(previously Turtle Rover) ROS-based open-source rover with 5MPx camera and wireless streaming.

The latest interim release of Ubuntu introduces “devpacks” for popular frameworks like Spring, along with performance enhancements across a broad range of hardware. 17 April 2025 Today Canonical announced the release of Ubuntu 25.04, codenamed “Plucky Puffin,” available to download and install from ...

Hey everyone! I just confirmed with @sabdfl that the 25.10 release will be: Questing Quokka ! 🚀 😎

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 o...

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 int...

Understanding the AppArmor user namespace restriction feature Ubuntu 23.10 and 24.04 LTS introduced new AppArmor-based features to reduce the attack surface presented by unprivileged user namespaces in the Linux kernel. Unprivileged user namespaces are a feature in the Linux kernel that was introduc...

By Jean-Baptiste Lallement and Tobias Heider Introduction ARM64, the 64-bit architecture behind the chips in our smartphones, smart home devices or newer laptops, is rapidly reshaping the computing world. With tech giants like Apple switching to ARM-based silicon and Qualcomm rolling out laptop ch...

Ubuntu Foundations 25.04 - Plucky Puffin progress Hello there 👋 As we recently passed the midpoint of the Ubuntu 25.04 cycle, it’s a moment to reflect on the challenges, status and the progress since my last update last December. And a lot has happened since… First of all, I want to take a mom...

This is more or less a braindump of how dependency issues are being displayed and the evolution over the last couple of days; and not a high quality post. I’m happy to take feedback on understandability of the output 🙂 Explaining unsatisfiable dependencies is hard! the status quo is poor Apt did ...

As you may have read, triple buffering for GNOME desktop landed recently in Mutter 48. This was a multi-year effort to rethink how frames are scheduled so as to maintain an optimal frame rate under different conditions. But there are many caveats and tasks yet to be done. At this stage anyone who k...

A New chapter for Ubuntu Desktop Hello Ubuntu community, I’m Jean-Baptiste, and I’m excited to announce that I’ve recently been appointed as the Director of Engineering for Ubuntu Desktop. While this role is new to me, I’ve been deeply involved in the open source and Ubuntu ecosystem for many years...

In the last week of January 2025, I was appointed VP Engineering for Ubuntu at Canonical, meaning I’ll oversee the Ubuntu Foundations, Server and Desktop teams going forward. This post outlines my vision for that role, and how I hope to evolve the distribution, the engineering practices behind it, a...