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If you’re here, you likely already know about preemption, determinism, and real-time capable operating systems. If that’s the case, and you want to learn how to get up and running with Real-time Ubuntu, skip ahead now to find out how to enable the kernel on your workstation. If you’d like a short refresher, we have

Canonical’s MAAS User Interface has been ranked as the top-quality software project in its category by the quarterly TIOBE Software Quality Assurance Award

Effective July 23rd, 2025 the Open Infrastructure Foundation (OIF) has officially joined one of the world’s largest and most influential open source communities: the Linux Foundation. This strategic move reflects the accelerating trend toward open source standardization and democratization – a movement Canonical has proudly supported sinc

Introducing engineering practice leadership at Canonical

The integration delivers reliable, cost-effective virtualization for modern IT infrastructure  Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has collaborated with Dell Technologies on a native integration between Canonical LXD and Dell PowerFlex software-defined infrastructure. The combined solutions for open source virtualization and high-perfor

This year, UbuCon Africa takes place in Arusha, Tanzania. It’s co-located with DjangoCon Africa 2025 (11th-15th August) at Life Fitness Hall, Njiro. The whole event is five days of open source engagement and collaboration. There’ll be three days of talks, on programming, technology, careers, society and business, followed by two more of h

ESWIN Computing partners with Canonical to unveil a low cost, performant RISC-V SBC with Ubuntu as the preferred operating system We are excited to announce that ESWIN Computing, in collaboration with Canonical, is bringing Ubuntu 24.04 LTS to the ESWIN Computing EBC77 Series Single Board Computer  (SBC for short). The EBC77 is  a cutting

In the world of enterprise IT, “support” can mean many things. For some, it’s a safety net – insurance for the day something breaks. For others, it’s the difference between a minor hiccup and a full-scale outage. At Canonical, it means a simple, comprehensive subscription that takes care of everything, so that everything you build

Date: 11 – 13 August 2025 Booth: 353 Book a meeting You know the old saying: what happens in Vegas… transforms your AI journey with trusted open source. On August 11-13, Canonical is back at AI4 2025 to share the secrets of building secure, scalable AI infrastructure to accelerate every stage of your machine learning

The RISC-V Summit China is an annual event that brings together the global RISC-V community – including technical, industry, domain, and ecosystem groups who define the architecture’s specifications. All the experts will meet in Shanghai, China, to share technology breakthroughs, industry milestones, and case studies. Canonical is proud t

Career progression doesn’t follow a single path – and at Canonical, we embrace that. Our culture encourages individuals to explore roles aligned with their evolving skills and interests, even if it means stepping into a completely new technical space. Internal mobility is more than just a policy here;  it’s something we actively support a

July 10, 2025: Today, Canonical announced the release of Charmed Feast, an enterprise solution for feature management with seamless integration with Charmed Kubeflow, Canonical’s distribution of the popular open source MLOps platform. Charmed Feast provides the full breadth of the upstream Feast capabilities, adding multi-cloud capabiliti

Cybersecurity in the automotive world isn’t just a best practice anymore – it’s a regulatory imperative. With vehicles becoming software-defined platforms, connected to everything from mobile phones to cloud services, the attack surface has expanded dramatically. The cybersecurity risk is serious, and concrete. And with regulations like U

Secure homelabs – and more – for the entire family Ubuntu Pro isn’t just for enterprises – it’s for the passionate community that powers and supports open source every day. From secure remote access to homelab hardening, Ubuntu Pro helps users get more from their systems, whether at work or at home. In this series,

Welcome to the Q2 2025 edition of the State of Silicon and Devices by Canonical. In this quarter, we have seen momentum accelerate in edge computing, as well as growing interest in hardware platforms designed for AI, automation, and long-term maintainability. From Ubuntu Desktop arriving on Qualcomm’s Dragonwing processors, to demonstrati

NVIDIA JetPack 4 reached its end-of-life (EOL) in November 2024, marking the end of security updates for this widely deployed stack. JetPack 4 has driven innovation in countless devices powered by NVIDIA Jetson, serving as the foundation of edge AI production deployments across multiple sectors. But now, the absence of security maintenanc