692: Ubuntu’s Core Reset

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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• Accelerating Ubuntu Core Desktop
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• Accelerating Ubuntu Core Desktop
• Engineering Ubuntu For The Next 20 Years
• GamingOnLinux: Core Desktop restarted, gaming plans
• It's FOSS: Core Desktop + firmware HWE proposal
• Why Canonical Is Reviving Ubuntu Core Desktop (explainer)
• Releases - canonical/ubuntu-core-desktop - GitHub — Ubuntu Core Desktop 26 DANGEROUS developer preview.
• 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…