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Canonical
13 December 2023

Canonical joins the OpenAirInterface
Software Alliance

Article Canonical announcements

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...

Canonical
13 December 2023

Michael Hudson-Doyle
12 December 2023

Optimising Ubuntu performance on amd64 architecture

Article Ubuntu

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

Michael Hudson-Doyle
12 December 2023

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

ijlal-loutfi
12 December 2023

robgibbon
12 December 2023

Announcing the Charmed Kafka beta

Article Data Platform

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

robgibbon
12 December 2023

Oliver Smith
11 December 2023

End of year review: Ubuntu Desktop in 2023

Article Desktop

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

Oliver Smith
11 December 2023

Ilenia Zara
11 December 2023

Introducing Canonical’s new open source support portal

Article Ubuntu

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...

Ilenia Zara
11 December 2023

Henry Coggill
7 December 2023

Ubuntu 22.04 FIPS 140-3 modules available for preview

Article FIPS

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...

Henry Coggill
7 December 2023

Andreea Munteanu
6 December 2023

Highlights of the Canonical AI Roadshow 2023

Article AI

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

Andreea Munteanu
6 December 2023

Michelle Anne Tabirao
6 December 2023

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

Article Data Platform

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

Michelle Anne Tabirao
6 December 2023

Hugo Huang
5 December 2023

How to use Ubuntu in GKE on nodes and in containers

Article Cloud and server

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...

Hugo Huang
5 December 2023

Serdar Vural
5 December 2023

Canonical joins the Sylva project

Article Canonical announcements

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...

Serdar Vural
5 December 2023

Philip Williams
5 December 2023

Edge storage with MicroCeph

Article Ceph

Here, there, everywhere – MicroCeph makes edge storage easy Data is everywhere, not just in large centralised data centres, but in smaller outposts, like retail outlets, remote or branch offices, filming locations and even cars. Use cases for edge storage include local processing, content collaboration that cannot take...

Philip Williams
5 December 2023

ilvipero
1 December 2023

Ubuntu Summit 2023 Reflections

Article Ubuntu

We have just returned from the stunning city of Riga, where Canonical hosted the Ubuntu Summit 2023, and we are still buzzing with the energy from meeting so many of you. Preparing this event was a team effort. A small team of us have been meeting for months, brainstorming ideas, preparing huge to-do lists, and

ilvipero
1 December 2023

Bill Wear
30 November 2023

MOTL: Minis Forum N33 NUC

Article Cloud and server

Part 1: The hardware setup As a first attempt at trying MAAS outside the lines (MOTL), let’s pick a random, inexpensive Next Unit of Computing (NUC). Indeed, let’s start with a Minis Forum N33, which is older and “out of print.” The relevant forum is offline, and manuals are hard to Google up. Nice challenge.

Bill Wear
30 November 2023