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A journey of a thousand smiles: Questing Quokka
By Aaron Prisk, 18 August 2025
Embarking on a quest can be serious business – whether you’re going off on a family holiday or traveling the hills of Britain in search of the holy grail, our...
Source to production: Spring Boot containers made easy
By Massimiliano Gori, 2 July 2025
This blog is contributed by Pushkar Kulkarni, a Software Engineer at Canonical. Building on the rise in popularity of Spring Boot and the 12 factor paradigm,...
Spring support available on Ubuntu
By Massimiliano Gori, 2 July 2025
This blog is contributed by Vladimir Petko, a Software Engineer at Canonical. The release of Plucky Puffin earlier this year introduced the availability of...
Chiseled Ubuntu containers for OpenJRE 8, 17 and 21
By Canonical, 1 July 2025
Today we are announcing chiseled containers for OpenJRE 8, 17 and 21 (Open Java Runtime Environment), coming from the OpenJDK project. These images are highly...
Introducing Canonical builds of OpenJDK
By Canonical, 1 July 2025
Java has long been the most popular language for software development in large enterprises, with 90% of Fortune 500 companies using it for backend...
New 50 TOPS DC-ROMA RISC-V AI PC ships with Ubuntu Desktop 24.04 LTS pre-installed
By Canonical, 9 May 2025
Canonical is excited to announce the launch of DeepComputing’s new 50 TOPS DC-ROMA RISC-V AI PC and AI PC Mini with Ubuntu Desktop 24.04 LTS pre-installed....
Canonical announces first Ubuntu Desktop image for Qualcomm Dragonwing™ Platform with Ubuntu 24.04
By Canonical, 30 April 2025
This public beta enables the full Ubuntu Desktop experience on the Qualcomm Dragonwing™ QCS6490 and QCS5430 processors and complements existing Ubuntu Server...
Among the waves: Plucky Puffin
By Aaron Prisk, 12 March 2025
Not to be confused with the titular Linux mascot and seabird cousin, the penguin, puffins are another distinctively colorful and whimsical nautical avian....
Experiment Tracking with MLFlow in Canonical’s Data Science Stack
By Stefano Fioravanzo, 3 March 2025
Welcome back, data scientists! In my previous post, we explored how easy it is to set up a machine learning environment with Canonical’s Data Science Stack...
Ubuntu available in Microsoft’s new WSL distribution format
By Jean-Baptiste Lallement, 5 February 2025
New format in Windows Subsystem for Linux makes adoption easier in enterprise environments by enabling image customization and deployments at scale
Bringing multiple windows to Flutter desktop apps
By Robert Ancell, 22 January 2025
Over the past 5 years, Canonical has been contributing to Flutter, including building out Linux support for Flutter applications, publishing libraries to help...