Archives
4707 posts
Beyond tokens per watt – using Ubuntu 26.04 LTS for AI
By Freyja Cooper, 5 June 2026
Tokens per watt (TpW) – the measure of useful AI work produced per watt of energy consumed – is the metric at top of mind for CEOs, heads of AI, and...
A look into Ubuntu Core 26: Deploying AI models on Renesas RZ/V series for production
By Gabriel Aguiar Noury, 4 June 2026
Welcome to this blog series which explores innovative uses of Ubuntu Core. Throughout this series, Canonical’s Engineers will show what you can build with our...
RISC-V profiles – why is RVA23 significant?
By Jon Taylor, 3 June 2026
Introduction One of the important offerings of the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) is the ability to customize and extend the base instruction set....
AI with AMD ROCm on Ubuntu: your questions answered
By Kevin Cazabon, 3 June 2026
AMD ROCm is now available in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. Learn what how to make the best of it, and find out what this will mean in the coming years for development in Ubuntu.
Ubuntu and Ubuntu Pro on Azure Cobalt 200 VMs
By Jehudi, 2 June 2026
Microsoft has announced the preview of Azure Cobalt 200, its second-generation custom Arm silicon. Learn how Ubuntu and Ubuntu Pro support these new VMs from...
What is InfiniBand?
By Benjamin Ryzman, 2 June 2026
When distributed workloads stall because nodes cannot exchange small messages quickly and consistently, the network is the limiting factor. How do you solve...
How Canonical Support solves hard Linux performance bugs – even in 12-year old code
By Lidia Luna Puerta, 1 June 2026
A 12-year-old bug in libnss-db caused getent enumeration to slow to a crawl – and showed how far expert support can go when a customer brings the right...
Securing AI agent workflows on Ubuntu with the new NVIDIA OpenShell snap
By Canonical, 1 June 2026
By packaging OpenShell as a snap, Canonical is enabling enterprises to confidently run next-generation agentic workflows across local devices, hybrid...
Canonical announces optimized Ubuntu images for TPU virtual machines by Google Cloud
By Hugo Huang, 28 May 2026
Canonical and Google Cloud announced the availability of certified Ubuntu images for Google’s Cloud TPU Virtual Machines.
VMware hypervisor deployment using MAAS
By David Beamonte, 28 May 2026
Most modern datacenters are inherently heterogeneous. VMware environments coexist with container platforms, databases, and other bare-metal workloads, often...
Migrating from Apache Spark 3 to Spark 4
By Rob Gibbon, 28 May 2026
The purpose of this guide is to highlight the key differences between Apache Spark 3 and Spark 4, and provide advice on how to plan a migration. Let’s get...
Introducing Workshop: launch sandboxed development environments on Ubuntu with a single command
By Canonical, 27 May 2026
Developers now benefit from consistency and repeatability for cutting-edge workflows, including agentic AI. Today, Canonical announced the release of...
Run agentic workloads on Arm and Ubuntu
By Youssef Eltoukhy, 26 May 2026
In the lead-up to Ubuntu Summit 26.04, Canonical and Arm are collaborating to certify the new Arm AGI CPU on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon). Learn what...
Developing web apps with local LLM inference
By Abdelrahman Hosny, 21 May 2026
I’ve yet to meet a developer that enjoys working with metered AI APIs. The need to pay for every API call in development works in direct opposition to the...
PinTheft Linux kernel vulnerability mitigation
By seth-arnold, 21 May 2026
A local privilege escalation (LPE) security vulnerability in the Linux kernel, codename “PinTheft,” was publicly disclosed on May 19, 2026. The vulnerability...
Canonical announces fully Managed Kubeflow AI operations platform on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace
By Massimiliano Gori, 21 May 2026
Canonical has announced the general availability of Managed Kubeflow on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. This fully managed MLOps platform allows enterprise...