Ubuntu

Canonical CEO says no to IPO in current volatile market

Interview 'We should be a public company,' Shuttleworth tells The Reg, just not 'with our trousers around our ankles'

OSes30 Oct 2025 | 40

Ubuntu Unity hanging by a thread as wunderkind maintainer gets busy with life

Team begs for help as teenage dev who revived Canonical’s old Unity desktop prioritizes studies

OSes29 Oct 2025 | 39

Bolt Graphics unveils Zeus GPU built on RISC-V and path tracing tech

Ubuntu Summit Onboard cores use a Linux stack based on Ubuntu

Systems29 Oct 2025 | 9

This is Doom, running headless, on Ubuntu Arm… on a satellite

Ubuntu Summit Ólafur Waage has an unusual take on "will it run Doom?"

Offbeat28 Oct 2025 | 17

Xubuntu downloads section injection threatens users with crypto infection

Attempted exploit was a feeble effort to target Windows users

Cybersecurity Month20 Oct 2025 | 2

Ubuntu 25.10 lands: Rustier and Wayland-ier, but Flatpak is broken

Canonical's Questing Quokka waddles in at 5.7 GB with AppArmor woes

OSes14 Oct 2025 | 32

Pop! System76's 24.04 beta is here – complete with a beta of polarizing COSMIC

Twice the betas and twice the crashes means twice the fun, right?

OSes30 Sep 2025 | 12

Zorin OS 18 beta makes Linux look like anything but Linux

Windows, macOS, Cinnamon, even iPadOS – all just a layout switch away

OSes24 Sep 2025 | 67

You can now test drive Fedora 43 and Ubuntu 25.10

Spooky season is nearly here. Want to be scared? There are fresh betas to try

OSes22 Sep 2025 | 11

'Questing Quokka' enters UI freeze as Ubuntu 25.10 nears release

Rust coreutils, TPM encryption, and GNOME 49 line up for October debut

OSes11 Sep 2025 | 10

Ubuntu users left waiting after Canonical's servers take weekend off

Package queues jammed until Monday despite brief downtime

OSes08 Sep 2025 | 27

Ubuntu 24.04.3: Noble Numbat point release slips out quietly

Bugs in the current LTS are getting squished

OSes08 Aug 2025 | 15

Canonical dusts off TPM encryption for Ubuntu 25.10

Passwordless disk locking is coming, a couple of years later than hoped

OSes31 Jul 2025 | 63

Canonical adds extra shots to Ubuntu Java

Juices the tooling and support for developers and enterprise customers

Software03 Jul 2025 | 4

Ubuntu 25.10 and Fedora 43 to drop X11 in GNOME editions

Distros align with GNOME 49's move to make Wayland the only supported session

OSes12 Jun 2025 | 72

What would a Microsoft engineer do to Ubuntu? AnduinOS is the answer

It's not radical, but it is slim and pretty – usually a winning combination

OSes23 May 2025 | 78

Fedora 42 has the Answer, but Ubuntu's Plucky Puffin isn't far behind

Watch your partitions – GPT and dual-boot don't always mix

OSes24 Apr 2025 | 13

Ubuntu 25.04 beta takes flight – but this Plucky Puffin is still molting

'Pudgy' might be more apt given the download size

OSes04 Apr 2025 | 27

Ubuntu 25.10 plans to swap GNU coreutils for Rust

It's easier to replace bits of userland than the kernel

OSes19 Mar 2025 | 107

Ubuntu upgrade had our old Nvidia GPU begging for a downgrade

If you need legacy drivers, you might want to keep your older OS version – possibly indefinitely

Personal Tech29 Jan 2025 | 44

Wubuntu: The lovechild of Windows and Linux nobody asked for

A third-party Kubuntu remix with a severe identity crisis

OSes05 Dec 2024 | 85

'Alarming' security bugs lay low in Linux's needrestart utility for 10 years

Update now: Qualys says flaws give root to local users, 'easily exploitable', default in Ubuntu Server

Research21 Nov 2024 | 15

A sit-down with Ubuntu founder Mark 'SABDFL' Shuttleworth

Ubuntu Summit 2024 Talking to the distro's self-appointed benevolent dictator for life about 20 years of Ubuntu

OSes11 Nov 2024 | 36

Why we're still waiting for Canonical's immutable Ubuntu Core Desktop

Ubuntu Summit 'First impressions matter' but a KDE flavor is in the making – and more publicly at that

OSes06 Nov 2024 | 19

Ubuntu turns 20: 'Oracular Oriole' shows this old bird's still got plenty of flight

The 24.10 release offers fun and freshness, but not immutability

Software11 Oct 2024 | 45

The early bird gets a touch of nostalgia as Ubuntu 24.10 hits beta

Fun retro tweaks, App Center facelift, and more as Oracular Oriole moves into view

OSes25 Sep 2024 | 6

Pop!_OS 24.04 and new COSMIC desktop reach alpha

It's quite a long way from ready – but it's clearly visible in the distance

OSes12 Sep 2024 | 43

Ubuntu Noble updates on hold while 20th anniversary teaser bears retro-styled gifts

22.04 to 24.04 upgrade temporarily withdrawn, but will be back

OSes09 Sep 2024 | 11

Brace for glitches and GRUB grumbles as Ubuntu 24.04.1 lands

Updated Now the Numbat has been neatened, you can replace your Jellyfish – if you dare

OSes03 Sep 2024 | 16

Chrome dumped support for Ubuntu 18.04 – but it'll be back

Complaints about lack of notice plus an inquiry from El Reg prompt U-turn by web giant

Applications22 Aug 2024 | 23

Ubuntu 24.04.1 will be late, but fresher kernels are coming

Bad news for impatient LTS users, balanced out by tweaked policy

OSes19 Aug 2024 | 10

Linux Mint 22 'Wilma' still the Bedrock choice for moving off Windows

Outsmarting Ubuntu's midlife crisis and dodging Flintstone-sized bugs

OSes29 Jul 2024 | 134

Experimental Mir-based tiling WM is winning acceptance outside Ubuntopia

Miracle-WM takes several more steps forward

OSes04 Jul 2024 | 18

Linux Mint 22 beta sprinkles Cinnamon desktop on Ubuntu

Taste at your own risk

OSes03 Jul 2024 | 9

World's first RISC-V laptop with Ubuntu preloaded touts AI smarts and octa-core chip

Might be more of a paper tiger given it runs at 2 GHz and has just 2 TOPS

Personal Tech13 Jun 2024 | 31

Real-time and Core editions of Ubuntu arrive

And it's time to upgrade any Mantic Minotaurs you have lying around

OSes07 Jun 2024 | 8

Ubuntu 24.04 upgrades available – to Mantic users

Enjoy some Noble Numbat novelty now – but excluding GNOME 46.1

OSes24 May 2024 | 15

Qualcomm warms bed for Linux on Arm PCs

One eye on Windows, the other winking at penguins

Personal Tech15 May 2024 | 8

With Asmi 24.04, Ubuntu's never looked so snappy (without the Snaps)

Distro formerly known as Zinc cuts the fat, rather than just replacing it

OSes15 May 2024 | 34

Experimental remix finally brings the former Unity 8 back to Ubuntu

Ubuntu Unity 24.04 arrives along with new little sibling, Ubuntu Lomiri

OSes09 May 2024 | 14

Xubuntu 24.04: A minimal install that does what it says on the tin

This nearly Snap-free Ubuntu remix may be about about to win friends and influence people

OSes30 Apr 2024 | 14

Qt Ubuntu 24.04 betas show that there's room to innovate

Hot on the heels of Ubuntu Noble beta come the betas of the Qt-based remixes, with some interesting differences

OSes19 Apr 2024 | 38

After delay due to xz, Ubuntu 24.04 'Noble Numbat' belatedly hits beta

Kernel 6.8, GNOME 46, and more apps in Snap packages

OSes15 Apr 2024 | 30

Canonical cracks down on crypto cons following Snap Store scam spree

In happier news, Ubuntu Pro extended support now goes up to 12 years

Security28 Mar 2024 | 18

Fresh version of Windows user-friendly Zorin OS arrives to tempt the Linux-wary

Adding extra shine to Ubuntu Jammy… with the lightweight edition to follow

OSes15 Mar 2024 | 109

Ubuntu, Kubuntu, openSUSE to get better installation

Fedora, though, won't – until at least the version after next

OSes22 Feb 2024 | 37

KDE 6 misses boat to make it into Kubuntu 24.04

'Noble Numbat' users will face a major post-install upgrade, which isn't ideal

OSes06 Feb 2024 | 14

Microsoft embraces its inner penguin with Linux-powered Windows AI Studio

Visual Studio Code extension preview has a bunch of limitations for now

AI + ML14 Dec 2023 | 6

Ubuntu Budgie switches its approach to Wayland

Exclusive Elementary OS going full speed ahead, but Parachutist Parakeet considers a new, post-Enlightenment glide path

OSes20 Nov 2023 | 50

Canonical intros Microcloud: Simple, free, on-prem Linux clustering

As Ubuntu approaches its 20th anniversary, some more of its pieces may be Snapping together

OSes16 Nov 2023 | 30

Ubuntu for Arm64 laptops (plus RISC kit)

Ubuntu Summit Did you know there's an Asahi flavored Ubuntu? And Debian, too

OSes13 Nov 2023 | 3

Canonical shows how to use Snaps without the Snap Store

Ubuntu Summit Despite what you may have heard, it's not as proprietary as the trolls think

OSes10 Nov 2023 | 73

Canonical reveals more details about Ubuntu Core Desktop

Ubuntu Summit This new entrant in the immutable space is not a replacement for ordinary Ubuntu

OSes08 Nov 2023 | 34

Wayland heading for default status as Mint devs mix it into Cinnamon 6 bun

Plus Linux Mint 22 to be based on Ubuntu 'Noble Numbat'

OSes27 Oct 2023 | 21

Ubuntu LTS kernels will get one decade of fixes … still

Upstream policy change for LTS kernels Ubuntu doesn't use

OSes26 Oct 2023 | 3

Ubuntu unleashes Mantic Minotaur with 23.10 build

The bull has escaped Minos' labyrinth, and El Reg follows the thread

Software14 Oct 2023 | 8