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13 posts from January 2025
How to utilize CPU offloads to increase storage efficiency
By Philip Williams, 27 January 2025
Canonical Ceph with IntelⓇ Quick Assist Technology (QAT) When storing large amounts of data, the cost ($) to store each gigabyte (GB) is the typical measure...
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...
Ubuntu Summit 2024 Reflections
By ilvipero, 21 January 2025
As we move into 2025, we wanted to reflect on the crowning event of the year: the Ubuntu Summit. Just over two months ago, we celebrated Ubuntu’s 20th...
A comprehensive guide to NIS2 Compliance: Part 3 – Setting the roadmap and demonstrating NIS2 compliance.
By João Hellmeister, 20 January 2025
In this third and final part of the series, I’ll provide some tips on how to set up your roadmap and effectively demonstrate compliance without overburdening...
An Introduction to Open Source Licensing for complete beginners
By piperdeck, 20 January 2025
Open source is one of the most exciting, but often misunderstood, innovations of our modern world. I still remember the first time I installed linux on my...
Bringing 12-year LTS to 32-bit Arm processors as CRA comes into force
By Gabriel Aguiar Noury, 20 January 2025
With the release of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) and Ubuntu Core 24, Canonical introduced a 12-year Long Term Support commitment for 32-bit Arm®...
A comprehensive guide to NIS2 Compliance: Part 2 – Understanding NIS2 requirements
By João Hellmeister, 17 January 2025
In my previous blog, we ran through what NIS2 is and who it applies to. In this second part of the series, I’ll break down the main requirements you’ll find...
A comprehensive guide to NIS2 Compliance: Part 1 – Understanding NIS2 and its scope
By João Hellmeister, 15 January 2025
The EU NIS2 directive, which calls for strengthening cybersecurity across the European Union, is now active in all member states. Join me for this 3-part blog...
Rsync remote code execution and related vulnerability fixes available
By eslerm, 14 January 2025
Canonical’s security team has released updates of the rsync packages for all supported Ubuntu releases. The updates remediate CVE-2024-12084, CVE-2024-12085,...
Your data applications, contained and maintained
By Freyja Cooper, 14 January 2025
Introducing trusted open source database containers It’s time to stop proclaiming that “cloud native is the future”. Kubernetes has just celebrated its 10...
How to build your first model using DSS
By Stefano Fioravanzo, 14 January 2025
GenAI is transforming how we approach technology. This blog explores how you can use Canonical’s Data Science Stack (DSS) to set up your environment and dive...
How we used Flask and 12-factor charms to simplify Canonical.com development
By jdkandersson, 9 January 2025
Learn how Canonical is using Python Flask and the 12-factor charm framework to simplify the development of Canonical.com and Ubuntu.com