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Ubuntu Summit The Register FOSS desk sat down with Canonical's vice-president for engineering, Jon Seager, during Ubuntu Summit earlier this month. This is a heavily condensed version of our ...

Ubuntu 25.10 now offers amd64v3 optimised packages. What does x86-64-v3 mean for your CPU, and will the modest performance improvements be noticeable?

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

A fresh Steam Beta is out for Desktop and Steam Deck / SteamOS which brings some important bug fixes, and one that was ...

ARC Raiders from Embark Studios has released today and even though it has anti-cheat, it still appears to run just fine on ...

With the Ubuntu distribution of Linux turning 21 years old this month, students' opinions vary on its relative merits.

At the Ubuntu Summit 25.10 at Canonical headquarters in London, Mark Shuttleworth, founder and CEO, and Jon Seager, VP of engineering for Ubuntu, explained their vision and plans for 26.04, Resolute ...

Ubuntu 25.10 no longer includes the Startup Applications tool, so learn how to autostart scripts and run custom commands at ...