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Calling all open source contributors! 🔊

Canonical has launched the Starcraft Bounties Program, a new initiative inviting you to tackle significant technical challenges and shape the future of core development tools like Snapcraft, Charmcraft, Craft Parts, and the Craft CLI.

Ready to contribute and deepen your expertise in advanced open source projects?

Find more details here: https://ubuntu.com/blog/build-the-future-of-craft-announcing-starcraft-bounties

#OpenSource #DeveloperTools #SoftwareDevelopment #Canonical #Ubuntu #StarcraftBounties

Canonical Ubuntu 5d ago

Canonical is introducing Debcrafters, a new team dedicated to maintaining the health of the Ubuntu Archive. 🤝

Whether you're an experienced Debian Developer, a maintainer from another Linux distribution, or an engineer starting your open source journey, Debcrafters offers a unique chance to learn, grow, and make a meaningful impact on the world’s most widely deployed Linux.

Learn more about their mission and how they're supporting other distributions beyond Ubuntu: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/introducing-debcrafters/63674

Canonical Ubuntu Jun 27

Missed #UbuCon Europe @ OpenSouthCode 2025?

We’ve got you covered. Catch the highlights and relive the excitement!

From hands-on workshops to networking with community members, UbuCon was a blast. We also had a great time connecting with our old friends from Slimbook, DeepComputing, KDE, OpenSearch, and many more amazing projects.

📍 Málaga, Spain

Get all the details from Mauro Gaspari, Community Engineer at Canonical: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/event-report-ubucon-europe-opensouthcode-2025/63386

Event Report - UbuCon Europe @ OpenSouthCode 2025

This year the Ubuntu community is traveling around the world, spreading the word of the orange side of Linux. UbuCon Europe, as announced in this Discourse post, was co-located at OpenSouthCode 2025. Working with the passionate Spanish open source community was an inspiring experience and a beautiful story of passion and collaboration. If you are wondering what the secret southern recipe of UbuCon, you are in the right place. Let’s have a look! 👀 Breathtaking Málaga Málaga is an absolut...

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Canonical Ubuntu Jun 25

One of our goals was making Network Time Security (NTS) the default in Chrony, not just for Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin, but beyond.

We’ve now reached that milestone as part of the ongoing development of Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka.

#Ubuntu #Linux #OpenSource #Security #NTS

Canonical Ubuntu Jun 20

Leveling up for .NET developers on Ubuntu! 🚀

• Day-one security patches via our collaboration with Microsoft
• The improved .NET Snap for side-by-side installs
• Chiseled .NET Containers: ultra-small, OCI-compliant, and secure
• More robust developer documentation for .NET

Dive into these topics, and more: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/leveling-up-ubuntu-for-developers-net-edition/63162?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#Ubuntu #Linux #OpenSource #DotNet #Developer

Canonical Ubuntu Apr 14

Questing Quokka ₍ᐢ•ﻌ•ᐢ₎

Canonical Ubuntu Apr 7

Jon Seager Apr 7

I just posted my latest #Ubuntu #blog that describes my plans for the project's documentation - and how we'll use that to grow a more sustainable and engaged community.

Check it out on the Ubuntu Discourse! https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/58694

Revitalising Ubuntu Project Documentation

Introduction Back in February I wrote some thoughts on Ubuntu’s documentation and its role within the community. For a mostly-online software community, documentation is one of our most critical forms of communication. In the last two years there has been lots of focus on the technical aspects of our documentation (how-to guides, tutorials, etc.), but I’d like to focus more on what I’m calling the “Ubuntu Project Documentation” over the coming months. Documentation isn’t only about technical h...

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Canonical Ubuntu Mar 28

Jon Seager Mar 28

This week Michael Hudson-Doyle of the #Ubuntu Foundations team published a write-up of our experimentation with the `-O3` GCC flag by default in the distribution.

The tl;dr is that we don't yet believe that the change makes sense globally, but there are certainly come packages that would benefit from using the increased optimisation level.

See the post here: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/benchmarking-a-distribution-and-some-o3-results/58027

Benchmarking a distribution (and some \-O3 results)

In our previous Foundations update @mclemenceau shared an update on some of the experiments we conducted during the Plucky Puffin cycle, in particular about our decision to revert the change to the -O3 optimization level by default on amd64. As promised here is a few more details about what went into this project, methods used and challenges encountered. Results of -O3 experiment tl;dr Performance is slightly worse and packages are slightly bigger with -O3 by default and we will revert the chan...

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Canonical Ubuntu Mar 14

OpenSouthCode Mar 13

Great news! We're excited to announce that #UbuCon Europe will be held as part of #OpenSouthCode25 for the first time in #Málaga #Spain. Save the date! 20-21 June
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https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubucon-europe-opensouthcode-2025/57060

UbuCon Europe @ OpenSouthCode 2025

2025-06-20T07:00:00Z (UTC)→2025-06-21T15:00:00Z (UTC) What’s better than an UbuCon event? 🥁 🥁 🥁 More UbuCon events around the world! 🌍✨ Inspired by the fantastic work of UbuCon teams across North America, Asia, and Latin America, we are taking things to the next level—bringing UbuCon Europe back as a co-located event at OpenSouthCode 2025! Join us for an incredible summer journey into open source. 🌞 🌻 🌈 Imagine this: In...

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Canonical Ubuntu Mar 12

Gliding through the waves and soaring to new heights, behold Ubuntu 25.04's Plucky Puffin! 🌊

Watch as the daring seabird makes its debut:
https://ubuntu.com/blog/among-the-waves-plucky-puffin

#PluckyPuffin #Ubuntu

Among the waves: Plucky Puffin | Ubuntu

Not to be confused with the titular Linux mascot and seabird cousin, the penguin, puffins are another distinctively colorful and whimsical nautical avian. Over the centuries, these beaky birds have been given numerous nicknames and monikers like the “sea parrot” and the harlequinesque appearance of their facial feathers has earned them th […]

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