Canonical Blog

Valeria Kokina
27 June 2024

Meet Canonical at SIGGRAPH 2024: Innovating Animation and VFX

Ubuntu Article

We are coming to Siggraph 2024. Discover how Ubuntu and other Canonical solutions can drive innovation in animation and enable secure usage of open-source software. ...

Canonical
26 June 2024

Canonical offers 12 year LTS for any open source Docker image

Canonical announcements Article

‘Everything LTS’ – Canonical will build distroless Docker images to customer spec that include upstream components not packaged in Ubuntu, and fix critical CVEs within 24 hours, supported on RHEL, Ubuntu, VMware or public cloud K8s for 12+ years. London, 26 June 2024 Canonical today expanded its LTS offering beyond the ‘deb’ packages of ...

Henry Coggill
24 June 2024

Meet DISA-STIG compliance requirements for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with USG

DISA STIG Article

DISA, the Defense Information Systems Agency, recently published their Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS in April 2024. We’re pleased to now release the Ubuntu Security Guide profile to enable customers to automatically harden and audit their Ubuntu 22.04 LTS systems for the STIG. What is a STIG? A STIG i ...

Benjamin Ryzman
21 June 2024

Data Centre AI evolution: combining MAAS and NVIDIA smart NICs

AI Article

It has been several years since Canonical committed to implementing support for NVIDIA smart NICs in our products. Among them, Canonical’s metal-as-a-service (MAAS) enables the management and control of smart NICs on top of bare-metal servers. NVIDIA BlueField smart NICs are very high data rate network interface cards providing advanced s ...

Amir Abdel Baki
20 June 2024

From support engineering to UX: Piper’s career progression at Canonical

Ubuntu Article

Career progression is crucial to employee engagement and retention. At Canonical, we encourage employees to develop their own personal development journeys, giving them the chance to apply internally for roles they are passionate about, even if they come from different technical backgrounds. We love seeing our people grow and develop. We ...

Philip Williams
20 June 2024

Navigating the cost of cloud storage in the public sector

Ceph Article

Like many other industries, organisations in the public sector have been keen to make use of the flexibility offered by cloud computing, but are now observing unpredictable and rising costs. Much of which can be mitigated through careful planning and on-premise infrastructure. Government guidance now recommends switching to a strategy of ...

Jason Nucciarone
18 June 2024

Ubuntu Summit 2024

Ubuntu Article

We are excited to announce that Ubuntu Summit 2024 will be held in The Hague, the Netherlands this October 25 – 27th! The Ubuntu Summit for the last two years has served as a showcase for the innovative and the ambitious. We aim to shine a light on those who are not satisfied with the ...

Stephanie Domas
18 June 2024

A CISO’s comprehensive breakdown of the Cyber Resilience Act

Ubuntu Article

Strong, wide-reaching regulation can bring safety to communities – but it can also bring uncertainty. The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) has proven no exception to this universal rule. Across the open source community and the wider tech landscape, people have been greeting the news with the whole spectrum of reactions: concern, anxiety, hope. ...

Felicia Jia
18 June 2024

Empowering RISC-V with open source through Ubuntu

Silicon Article

Canonical collaborates with partners to deliver optimised Ubuntu on RISC-V platforms, empowering innovation on RISC-V Open source and global standards have a long history of success because they have a license framework that ensures anyone, anywhere can have ongoing access to them. RISC-V, an open standard Instruction Set Architecture ( ...

Andreea Munteanu
17 June 2024

Top 5 reasons to use Ubuntu for your AI/ML projects

AI Article

For 20 years, Ubuntu has been at the cutting edge of technology. Pioneers looking to innovate new technologies and ideas choose Ubuntu as the medium to do it, whether they’re building devices for space, deploying a fleet of robots or building up financial infrastructure. The rise of machine learning is no exception and has encouraged ...

Aaryan Porwal
16 June 2024

Pair Programming: The Ubuntu Way

People and culture Article

At our core, we believe in Ubuntu: “I am what I am because of who we all are.” This philosophy of interconnectedness is woven into everything we do, including how we approach software development. This belief in our interconnectedness extends to how we build software. Pair programming, a practice where two developers work side-by-side, is ...