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Canonical engineers are dropping details about the upcoming Ubuntu 24.10 release, including that it will default to Wayland for all users, including those...

Canonical Launches Ubuntu Pro for IoT Devices

Canonical is expanding its Ubuntu Pro service, bringing the extended security maintenance plan to IoT devices, in addition to desktop and servers....

Canonical Expands Support for Ubuntu LTS to 12 Years

Canonical has significantly expanded support for its Ubuntu LTS releases, offering 12 years of support starting with Ubuntu 14.04....

Why Canonical’s Snap-Based Immutable Ubuntu Is a Good Idea

Immutability and snaps are two of the most controversial elements in the Linux community, but Ubuntu may achieve a winning formula by...

Ubuntu 23.10’s App Store Will Block DEB Files When a Snap Is Available

Canonical continues to push forward with its adoption of snap, revealing .deb version of an app will not be available in Ubuntu's app store if a snap is av...

Ubuntu Flavors Drop OOTB Flatpak Support

Ubuntu has made yet another controversial decision, dropping out-of-the-box (OOTB) support for Flatpak apps....

Ubuntu’s Canonical Throws Its Weight Behind the Unity Desktop…Again

Canonical has announced Ubuntu Unity will once again be an official flavor of the venerable Linux distribution (distro)....

Nvidia Is Finally Open-Sourcing Its Linux GPU Kernel Drivers

Nvidia is — at long last — open-sourcing its GPU kernel drivers fo...

Canonical and Blender Partner to Provide Support Options

Blender has partnered with Canonical to provide enterprise-grade support to Blender users. Blender is...

Google Has Fixed 99.9% of Canonical Indexing Issues

Google has announced it has fixed 99.9% of the canonical issues impacting how websites were indexed....

Flutter Can Now Be Used to Create Ubuntu Linux Apps

Canonical and Google have partnered to add Linux as one of the target platforms for the Flutter framework....

Canonical Announces Anbox Cloud: ‘Scalable Android In The Cloud’

Canonical, the makers of the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, have announced the release of Anbox Cloud, a “scalable android in the cloud” platform, acc...

Ubuntu Touch Finally Has Hardware Partners

Last year, Canonical unveiled its plan to upend the mobile industry with...

Ubuntu Edge Doesn’t Reach $32 Million In Funding, Canonical Remains Optimistic

The Ubuntu Edge was a highly ambitious smartphone with an equally ambitious Indiego...

Ubuntu Developer Preview Coming To More Android Devices

Last week, Canonical released the Ubuntu Developer Preview for...