Skip to main content
  1. Blog
  2. Article

Canonical
on 17 February 2014

Update on Ubuntu for smartphones

Everyone is welcome to join our Town Hall Hangout this Wednesday, 19 February at 16.50 UK / 17.50 Europe / 08.50 Pacific / 11.50 Eastern.

Just visit: http://ubuntuonair.com/ to hear an update about Ubuntu for smartphones and direct your burning questions to the team:

  • Mark Shuttleworth, Founder of Canonical and Ubuntu
  • Cristian Parrino, VP Mobile
  • Rick Spencer, VP Engineering
  • Jono Bacon, Community Manager

Ask away over IRC by joining: #ubuntu-on-air.

See you there!

Related posts

Samir Kamerkar
22 April 2026

From Jammy to Resolute: how Ubuntu’s toolchains have evolved

Ubuntu Article

We cover new toolchain versions, devpacks and workflows that improve the developer experience. The evolution of Ubuntu’s toolchains story goes beyond just providing up-to-date GCC, LLVM, and Python. It is also about opinionated openJDK variants, task-focused devpacks, FIPS compliant toolchains, and snaps, like the new .NET snap and Snapcr ...

Rob Gibbon
20 April 2026

Hybrid search and reranking: a deeper look at RAG

AI Article

Many of us are familiar with the retrieval augmented generative AI (RAG) pattern for building agentic AI applications – like digital concierges, frontline support chatbots and agents that can help with basic self-service troubleshooting.  At a high level, the flow for RAG is fairly clear – the user’s prompt is augmented with some relevant ...

Canonical
20 April 2026

Canonical expands Ubuntu support to next-generation MediaTek Genio 520 and 720 platforms

edge computing Article

Canonical is pleased to announce the early access launch of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS for MediaTek’s Genio IoT platforms. Building on the companies’ strategic partnership, this release introduces optimized Ubuntu images for the brand-new Genio 520 and 720, while continuing to provide robust support for the Genio 350, 510, 700, and 1200.  The colla ...