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What is InfiniBand?
By Benjamin Ryzman, 2 June 2026
When distributed workloads stall because nodes cannot exchange small messages quickly and consistently, the network is the limiting factor. How do you solve...
How Canonical Support solves hard Linux performance bugs – even in 12-year old code
By Lidia Luna Puerta, 1 June 2026
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...
Securing AI agent workflows on Ubuntu with the new NVIDIA OpenShell snap
By Canonical, 1 June 2026
By packaging OpenShell as a snap, Canonical is enabling enterprises to confidently run next-generation agentic workflows across local devices, hybrid...
Canonical announces optimized Ubuntu images for TPU virtual machines by Google Cloud
By Hugo Huang, 28 May 2026
Canonical and Google Cloud announced the availability of certified Ubuntu images for Google’s Cloud TPU Virtual Machines.
VMware hypervisor deployment using MAAS
By David Beamonte, 28 May 2026
Most modern datacenters are inherently heterogeneous. VMware environments coexist with container platforms, databases, and other bare-metal workloads, often...
Migrating from Apache Spark 3 to Spark 4
By Rob Gibbon, 28 May 2026
The purpose of this guide is to highlight the key differences between Apache Spark 3 and Spark 4, and provide advice on how to plan a migration. Let’s get...
Introducing Workshop: launch sandboxed development environments on Ubuntu with a single command
By Canonical, 27 May 2026
Developers now benefit from consistency and repeatability for cutting-edge workflows, including agentic AI. Today, Canonical announced the release of...
Run agentic workloads on Arm and Ubuntu
By Youssef Eltoukhy, 26 May 2026
In the lead-up to Ubuntu Summit 26.04, Canonical and Arm are collaborating to certify the new Arm AGI CPU on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon). Learn what...
Decoding design: How design and engineering thrive together in open source
By Miguel Divo, 22 May 2026
Open source thrives on engineering-driven processes. Fast feedback loops, terminal tools, Git workflows: they’re the lifeblood of how we build software in the...
Developing web apps with local LLM inference
By Abdelrahman Hosny, 21 May 2026
I’ve yet to meet a developer that enjoys working with metered AI APIs. The need to pay for every API call in development works in direct opposition to the...
PinTheft Linux kernel vulnerability mitigation
By Luci Stanescu, 21 May 2026
A local privilege escalation (LPE) security vulnerability in the Linux kernel, codename “PinTheft,” was publicly disclosed on May 19, 2026. The vulnerability...