Canonical/Ubuntu Announcements
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Reaching for the stars, creating the Ubuntu Summit 2023 Logo
We’re super happy and excited to announce the new logo for this year’s Ubuntu Summit:
The Ubuntu Summit this year is held in Riga, Latvia, November 3-5 2023. This event is focused on the Linux and open-source ecosystem. It is a great opportunity for the broad and diverse open-source community to meet and showcase what the future of open source looks like.
The concept behind the logo was to have a design which reflected the different cities we would have the Summit in. I found the freedom monument in RIGA, this very nicely matched one of our core values of Freedom, it also had 3 stars which matched our Circle of Friends 3 heads. The next task was to arrange the stars and the heads so they mirrored each other. Let’s hope the next city is as visually kind to us!
“The granite and copper monument in the center of Riga symbolizes Latvian statehood, national unity, independence and freedom. The monument was funded entirely by donations from residents and constructed as a memorial to those who fell in Latvia’s struggle for independence.”
“I was in another meeting at the time,” Graham said, “but I wanted to see whether a cropped version of the monument’s hands would work. So I fired up GIMP, dropped the previous logo and a statue image into background layers, and started sketching. I don’t think anyone in the meeting noticed…”
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Optimised Real-time Ubuntu is now generally available on Intel SoCs
Canonical delivers Real-time Ubuntu on Intel Core processors with TSN and Intel TCC support. London, 26 July 2023: Canonical today announced the availability of Real-time Ubuntu optimised on Intel Core processors.
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Canonical launches Real-time Ubuntu on Intel Core processors
Canonical Ltd. and Intel Corp. today announced a technical collaboration focused on a new, enterprise-focused release of Ubuntu that launched earlier this year. The release is known as Real-time Ubuntu.