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Firefox snap performance Part 3: significant startup improvements

In Part 3 of our Firefox snap performance series we cover two significant performance improvements that have just landed for all users.

Install Gazebo for ROS 2 in under a minute

Recently, we announced the beta release of the Gazebo snap to help you install Gazebo for ROS 2. The gazebo snap is easy to install on dozens of Linux...

Bring home the disco with these Raspberry Pi HAT tutorials (Part 1)

Ubuntu is lighting up the Raspberry Pi this week with the first of a two-part collection of Unicorn HAT tutorials from our resident Pi developers!

Behind open DORS – Conference organizers share their thoughts on Canonical, Ubuntu, snaps, and open-source

A Linux conference almost as old as Linux itself. In mid-May, DORS/CLUC hosted its 29th event at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing in...

The State of Robotics – May & June 2022

In May, robotics felt the waves of the Hawksbill and Jellyfish. Last month brought us the first LTS for ROS 2, Humble Hawksbill. As part of the ROS community,...

Design and Web team summary – 17 June 2022

The Web and design team at Canonical run two-week iterations building and maintaining all of the Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some...

Star Developers are here!

We are happy to announce that the newest community feature of the Snap Store is here: Star Developers! Background  In the Snap Store, we have a fantastic...

New Active Directory Integration features in Ubuntu 22.04 (part 4) – Scripts execution

Linux Active Directory (AD) integration is historically one of the most requested functionalities by our corporate users, and with Ubuntu Desktop 22.04, we...


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The software operator design pattern: disadvantages – part 5

The software operator is a design pattern – it is a proven design that has been applied in many situations and implemented by several frameworks. Its...

The software operator design pattern: advantages – part 4

The software operator is a design pattern. Its design is based on successful applications where this approach was found useful. In other words, it’s a proven...

Multipass documentation: proudly a work in progress

In February of this year the Multipass team took on a challenge: completely overhauling our documentation. Canonical has put a renewed emphasis on...

What’s new in Charmed Ceph with Ceph Quincy on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS?

Along with the usual bug fixing, maintenance, and upstream version enablement work that goes into every Charmed Ceph release, we also worked on a number of...

What’s new in Security for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS?

Canonical Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is the latest long term support release of Ubuntu, one of the world’s most popular Linux distributions. As a Long Term Support...

The new classic confinement in snaps – Even the classics need a change

As part of their fundamental, security-driven design, snaps are meant to run isolated from the underlying system. In most cases, the idea works well, and...

Weave Cybersecurity into your product design

How important security is for your application and digital services? “Very important”, this is the answer we get the most often from Product Managers and...

New Active Directory Integration features in Ubuntu 22.04 (part 3) – Privilege Management

Linux Active Directory (AD) integration is historically one of the most requested functionalities by our corporate users, and with Ubuntu Desktop 22.04, we...


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