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Dell XPS 13 Plus Developer Edition now certified with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

July 21st 2022 – Canonical is excited to announce the new Dell XPS 13 Plus Developer Edition has been officially certified for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Starting from...

How to use ROS 2 shared memory in snaps

If you already tried to package ROS 2 Foxy applications into snaps, you might have encountered the following error regarding shared memory: This log is...

Raspberry Pi HAT tutorials part 2 – Blinkenlights and micro-Pong!

Welcome to part 2 of our Raspberry Pi Unicorn HAT tutorial series. In this post, we learn to build a handheld micro-Pong device and a system monitor.

Introducing Ubuntu for Google Cloud’s Arm-based T2A virtual machines

July 13th, 2022: Canonical and Google Cloud today announce an optimised Ubuntu image for the preview of Tau T2A virtual machines (VMs) on Compute Engine....

High-performance computing (HPC) cluster architecture [part 4]

This article describes what HPC clusters are, their various components and their particular purposes. It also covers the different types of HPC clusters.

Design and Web team summary – 1 July 2022

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

Event Data Recorders: Safety and software considerations

There has been a lot of talk about Event Data Recorders (EDR) in the automotive industry lately. Event Data Recorders are tamper-proof memory devices that...

UX Deep Dive: Classify interactions for a more intuitive user interface

We try hard to make our products as intuitive and familiar as possible, but there will always be “advanced” options and rarely-used features. So how do we...


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Installing Foxglove Studio is now easier than ever

Today, Foxglove announced the release of the Foxglove Studio snap. Foxglove Studio helps you experience the world as a robot does, providing a rich set of...

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...


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