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Canonical joins the Sylva project
By Serdar Vural, 5 December 2023
Canonical is proud to announce that we have joined the Sylva project of Linux Foundation Europe as a General Member. We aim to bring our open source...
Empowering Australian government innovation: a secure path to open source excellence
By Canonical, 5 September 2023
The Australian Federal Government is not alone in dealing with challenges like natural disasters, global pandemics and economic uncertainty. Like many...
The Evolution of the Smart Home: How it Started [Part 1]
By Nathan Hart, 24 March 2022
A brief history Smart home technology has long been the subject for futurists predicting robot butlers and the like. While we may not have “The Jetsons” style...
Announcing OpenJDK 11 packages in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
By Canonical, 19 April 2019
OpenJDK 11 is the default JRE/JDK for 18.04 LTS and is covered under LTS upstream security support. OpenJDK 11 will be the default package for the upcoming...
Clarification on IP Rights Policy
By Jane Silber, 15 July 2015
We are updating our Intellectual Property Rights Policy to clarify the relationship between this policy and the licences of the constituent works in Ubuntu. ...
Ubuntu Security Update on VENOM (CVE-2015-3456) [UPDATED]
By Robbie, 13 May 2015
A buffer overflow in the virtual floppy disk controller of QEMU has been discovered. An attacker could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash or execute...
Ten years of Ubuntu
By Jane Silber, 23 October 2014
Today marks 10 years of Ubuntu and the release of the 21st version. That is an incredible milestone and one which is worthy of reflection and celebration. I...
Ubuntu Security Update on Poodle (CVE-2014-3566) and SSLv3 Downgrade Attack
By Robbie, 16 October 2014
The following is an update on Ubuntu’s response to the latest Internet emergency security issue, POODLE (CVE-2014-3566), in combination with an SSLv3...
Supporting net neutrality and the Internet Slowdown
By Robin Winslow, 9 September 2014
On 10th September 2014, Canonical are joining in with Internet Slowdown day to support the fight for net neutrality. Along with Reddit, Tumblr, Boing Boing,...
“Sometimes the best man for the job isn’t.”
By Jane Silber, 14 July 2014
The social and business value of having a diverse workforce is well documented. Equally well documented is the relative lack of women in technology, and in...
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
By Mark Baker, 17 April 2014
Today is a big day for Ubuntu and a big day for cloud computing: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is released. Everyone involved with Ubuntu can’t help but be impressed and...
An insight into supporting OpenStack
By Mark Baker, 27 March 2014
It is pretty well known that most of the OpenStack clouds running in production today are based on Ubuntu. Companies like Comcast, NTT, Deutsche Telekom,...