenStack Foundation became the Open Infrastructure Foundation to reflect the expansion of the organisation’s mission, scope and community to advance open source over the next decade to support open infrastru … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 4 years ago

Ubuntu Blog: Telco cloud: what is that?

Telco cloud or a network function virtualisation infrastructure (NFVI) is a cloud environment optimised for telco workloads. It is usually based on well-known technologies like OpenStack. Thus, in many ways, it resembles ordinary clouds. On the other hand, however, it differs fro … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 4 years ago

Ubuntu 20.10 on Raspberry Pi delivers the full Linux desktop and micro clouds

22nd October 2020: Canonical today released Ubuntu 20.10 with optimised Raspberry Pi images for desktop in support of learners, inventors, educators and entrepreneurs, bringing the world’s most open platform to the world’s most accessible hardware. “In this release, we celebrate … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 4 years ago

Ubuntu Blog: Introducing Ubuntu support for Amazon EKS 1.18

Ubuntu optimized AMIs for Amazon EKS and Kubernetes versions 1.17 and 1.18 are now available. […] | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 4 years ago

The Windows Calculator on Linux with Uno Platform

The good folks in the Uno Platform community have ported the open-source Windows Calculator to Linux. And they’ve done it quicker than Microsoft could bring their browser to Linux.  The calculator is published in the snapstore and can be downloaded right away. If you’re on Ubuntu … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 4 years ago

Ubuntu Blog: Introducing HA MicroK8s, the ultra-reliable, minimal Kubernetes

15th October 2020: Canonical today announced autonomous high availability (HA) clustering in MicroK8s, the lightweight Kubernetes. Already popular for IoT and developer workstations, MicroK8s now gains resilience for production workloads in cloud and server deployments. High avai … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 4 years ago

Ubuntu Blog: Ubuntu wants to code the future of Italy

When is CodeMotion Rome 2020: November 24th-26thLocation: virtual Italian spaceBooth: Canonical / Ubuntu Book a meeting In a year of challenges and changing times, the community gets closer and starts gathering in a different way.  From face to face meet-ups, we moved everything … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 4 years ago

Ubuntu Blog: Homelab clusters: LXD micro cloud on Raspberry Pi

Set up and run your own homelab with the LXD Ubuntu Appliance. Spin up and manage virtual machines (VMs) and containers, run and test workloads across platforms and architectures, and rest assured of security and updates with Ubuntu Core. Follow the tutorial to get started or rea … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 4 years ago

Canonical & Ubuntu at Open Infrastructure Summit 2020

When is Open Infrastructure Summit 2020: October 19th-23rd Where: Everywhere! This year’s OIS is virtual. Get your free ticket Book a meeting This year we’ve probably used the word ‘unprecedented’ almost as often as we’ve said ‘Linux’ and yet life must go on, and certainly so doe … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 4 years ago

Canonical – Supermicro partnership at the NFV&MEC Plugtests 2020

The NFV&MEC Plugtests 2020, hosted remotely during the week of June 15-19th 2020 by ETSI, offered network function virtualisation (NFV) and mobile edge computing (MEC) solution providers, hardware vendors and other companies involved in open source initiatives an opportunity to m … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 4 years ago

Building competitive advantage by adopting cloud-native approach

The business agility imperative With the economies of many countries heading towards recession, increasing regulations, growing security threats and increasing costs, financial services firms need practical solutions, now more than ever. Many of the financial technology firms (‘f … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 4 years ago

Emilia Torino shares what goes into keeping Ubuntu secure

Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu, but who are the people behind Canonical? In this blog series, we get to know some of the different employees that make up our company. Emilia Torino is a Security Generalist at Canonical, and she has over 10 years of experience working in s … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 4 years ago

Canonical expands collaboration with NVIDIA to bring AI to the edge

Canonical has been working closely with NVIDIA for many years to fuel innovation and support open source software with the power of accelerated processing. That already allowed us to jointly deliver GPU acceleration into Linux, OpenStack and container workloads on traditional dat … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 4 years ago