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Ubuntu

2,412 reviews

Super-fast, easy to use and free, the Ubuntu operating system powers millions of desktops, netbooks and servers around the world.

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Canonical Kubernetes

28 reviews

Ubuntu is the reference platform for Kubernetes on all major public clouds, including official support in Google’s GKE, Microsoft’s AKS and Amazon’s EKS CAAS offerings. We deliver pure upstream Kubernetes tested across the widest range of clouds — from public clouds to private data centres, from bare metal to virtualised infrastructure.

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Canonical Netplan

19 reviews

Netplan is a utility for easily configuring networking on a linux system. You simply create a YAML description of the required network interfaces and what each should be configured to do. From this description Netplan will generate all the necessary configuration for your chosen renderer tool.

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Canonical MicroK8s

17 reviews

MicroK8s is pure upstream Kubernetes, not a subset. We keep it small with sensible choices that just work. That makes a quick install, with easy upgrades and great security — and leaves your options open later.

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Canonical LXD

16 reviews

Canonical LXD is a next generation system container manager.It offers a user experience similar to virtual machines but using Linux containers instead.It's image based with pre-made images available for a wide number of Linux distributions and is built around a very powerful, yet pretty simple, REST API.

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Canonical OpenStack

14 reviews

Canonical’s OpenStack on Ubuntu gives you the flexibility to place your OpenStack services exactly where you want them, while sharing all the operational code with a large community.

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Launchpad

13 reviews

Launchpad is a software collaboration platform that provides: Bug tracking Code hosting using Bazaar and Git Code reviews Ubuntu package building and hosting Translations Mailing lists Answer tracking and FAQs Specification tracking

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Canonical LXC

13 reviews

Canonical LXC by Linuxcontainers.org is a set of tools, templates, library and language bindings. It's pretty low level, very flexible and covers just about every containment feature supported by the upstream kernel.

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Canonical Juju

7 reviews

Canonical Juju solutions for big data. Build your environment in minutes. Reduce, analyse, index, visualise, repeat

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Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
09/11/2026
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Comfortable Ubuntu Experience for Software Development

ubuntu is comfortable to me to work in software development
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09/09/2026
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Stable and User-Friendly with Some Open Source Challenges

I like the fact that a South African made Ubuntu famous, which gives me a sense of pride. I also appreciate the command line structure, as it closely resembles Debian and Roseberian, which I'm used to working with.
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09/01/2026
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Dependable for Servers, Room for Desktop Improvement

I appreciate Ubuntu’s massive community ecosystem paired with its LTS release cadence. Whenever I hit strange issues with our sensor‑processing workloads, I can almost always find existing forum threads covering similar bugs. Deb package compatibility is solid, and most open‑source tools we rely on have pre‑built Ubuntu versions ready to install. Security patches roll out predictably for LTS builds, so I don’t need to spend excessive time hardening each individual server. For our small infrastructure team, this reduces guesswork and keeps our data pipelines operating steadily day in and day out. Additionally, deploying Ubuntu on our cloud instances was quick and straightforward; cloud templates were readily available so we could spin‑up new data processing servers in minutes. Once those initial templates were finalized, rolling out additional Ubuntu hosts became very fast for our environmental data workloads.

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What is Canonical Ltd.?

Canonical is an open source software company and the publisher behind Ubuntu, the world’s most popular enterprise Linux distribution. We provide open source security, support and services to your entire stack. Since the first Ubuntu release in 2004, we’ve worked to expand the Ubuntu philosophy from the cloud to the edge, together with a passionate global community of 200,000 contributors and an ecosystem of hardware partners.

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2004
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ubuntu.com