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Canonical
25 June 2025

Native integration now available for Pure Storage and Canonical LXD

Article Canonical announcements

Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, and Pure Storage, the IT pioneer delivering enterprise-grade all-flash storage, have partnered to introduce a native integration between LXD and Pure Storage FlashArray. This collaboration allows organizations to combine open source virtualization with industry-leading block storage...

Canonical
25 June 2025

Canonical
23 June 2025

Ubuntu Core is now available on MediaTek’s Genio platform

Article IoT

This is the first optimized Ubuntu Core image available on MediaTek’s Genio 350, 510, 700, and 1200 platforms released under the strategic partnership between Canonical and MediaTek Inc. Today Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, and MediaTek announce the official Ubuntu Core launch of the very first optimized Ubuntu...

Canonical
23 June 2025

Canonical
12 May 2025

See a DeepSeek demo running on ESWIN Computing’s EIC77 series at RISC-V Summit Europe 2025 in Paris

Partners AI

Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, and ESWIN Computing have partnered to enable DeepSeek LLM 7B on the EIC77 series, showcasing ESWIN Computing’s powerful NPU, GPU and DSP running on Ubuntu. This development is part of a community development effort between Canonical and ESWIN Computing to bring the latest and greatest...

Canonical
12 May 2025

Canonical
9 May 2025

New 50 TOPS DC-ROMA RISC-V AI PC ships with Ubuntu Desktop 24.04 LTS pre-installed

Article AI

Canonical is excited to announce the launch of DeepComputing’s new 50 TOPS DC-ROMA RISC-V AI PC and AI PC Mini with Ubuntu Desktop 24.04 LTS pre-installed. The PC was launched in collaboration with Framework and is powered by ESWIN’s advanced RISC-V AI SoC EIC7702X—featuring 8 SiFive’s high-performance P550 CPU cores . ...

Canonical
9 May 2025

Canonical
30 April 2025

Canonical announces first Ubuntu Desktop image for Qualcomm Dragonwing™ Platform with Ubuntu 24.04

Article Canonical announcements

This public beta enables the full Ubuntu Desktop experience on the Qualcomm Dragonwing™ QCS6490 and QCS5430 processors and complements existing Ubuntu Server support with significant enhancements. Together, these updates provide a powerful development environment for building next-generation AI-driven edge applications....

Canonical
30 April 2025

Canonical
23 April 2025

Canonical and Ampere announce AmpereOne® SoC certification and other partnership milestones

Article AI

Ampere and Canonical are pleased to celebrate new milestones in their ongoing partnership including the completion of Canonical’s System-on-Chip (SoC) certification on AmpereOne®, and the extension of the partnership into the AI Platform Alliance, a strategic group of full stack ecosystem partners that provide...

Canonical
23 April 2025

Canonical
17 April 2025

Canonical Releases Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin

Article Canonical announcements

The latest interim release of Ubuntu introduces “devpacks” for popular frameworks like Spring, along with performance enhancements across a broad range of hardware. 17 April 2025 Today Canonical announced the release of Ubuntu 25.04, codenamed “Plucky Puffin,” available to download and install from...

Canonical
17 April 2025

Canonical
8 April 2025

Ubuntu developer images now available for OrangePi RV2: a low-cost RISC-V SBC

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Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, is excited to announce the availability of Ubuntu developer images for the new OrangePi RV2 RISC-V single board computer (SBC). We’re delighted to add this latest piece of hardware to our Ubuntu developer ecosystem, where our RISC-V partners build their own Ubuntu images, as we’re...

Canonical
8 April 2025

Canonical
28 March 2025

KubeCon Europe 2025: Containers & Connections with Ubuntu

Article container

It’s hard to believe that the first KubeCon took place nearly 10 years ago. Back then, Kubernetes was still in its early days, and the world was only just beginning to understand the power of container orchestration. Fast-forward to today, and Kubernetes is a fundamental part of cloud-native development, taught in...

Canonical
28 March 2025

Canonical
26 March 2025

70% of IT teams spend more than 6 hours per week on security patching – new IDC research

Article Canonical announcements

Open source software is a popular tool for businesses for many reasons, but this adoption has introduced new challenges in maintaining their open source software supply chain. 57% of organizations source their packages from upstream open source repositories, and 51% from ecosystem packages like pip or npm. The research...

Canonical
26 March 2025

Canonical
25 March 2025

Rivos and Canonical partner to deliver scalable RISC-V solutions in Data Centers and enable an enterprise-grade Ubuntu experience across Rivos platforms

Article Canonical announcements

Rivos Inc. brings scalable, high-performance AI accelerating solutions to the Data Center, helping to turn the benefits of both AI and Data Analytics into a reality. Rivos is working with Canonical to deliver the widely utilized Ubuntu OS on top of the Data Center-class integrated RISC-V CPU and innovative GPGPU...

Canonical
25 March 2025

Canonical
18 March 2025

Ubuntu now officially supports NVIDIA Jetson: powering the future of AI at the edge

Article AI

Canonical announces the General Availability of Ubuntu for the NVIDIA® Jetson Orin™ for edge AI and robotics, bringing optimized performance, out-of-the-box compatibility, and an easy pathway to high-performance AI solutions for AI developers everywhere. Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, announced official support for...

Canonical
18 March 2025

Canonical
6 March 2025

Canonical to collaborate with Renesas to accelerate innovation in Enterprise AI

Article Canonical announcements

London, UK – Mar 6, 2025 – Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, today announced that Renesas Electronics Corporation, a global leader in semiconductor solutions, has joined Canonical’s silicon partner program to deliver cutting-edge solutions tailored to meet the growing demands of edge computing and AI applications. As...

Canonical
6 March 2025

Canonical
4 March 2025

Certification as a strategy: How Ubuntu & SystemReady boost hardware competitiveness

Article Partners

Canonical and MediaTek enhance reliability, accelerate market entry and reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for ODMs through Ubuntu Certified Hardware and Arm SystemReady programs The hardware ecosystem is evolving rapidly, presenting a continuous challenge in ensuring that new hardware is market-ready and meets...

Canonical
4 March 2025