Topic: Canonical

Canonical’s Steam Snap is Causing Headaches for Valve

Canonical may be ramping up its efforts to improve the Ubuntu gaming experience — yasss — but it seems their Steam snap package is causing a few headaches for Valve. Timothée Besset, a software engineer […]

17 January 2024

Canonical’s Leading LXD Engineer Quits

Stéphane Graber has announced his resignation from Canonical after 12 years of working at the company, mostly on LXD. His announcement follows news last week that Canonical had taken the LXD project in-house after years […]

10 July 2023
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Canonical Take Control of LXD (But Say It Won’t Be Snap-Only)

Canonical has taken full control of the LXD project. A short statement posted on the Linux Containers website states: “The LXD project is no longer part of the LinuxContainers project but can now be found […]

5 July 2023
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Snapcraft Website Given a ‘More Modern Look’

Next time you stop by the Snapcraft website you’ll notice it has undergone a revamp. Canonical unveiled the changes today saying it “embarked on a project to redesign snapcraft.io and give it a more modern look”. This […]

30 June 2023
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Ubuntu Plans to Switch CUPS Printing Stack to Snap

Ubuntu 23.10 is aiming to ship the CUPS printing stack as a snap package. Canonical’s Till Kamppeter, who is also the project lead for the OpenPrinting Project, says he wants to “…switch Ubuntu 23.10, the […]

29 May 2023

Ubuntu 23.04 Now Supports This ‘Powerful’ RISC-V Computer

Ubuntu 23.04 is now officially available for StarFive’s VisionFive 2, a powerful RISC-V single-board computer. Canonical worked with StarFive’s engineering team to create an optimised version of the latest Ubuntu release for use on the […]

10 May 2023
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Canonical Bringing Livepatch Support to HWE Kernels

Ubuntu Pro subscribers will be able to apply reboot-free updates to more Linux kernels from July. As spotted by our friends at Neowin, Canonical announced Livepatch support for Hardware Enablement (HWE) kernels starting this summer. […]

15 April 2023

Canonical Announce Availability of Real-Time Ubuntu

Got a time-sensitive workload that would benefit from the reliability and security of Ubuntu? Well, you're in luck – Real-time Ubuntu is now available.

15 February 2023
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Ubuntu Pro is Now Available to Anyone Who Wants It

Canonical has made Ubuntu Pro generally available. Ubuntu Pro allows you to run an Ubuntu LTS release for 10 years with more critical security updates.

27 January 2023

The Future of ZFS on Ubuntu Desktop is Not Looking Good

Things were looking promising for ZFS on Ubuntu. In 2019 Ubuntu was the first major Linux distro to offer a ZFS install option. Sadly, things have changed.

6 January 2023
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Don’t Like Ubuntu’s Apt “News” Feature? You Can Turn it Off

It's easy to disable the apt awareness message that appears each time you run an apt update on Ubuntu 22.04 Why is it needed at all? We discuss inside.

29 December 2022
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Canonical’s Steam Snap Will Let You (Easily) Switch Mesa Stacks

The Steam snap app is levelling up its graphics prowess, as Canonical reveals plans to make different Mesa versions available for users to switch between.

25 October 2022