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The Lunar Lobster has landed ahead of Ubuntu 23.04

Prepare your desktop for the arrival of Ubuntu 23.04 with the reveal of our official Lunar Lobster wallpapers and the winners of our community competition.

Time to prepare for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS End of Standard Support on 31 May 2023

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS ‘Bionic Beaver‘, one of the most popular Ubuntu releases, will reach the end of the standard, five-year maintenance window for Long-Term Support (LTS) releases on 31 May 2023. Find out more What is an Ubuntu LTS release? Ubuntu LTS releases provide a stable, enterprise platform for development and production, with five ye

Canonical teams up with MediaTek to optimise Ubuntu for IoT innovations

14 March 2023, Embedded World, Nuremberg: Canonical today announced the first Ubuntu images optimised for MediaTek’s Genio 1200 System on Chip (SoC). The solution spurs AI innovation for enterprises, startups, emerging brands and leading ODMs in diverse markets. By partnering to enable Ubuntu on the Genio platform, MediaTek and Canonical

Canonical announces Ubuntu Core compatible with SystemReady IR Systems, highlights OS security with PSA Certified Level 1 achievement

Ubuntu Core, Arm SystemReady and PSA Certified are transforming how the industry think about connected edge devices, security and device compatibility. [14 March 2023, Embedded World, Nuremberg.] Canonical today announced its Ubuntu Core operating system (OS) is now compatible with the Arm® SystemReady™ IR system specification.  In additi

Functional safety in automotive: contributing to ISO 26262 and ISO 21434 standards

the automotive industry is highly complex and regulated, especially when it comes to functional safety and cybersecurity.

MAAS 3.3 is now available

In this blog, you will learn about some of the new features now available in the latest MAAS release.

Canonical enables Ubuntu on Microchip’s PolarFire® SoC FPGA Icicle Kit RISC-V board

March 8, 2023: Canonical published the optimised Ubuntu release for the first RISC-V based SoC FPGA – Microchip’s PolarFire® SoC FPGA Icicle Kit, expanding support for the RISC-V open source community.  RISC-V, a new paradigm for open source hardware Open standards and collaboration are strategic to both hardware and software across indus

Charmed Kubeflow 1.7 Beta is here. Try it now!

Canonical is happy to announce that Charmed Kubeflow 1.7 is now available in Beta. Kubeflow is a foundational part of the MLOps ecosystem that has been evolving over the years. With Charmed Kubeflow 1.7, users benefit from the ability to run serverless workloads and perform model inference regardless of the machine learning framework they


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Canonical joins the Eclipse Foundation’s Software Defined Vehicle working group

Canonical is excited to announce it is now an official member of the Eclipse Software Defined Vehicle Working Group (SDV WG). Eclipse SDV focuses on software-defined vehicles (SDVs) and pushes innovations in automotive-grade solutions using open-source software. By offering an open technology platform, automotive companies can use and int

What is real-time Linux? Part III

Welcome to the final post of this three-part series on real-time Linux. As market adoption of real-time computing continues to rise, real-time in the Linux kernel is emerging as a valuable solution on the software side. A real-time Linux kernel on its own, however, will not necessarily make a system real-time.   We clarified this

What happens in the Craft team stays in the Craft team … until today

Snapcraft, Charmcraft, Rockcraft … you may have heard of these tools, but have you ever wondered how – and by who – they are developed? These tools are the intellectual and keyboard-driven product of Canonical’s Craft team. Officially, the team’s name is *Craft, and the asterisk symbol can easily be seen as a “star” (The

Join us at Everything Open 2023 in Melbourne to Learn about Open Source Technologies and Best Practices for Linux Security

Are you interested in the latest trends in open source technologies? Look no further than Everything Open 2023 in Melbourne, Australia! Event info: https://2023.everythingopen.au/ From 14-16 March 2023, the brightest minds in open source technologies will come together to share their expertise, insights, and experiences. If you’re passion

Join us at Operator Day, hosted by Canonical at KubeCon Europe 2023

Join us at the 6th edition of Operator Day at KubeCon Europe – Speakers will talk about their software operator journey, from configuration management to application management.

Top 5 MLOps challenges

After ChatGPT took off, the AI/ML market suddenly became attractive to everyone. But is it that easy to kickstart a project? More importantly, what do you need to scale an AI initiative? MLOps or machine learning operations is the answer when it comes to automating machine learning workflows. Adopting MLOps is like adopting DevOps, you

Meet Canonical at Embedded World 2023

Embedded World is almost here! With 930+ exhibitors, 200 nonstop hours of knowledge sharing, and an exciting programme structured along 9 tracks with 60+ sessions and 18 classes, Embedded World is the must-attend global event for the embedded community. Join Canonical at Booth 4-600 in Hall 4 to discuss secure open-source adoption for IoT

Setup your own VPN server

Why do we need a VPN server? A VPN (Virtual Private Network) server is a network server that allows users to create a secure and encrypted connection to another network over the internet. Here are some reasons why we need a VPN server: Security: VPNs provide a secure way to access the internet, protecting sensitive


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