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Orange Pi Unveils AI Station with Ascend 310 and 176 TOPS Compute

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Emoji Selector - An Intro to Kubuntu Default Emoji Picker Application

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VLC 3.0.23 Media Player Improves Dark Palette in the Qt GUI, Codec Information

VLC 3.0.23 is a small update coming a month after VLC 3.0.22, introducing support for exposing additional audio codec information, especially for FLAC 24-bit, improvements to the dark palette in the Qt interface, and compatibility for taglib 2.0, Qt 6, FFmpeg 8, mingw-w64 v13, and newer versions of libplacebo and pupnp.

Arch Linux Installer Archinstall 3.0.15 Adds Support for the rEFInd Boot Manager

Highlights of the Archinstall 3.0.15 release include support for rEFInd boot manager, CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System) installation support, stable support for the COSMIC desktop environment, a timer to post install screen, and support for power-profiles-daemon/tuned as a power management daemon.

Shotcut 25.12 Adds NVIDIA NVENC Encoder Support to Screen Recording on Linux/X11

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GNU Wget 2.2.1 Released with New Options, Improvements, and Bug Fixes

Highlights of the GNU Wget 2.2.1 release include a new --show-progress argument to improve backwards compatibility to wget, the ability to prevent file truncation with the --no-clobber argument, and support for using the local system timestamp when requested via the --no-use-server-timestamps argument.

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What exactly is Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu?

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Jan 01, 2026

Quoting: What exactly is Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu? —

A private company based in the UK, Canonical Ltd. develops software, often free and open source (FOSS), while marketing it with paid professional support to enterprises. That's one of the ways a company that gives away its software makes money: by supporting companies that can't rely on the web searches the rest of us use to keep our Linux operating systems running.

Canonical has existed since 2004 when it was formed by entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth as what you might call the business end of Ubuntu Linux. Any profit Canonical makes, in theory, can get funneled into the further development of Ubuntu and the surrounding ecosystem of free software.

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