Canonical Blog

Michelle Anne Tabirao
7 September 2023

OpenSearchCon 2023 is coming, meet us in Seattle

Ubuntu Article

The search, analytics, and database communities are buzzing with excitement as the countdown to OpenSearchCon 2023 begins. This second annual conference will be a 3-day event in Grand Sheraton Seattle on 27-29 September. This year’s conference program is divided into four tracks to reflect the community’s interests in search, analytics, ...

Canonical
6 September 2023

Canonical launches AI roadshow

AI Article

Series of events will highlight generative AI use cases powered by open source software London, UK. 6 September 2023. Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, is launching its first AI roadshow. The series of events and presentations will highlight how enterprises can make better use of their own data and make artificial intelligence (AI) use ...

Philip Williams
6 September 2023

Cloud storage for enterprises

Ceph Article

Any data-centric organisation faces the prospect of data growth at some point in their existence; it is estimated that more than 2,500 Petabytes (PB) of new data is created every day. While only a few organisations will ever have to deal with that kind of scale, it is important to plan ahead for your own ...

Aaron Prisk
6 September 2023

Into the Labyrinth: Revealing the Mantic Minotaur

Desktop Article

Few creatures from mythology have captured the imagination of mankind quite like the legendary Minotaur. A half-man, half-bull behemoth that is said to guard the halls of the impenetrable labyrinth of Crete. The ancient sagas stated that only the bravest of warriors would be able to match its incredible strength and escape its mystifying ...

Canonical
5 September 2023

Empowering Australian government innovation: a secure path to open source excellence

AI Security

The Australian Federal Government is not alone in dealing with challenges like natural disasters, global pandemics and economic uncertainty. Like many governments, they are looking for new and innovative ways to tackle these challenges. FST Government 2023 is an exciting conference that brings over 200 government leaders together to explo ...

Michael C. Jaeger
4 September 2023

Efficiency redefined: Discover the power of software operators during Operator Day, co-located at KubeCon North America 2023

Charms Article

The 7th Operator Day is a virtual event and will take place on the first day of the KubeCon week, Monday, 6 November 2023. The event is entirely virtual. You can dial in from anywhere and attend. You can register at the KubeCon NA 2023 conference or directly at the event page. ...

Miona Aleksic
1 September 2023

LXD 5.17 is now available

Cloud and server Article

An overview at what’s new in LXD 5.16 and 5.17 releases. ...

arighi
31 August 2023

Get familiar with “Rusty” kernel programming in Ubuntu Lunar Lobster

Ubuntu Article

The Linux kernel has recently introduced the Rust programming language as an alternative to C for creating kernel modules. Rust is a strongly, statically typed programming language with a focus on memory safety features which produces extremely compact executable code. These properties, paired with its good tooling, make Rust a natural ch ...

Michelle Anne Tabirao
31 August 2023

Meet Canonical and OpenSearch.org at Open Source Summit Europe 2023

Ubuntu Article

We are excited to celebrate all things open source at the upcoming Open Source Summit Europe 2023 in the beautiful city of Bilbao, Spain. The event will take place on 19-21 September. The summit serves as a reminder of the open source movement’s ongoing significance, fostering a space where attendees can explore the latest trends, ...

Andreea Munteanu
30 August 2023

LLMs explained: how to build your own private ChatGPT

AI Article

Large language models (LLMs) are the topic of the year. They are as complex as they are exciting, and everyone can agree they put artificial intelligence in the spotlight. Once LLms were released to the public, the hype around them grew and so did their potential use cases – LLM-based chatbots being one of them. ...