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Ubuntu emphasizes Arm64 support – and gets Rustier

Jul 9, 2026 at 09:59
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Ubuntu emphasizes Arm64 support – and gets Rustier

Some of Canonical’s ambitions for the future directions of Ubuntu are becoming apparent – despite some bumps in the road. Canonical engineering manager Ravi Kant Sharma posted an Ubuntu on Arm summer ’26 update on the Ubuntu Discourse. The company is boosting its efforts to make running Ubuntu on Arm64 a first-class experience. Some of the changes are behind the scenes, and others will be more immediately visible. Last month, Canonical announced that Ubuntu’s support for patching the live, running kernel now included Arm64 systems, on both mainstream Ubuntu 26.04 and the IoT-focused immutable Ubuntu Core 26. This indicates one of Canonical’s focuses: kernel live-patching is a server feature. For desktop or laptop machines,...

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