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Canonical produces Ubuntu, provides commercial services for Ubuntu's users, and works with hardware manufacturers, software vendors and cloud partners to certify Ubuntu.


Canonical
18 January 2022

Ubuntu introduces the Ubuntu Security Guide to ease DISA-STIG compliance

Ubuntu Article

January 17th: London, UK – Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, the world’s most popular operating system across private and public clouds, now offers the Ubuntu Security Guide tooling for compliance with the DISA Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. The new automated tooling builds on Canonical’s track rec ...


Canonical
16 December 2021

Log4Shell: Log4j remote code execution vulnerability

Security Article

Last updated on 18th January 2022 to include the latest vulnerability updates. A high impact vulnerability was discovered in Apache Log4j 2, a widely deployed software component used by a lot of Java applications to facilitate logging. An attacker who can control the log messages or their parameters can cause the application to execute ar ...


Canonical
15 December 2021

The EPC-U3233 by Advantech gets Ubuntu certified to accelerate AIoT Applications

Internet of Things Article

Canonical and Advantech have collaborated to help enterprises accelerate Edge AIoT Applications with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS certified on the  EPC-U3233, powered by an 8th Gen Intel® Core™ i series processor. This compact fanless embedded PC facilitates data-intensive computing in IoT edge applications. By certifying the Advantech’s EPC-U3233 fo ...


Canonical
14 December 2021

Canonical teams with Xilinx to accelerate the development of adaptive SoCs

Ubuntu Article

Strategic collaboration designed to offer enterprises a seamless path from their evaluation kits development to production for IoT devices across multiple Xilinx device families December 14, 2021: Canonical and Xilinx Inc. announced today the publication of Ubuntu images optimised for Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ evaluation boards and the prod ...


Canonical
30 November 2021

CyberDog: a four legged robot revolution with Ubuntu

Ubuntu Article

Late this year, Chinese tech giant Xiaomi unveiled CyberDog: a quadrupedal, experimental, open-source robot that the firm claims will improve the robot development environment and promote the development of the robot industry. Today, Canonical dives into the specifications of this four legged robot and discover how Ubuntu is helping the d ...


Canonical
29 November 2021

Canonical Achieves AWS Graviton Ready Designation

Cloud and server Article

29 November 2021: Canonical, Publisher of Ubuntu, announced today that it has achieved the AWS Graviton Ready designation, part of the Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) Service Ready Program. This designation recognizes that Canonical + Ubuntu Server and Anbox Cloud Appliance has demonstrated successful integration with AWS Graviton Service ...


Canonical
9 November 2021

Canonical Transforms Linux on Mac

Canonical announcements Canonical News

Developers can now launch Linux instances on Apple M1 with Multipass 1.8 November 9th London, UK: On the heels of Apple’s announcement of a new line of game-changing M1 MacBooks, Canonical is bringing fast and easy Linux to the M1 platform. Multipass, the quickest way to run Linux cross-platform, received an update last week allowing ...


Canonical
2 November 2021

Ubuntu optimised for Intel processors accelerates adoption of IoT innovations

Ubuntu Canonical News

2 November 2021: Canonical published the first Ubuntu images optimised for the next generation of Intel IoT platforms, which address the unique requirements of the intelligent edge across multiple industry verticals.  Both companies are dedicated to enabling on Ubuntu the Intel IoT platforms’ specific features such as real-time performanc ...


Canonical
1 November 2021

Ubuntu Pro-based Microsoft SQL Server Instances available for Azure

Ubuntu Article

1st November 2021: Today, Canonical announced support with Microsoft for Microsoft SQL Server with Ubuntu Pro on Microsoft Azure. Canonical has worked with Microsoft to bring a highly performant and fully supported solution for SQL Server to market, based around the Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS operating system. Customers on Microsoft Azure can l ...


Canonical
14 October 2021

Ubuntu 21.10 has landed

Ubuntu Article

14 October 2021: Today, Canonical released Ubuntu 21.10 – the most productive environment for cloud-native developers and AI/ML innovators across the desktop, devices and cloud. “As open source becomes the new default, we aim to bring Ubuntu to all the corners of the enterprise and all the places developers want to innovate,” said Mark Sh ...


Canonical
11 October 2021

Canonical Presence at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA: Keynote by Founder/CEO Mark Shuttleworth, Announcement of Ubuntu 21.10 Beta

Canonical announcements Article

Canonical, the makers of Ubuntu, will have a major presence at this year’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship conference brings together adopters and technologists from leading open-source and cloud-native communities. It takes place Oct. 11-15 in Los Angeles and with a virtual option. Ubuntu is ...


Canonical
7 October 2021

Why your snap’s name, description, summary may have been changed, and what we’re doing about it

Ubuntu Article

As you may be aware, last month, a few users reported seeing some of their snaps’ metadata (description, name, summary) being overwritten by what seemed to be old information. On closer inspection, this affected snaps for which the authors had modified the metadata via the Web publisher interface, and the metadata had reverted to the ...