Canonical’s Jon Seager joins us to unpack Ubuntu’s bold desktop reset, and what could be the biggest reimagining of Ubuntu in its history.

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• canonical/workshop - GitHub — Ubuntu-native development environments: secure, fast, composable, and agent-ready.
• The Immutable Linux Paradox - Jon Seager
• Ubuntu Core — Canonical's immutable, snap-based Ubuntu for desktops, servers, and edge devices.
• Snap confinement — How strict confinement and interfaces isolate applications.
• LXD — Canonical's system container manager, used for isolated development environments.
• uutils coreutils — Rust reimplementation of the GNU coreutils shipped in 26.10.
• bootc — Container-image-based OS updates, as used by Fedora's image-based desktops.
• ntpd-rs — Full-featured Rust implementation of NTP, including NTS support.
• imagecraft — Tool for customizing and building bootable Ubuntu images.
• Introducing Myna: Speech to Text for Ubuntu Desktop - Desktop
• Myna speech-to-text is now available as a technology preview
• Myna - GitHub — Myna is a lightweight speech-to-text application for Ubuntu Desktop.
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• Pick: Tangram — Tangram is a new kind of browser. It is designed to organize and run your Web applications. Each tab is persistent and independent. You can set multiple tabs with different accounts for the same application.
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• Pick: Pinchflat-NGX — An enhanced, self-hosted YouTube media manager built on Pinchflat with Material design UI, PostgreSQL support, OIDC SSO, and disk staging.