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Canonical
13 December 2023

Canonical joins the OpenAirInterface
Software Alliance

Canonical announcements Article

Canonical announced today that it has joined the board of the OpenAirInterface Software Alliance (OSA) as a Strategic Member. By working together, both organisations aim to develop an end-to-end, open source and open API wireless software stack, and to deliver turnkey solutions for customers and partners. While 5G is now widely deployed a ...


Michael Hudson-Doyle
12 December 2023

Optimising Ubuntu performance on amd64 architecture

Ubuntu Article

Everyone wants the Linux distribution they are using to be fast. This is practically a content-free statement, of course: who would want their distro to be slow? But at the same time, what does it mean for your distribution to be fast? For example, Ubuntu 21.10 switched the default compression for packages to zstd, which ...


ijlal-loutfi
12 December 2023

Ubuntu confidential VMs with Intel® TDX are now in public preview on Azure

Confidential computing Confidential computing

Discover the enhanced security of Ubuntu Confidential VMs on Azure. With Intel TDX technology which encrypt your workloads at run time. Explore the public preview today and experience a new level of cloud security ...


robgibbon
12 December 2023

Announcing the Charmed Kafka beta

Data Platform Article

Charmed Kafka is a complete solution to manage the full lifecycle of Apache Kafka. The Canonical Data Fabric team is pleased to announce the first beta release of Charmed Kafka, our solution for Apache Kafka®. Apache Kafka® is a free, open source message broker for event processing at massive scale. Kafka is ideal for building ...


Oliver Smith
11 December 2023

End of year review: Ubuntu Desktop in 2023

Desktop Article

As 2023 draws to a close, it’s time to look back on the evolution of Ubuntu Desktop over the last twelve months. ...


Ilenia Zara
11 December 2023

Introducing Canonical’s new open source support portal

Ubuntu Article

A streamlined gateway for open source support Amplifying the global impact of open source is at the heart of Canonical’s mission. Support is a crucial part of this exciting journey, especially when it comes to helping enterprises, institutions and communities around the world solve real-world problems through their IT infrastructure and a ...


Henry Coggill
7 December 2023

Ubuntu 22.04 FIPS 140-3 modules available for preview

FIPS Article

Canonical has been working with our testing lab partner, atsec information security, to prepare the cryptographic modules in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) for certification with NIST under the new FIPS 140-3 standard. The modules passed all of atsec’s algorithm validation tests and are in the queue awaiting NIST’s approval. We can’t ...


Andreea Munteanu
6 December 2023

Highlights of the Canonical AI Roadshow 2023

AI Article

It’s a wrap – Canonical AI Roadshow 2023 has come to an end. From Brazil to the United Arab Emirates, from Europe to the US, we’ve spent an amazing 10 weeks talking with people all over the world about how to innovate at speed with open source artificial intelligence (AI), and how to make enterprise ...


Michelle Anne Tabirao
6 December 2023

Charmed MongoDB: the operator you need for managing your document database

Data Platform Article

Charmed MongoDB primary mission is to simplify the MongoDB experience so it can be an operated database powerhouse. ...


Hugo Huang
5 December 2023

How to use Ubuntu in GKE on nodes and in containers

Cloud and server Article

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) traces its roots back to Google’s development of Borg in 2004, a Google internal system managing clusters and applications. In 2014, Google introduced Kubernetes, an open-source platform based on Borg’s principles, gaining rapid popularity for automating containerized application deployment. In 2015, Google ...


Serdar Vural
5 December 2023

Canonical joins the Sylva project

Canonical announcements Telecommunications

Canonical is proud to announce that we have joined the Sylva project of Linux Foundation Europe as a General Member. We aim to bring our open source infrastructure solutions to Sylva and contribute to the project’s goal of providing a platform to validate cloud-native telco functions. Sylva was created to accelerate the cloudification of ...