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After 46 Years of Silence, Ubuntu Finally Lets You See What You’re Typing
For nearly half a century, every Unix and Linux user has shared the same experience: typing a password into the terminal and watching absolutely nothing happen on screen. No...
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Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Will Require Cloud Identity Logins via Authd by Default
Canonical is making a significant change to how Ubuntu handles authentication. Starting with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, codenamed "Plucky Puffin," the company plans to ship authd...
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Ubuntu 26.04 Takes Shape: Inside Canonical’s Aggressive Push Toward a Leaner, Faster Linux Distribution
Canonical's next long-term support release of Ubuntu is beginning to crystallize, and the early signals suggest a distribution that is being rebuilt with performance and modu...
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LXD 6.7 Hits the Wire: Canonical’s Container Manager Pushes Forward With OVN, Cluster Healing, and a Quiet Power Play in Virtualization
The latest release of LXD, Canonical's system container and virtual machine manager, arrived this month with a batch of features that may not make mainstream headlines but ca...
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Ubuntu 26.04 Hits Feature Freeze: What the Questing Quokka Release Means for Enterprise Linux and Desktop Users
Canonical's next long-term support release of Ubuntu, codenamed "Questing Quokka," has officially reached its feature freeze milestone, locking in the set of capabilities tha...
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The Zombie Domain Threat: How Bad Actors Are Compromising Ubuntu’s Snap Store Security
Correction: An earlier version of this article mistakenly attributed the analysis of Snap Store vulnerabilities and subsequent blog statements to Daniele Procida, currentl...
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Canonical’s RISC-V Flutter Push: Ubuntu’s Bold Bet on Open ISA Dominance
In a move signaling Canonical Ltd.'s deepening commitment to the RISC-V architecture, the Ubuntu maker has engineered Google's Flutter UI toolkit to run natively on RISC-V ha...
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Canonical’s Revenue Soars to $300M in 2024
In the ever-evolving landscape of open-source technology, Canonical, the company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, has reported a staggering financial milestone. Accor...
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Canonical Open-Sources Multipass for Ubuntu VM Management
In a significant move for the virtualization and developer communities, Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has announced that its lightweight virtual machine (VM) manager, Multi...
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Ubuntu 25.10 Adopts Wayland as Default Display Server
In a significant shift for the Linux ecosystem, Ubuntu 25.10, codenamed "Questing Quokka," is making a bold move by fully embracing Wayland as its default display server protocol,...
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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Support Ends: Time to Upgrade
As of May 31, 2025, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, codenamed Focal Fossa, has officially reached the end of its standard support period, marking a critical juncture for organizations and users...
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Ubuntu Proposes Splitting Linux-Firmware Package
The Linux ecosystem is no stranger to evolution, but a recent proposal within the Ubuntu community has sparked a significant discussion that could reshape how firmware is managed f...
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Ubuntu Summit 2025 Goes Hybrid for Global Access
The Ubuntu Summit, a cornerstone event for the open-source community, is undergoing a significant transformation in 2025, reflecting broader trends in tech gatherings and the evolv...
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Canonical Donating $120,000 to Open Source Devs
Canonical, the company behind the most popular Linux distro in the world, announced plans to donate $120,000 to open source developers....
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Ubuntu Rolling Out Rust-Based Memory-Safe Sudo
Canonical is making a major change to Ubuntu, starting with the upcoming Ubuntu 25.10, replacing GNU Coreutils with the Rust-based uutils....
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