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This year we celebrate a decade of Ubuntu Server support on the s390x architecture: marking a long-standing collaboration between Canonical and IBM that began at LinuxCon 2015. The first release happened on April 21, 2016, bringing Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) to IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE platforms. A first for Ubuntu on IBM That […]

12 Jun 2026 6:13pm GMT

Legacy infrastructure was not designed for the requirements of the AI era. While large-scale model training remains centralized in data centers, test-time inference is rapidly shifting to the edge to reduce latency and bandwidth consumption. This shift creates a new frontier for enterprise AI, but deploying at the edge introduces significant manual complexity, interoperability issues, […]

11 Jun 2026 7:25pm GMT

You'll be able to customise the look of LibreOffice's Tabbed UI in the free office suite's next major release, which his due out in August 2026. LibreOffice 26.8's Tabbed UI (also known as the Notebookbar and modelled after the Ribbon in Microsoft Office) can show a colourful background when application theming is enabled under Tools > Options > Appearance. A blue shade is used by default but you can pick or set any colour you like. In the 'Customisations' section, first selected the Writer, Calc, Impress or Data Notebookbar value, then use the dropdown to chance the colour. Click apply […]

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11 Jun 2026 6:48pm GMT

Achieving vendor neutrality in telco clouds requires an infrastructure layer that respects open standards, without wrapping them in rigid platform layers. By combining upstream alignment with up to 15 years of support longevity, Canonical's approach to Sylva is built around a requirement that matters deeply to telcos: follow upstream cloud-native innovation when developing and evolving platforms, then rely on long-term support to keep production environments stable, trusted, and operationally predictable.

11 Jun 2026 10:34am GMT

Microsoft has released Coreutils for Windows, allowing a stack of familiar "Linux-like" command-line utilities to run natively on Windows. The project is based on uutils, the Rust-based reimplementation of GNU coreutils that Ubuntu (mostly) has adopted in recent releases. Microsoft's package bundles uutils' coreutils and findutils as well as a GNU-compatible grep in a single binary. It offers tools like cat, cp, ls, mv and uptime. Commands that use POSIX-only features are excluded, meaning chmod, chown, kill and others aren't included. What's notable - *nix tools working their way into the Windows ecosystem is notable - is that this isn't […]

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10 Jun 2026 4:21pm GMT

Mozilla has added support for Google's Play Integrity API, known for blocking users of custom ROMs from accessing banking apps, to Firefox for Android. Per a resolved issue in Mozilla's public tracker, a new lib-integrity-googleplay library was added to Firefox's Android codebase. It requests a Play Integrity token which is then passed to Mozilla's MLPA (Machine Learning Proxy) server. The token is used to access Firefox's server-side AI tools, like Smart Window, for rate-limiting purposes, ensuring only unmodified, Play-installed copies of Firefox on Google-certified devices use Mozilla's compute infra. Per documentation for the API, developers can: "…call the Integrity API […] to […]

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09 Jun 2026 8:55pm GMT

Previous articles walked through RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) as a programming model and InfiniBand as the fabric that was built around it. Both led to the same conclusion, even if it was never stated outright: moving data, not compute, becomes the bottleneck once systems scale. So what happens when you want RDMA, but you're […]

09 Jun 2026 3:05pm GMT

Euro-Office launches its stable 1.0 release on June 9, billed as a 'truly open' sovereign alternative to Microsoft Office - a claim riling The Document Foundation, makers of LibreOffice. In an open letter published today, TDF's Italo Vignoli takes issue with the upstart productivity suite's pitch. He disputes Euro-Office's marketing, which he says positions it as the first open-source office suite developed in Europe. It's historically inaccurate as OpenOffice.org got there in 2001, followed by LibreOffice from 2010. But he calls out another issue. The European Union is making a big push for digital sovereignty, cutting down on how much […]

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08 Jun 2026 3:02pm GMT

Proton has confirmed it is working on a Proton Drive client for Linux desktops. The announcement slipped out as part of a broader platform update. Proton has rebuilt Drive around a new shared SDK, with a single codebase powering its official apps on Windows, macOS, iOS, Android and web (rather than separate implementations as before). It's this unified approach that makes it easier for the Swiss-based company to add new features and integrations across all its official apps - and make an official client for Linux, which is being build on the SDK "from the ground up", they say. Not […]

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07 Jun 2026 10:04pm GMT

A new version of HandBrake, the open-source and cross-platform media conversion tool, is available to download. HandBrake 1.11.2 is a maintenance update in the current 1.11.x stable release, which was released in March 2026 and added DNxHR and ProRes encoder support, and an AMD VCN AV1 10-bit encoder compatible with the company's 9000 series GPUs and newer. This update is focused on fixes and finesse. A pair of bugs affecting 2-pass operations are resolved: a crash during 2-pass lossless x265 encodes, and a memory leak that occurred during 2-pass MPEG-4, MPEG-2, VP9 and FFV1 encodes. On Linux, HandBrake adds WebM […]

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07 Jun 2026 9:01pm GMT

Reliving the glory days of the GNOME 2 desktop is but a browser tab away - well, kinda. The personal website of Benny Powers, a software developer at Red Hat, is not a traditional vertical column of text. Nor is it a slop-soup of purple gradients, rounded glassy cards and monospaced datapoints (a 'vibe-coded' aesthetic everywhere right now). No, it's an interactive GNOME 2 'desktop'. He built it after digesting an essay on how websites used to be weird and playful and unique. Looking at his own site, he decided it wasn't nearly wacky enough, so restyled it to resemble […]

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07 Jun 2026 2:18pm GMT

Dynamic Music Pill, the blingy GNOME Shell extension that adds now playing track info, media controls and even real-time lyrics to your desktop, has gained some new options. "Like what?", you ask… If you don't want to see the name of the artists in the panel pill, you no longer have to: a 'show artist' toggle lets you hide it. The extension already has an option to dynamically hide artist labels if there's not enough room to display it alongside the title. On that topic, when long artist names and track titles combine, the pill will scroll the labels from […]

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05 Jun 2026 12:32pm GMT

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 infrastructure teams alike. With the tremendous cost of GPU clusters, extracting as much value as possible from the expense is critical. But in the […]

05 Jun 2026 10:44am GMT

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 releases, highlighting the features and tools available to you. In this blog, Asa Mirzaieva, engineer from the Silicon Alliances team, will show you how to deploy optimised AI models on […]

04 Jun 2026 12:36pm GMT

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. An initial reaction to hearing this is often to worry about software portability and compatibility, since if every RISC-V CPU offers a slightly different set of instructions, software won't be portable. […]

03 Jun 2026 4:00pm GMT

Ever wished you could talk in to a text field rather than type? Ubuntu 26.10 hears you - quite literally. Canonical's VP of Engineer Jon Seager, at the Ubuntu Summit, said the distro will soon lets users "press a button and talk into any field that you could previously type in". A small, on-device AI language parsing model like Whisper will power the feature. It's part of a wider push to integrate AI features in Ubuntu this year, with founder Mark Shuttleworth aiming to position Ubuntu as the 'OS for agentic AI'. AI features in Ubuntu will be shipped as […]

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03 Jun 2026 2:30pm GMT

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.

03 Jun 2026 11:03am GMT

Canonical has bumped its Steam Snap for ARM64 to the stable channel. First announced in January, the snap has been tested across ARM64 hardware including the NVIDIA DGX Spark, Radxa Orion O6 and Lenovo ThinkPad X13s, with Canonical now reporting 'solid performance' across many popular games. Valve doesn't provide a native ARM Linux client (edit: they began quietly publishing Linux ARM builds in April, but these aren't linked to on the main website). Canonical's snap version of Steam uses the Intel/AMD Steam binary with the FEX emulator. This stable release of the Steam Snap for ARM exposes FEX's configuration options to […]

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02 Jun 2026 8:15pm GMT

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 day one, offering seamless deployment, long-term security maintenance, and Kernel Livepatch without requiring engineering or platform changes

02 Jun 2026 6:58pm GMT

When distributed workloads stall because nodes cannot exchange small messages quickly and consistently, the network is the limiting factor. How do you solve that problem? InfiniBand offers one solution. InfiniBand is an interconnect, meaning the end-to-end communication system that links compute, storage, and accelerator nodes. It is implemented as a purpose-built network fabric, the switching […]

02 Jun 2026 12:03pm GMT

El Poblador is a fully playable Settlers of Catan clone that runs entirely in your terminal. Written in Go by developer vicho, El Poblador is a compete rendition of the iconic competitive board game, which is all about resources, trading, building settlements and blocking your opponents. All of Catan's core mechanics are accounted for, albeit free of the tactile joy of handling and placing tiny wooden blocks in the real game. It's a game designed for 3-4 players, so you'll want to huddle around a laptop or on a PC to play it. You use arrow keys to navigate the […]

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01 Jun 2026 11:09pm GMT

You'll have to sift through fewer vibe-coded apps on Flathub in future, as the store has announced a policy change on software made using AI tools. Flathub, the de-facto place to find and install Flatpak applications, is banning the use of "AI" coded applications and automated submissions going forward. It's not a blanket ban - mature projects with AI code are allowed A change to the store's policy note says "applications containing AI-generated or AI-assisted code, documentation, or other content are not allowed". A carve out will allow "mature, well-maintained projects" to include AI generated code and use AI tools […]

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01 Jun 2026 5:08pm GMT

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 evidence and the right question.

01 Jun 2026 1:56pm GMT

By packaging OpenShell as a snap, Canonical is enabling enterprises to confidently run next-generation agentic workflows across local devices, hybrid environments, and private clouds.

01 Jun 2026 5:30am GMT

May 2026 delivered a sizeable set of Linux software updates, including the set I've rounded up for your reading pleasure in this post. The month also saw a buffet of big browser updates, including Firefox 151 with new-look new tab page, Vivaldi 8.0 with a new-look generally and a new public beta of Kagi's Orion. Elsewhere, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS support was added to VMware Workstation (and Fusion for macOS), while open-source system cleaner BleachBit debuted a TUI for interactive command-line based spring cleaning. Below, I run through a crop of other Linux app releases that landed in May and caught my eye. […]

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31 May 2026 10:46pm GMT

Canonical has released the first monthly snapshot of Ubuntu 26.10 'Stonking Stingray'. This is the first of 4 planned testing builds in the lead up to the final, stable release of Ubuntu 26.10 on 15 October, 2026. Utkarsh Gupta announced the release on the Ubuntu developer mailing list, noting that a couple of images - including the ubiquitous Intel/AMD64 build most of us use - are missing from the first snapshot. Those will return in time for Snapshot 2. Ubuntu monthly snapshots are not alpha builds. They exist as a way for Ubuntu's engineers to fine-tune new, automated build processes. […]

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30 May 2026 12:47am GMT

Google confirmed at Google I/O 2026 that Canonical is the new lead maintainer and 'strategic steward' of Flutter desktop for Windows, macOS and Linux. The announcement of an expanded partnership with Canonical came during the 'What's new in Flutter' presentation at Google I/O 2026, where Kate Lovett, Engineer Manager on the Flutter Framework team at Google, touched on their existing work: "[The Flutter] desktop experience has reached a new level of maturity this year, driven by our incredible engineering partnership with Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu". She later confirmed that Canonical's 'deep technical expertise' will now oversee maintenance of Flutter […]

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29 May 2026 2:58pm GMT

Canonical has released Workshop, a new open-source tool to create reproducible development environments with a single command. Using YAML files, the same development setup can be reproduced across different hardware and devices, reducing dependency headaches and configuration drift. Environments in Workshop are built from SDKs (packages that install languages, frameworks and tools). Most of these come from the SDK Store, which supports versioned channels similar to the Snap Store so that projects can define specific SDK versions to use. Canonical offers SDKs for Ollama, OpenCode, NVIDIA CUDA and AMD ROCm at launch, but users can create and define project-specific SDKs […]

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27 May 2026 1:52pm GMT