"Aside from relatively closed platforms such as ChromeOS and ChromeOS Flex, Ubuntu is the closest thing that the Linux world has to an industry standard - and Ubuntu is committed to its snap packaging format. At last week's Ubuntu Summit 25.10 at Canonical's London HQ, one thing from the event program struck us: several independent companies talking about how working with Canonical on Ubuntu support made life easier. Notably, this included talking about creating snap packages of their apps to simplify distribution."
"And, of course, the dreaded "AI" was unavoidable. Here, too, vendors are buddying up with Canonical. Google and Nvidia cooperated on Optimizing AI Workloads with Ubuntu AI images. Nvidia's Raffaello Bonghi talked about Building Smart Robots with Nvidia's Open Platforms for Training, Simulation, and Deployment. Qualcomm was there to talk about how cooperating with Canonical in moving development upstream helped deliver Developer ready Ubuntu on Qualcomm IoT Platforms."
Ubuntu serves as the closest thing to an industry standard in the Linux ecosystem and strongly promotes the snap packaging format. Multiple independent companies reported that collaborating with Canonical on Ubuntu support simplified distribution, often by producing official Snap packages. Vendors including DreamWorks and Proton described packaging and distribution work, while Google, Nvidia, and Qualcomm highlighted Ubuntu-focused AI images, robotics platforms, and developer-ready Ubuntu on IoT platforms. Canonical and partners showed rapid deployment of Alibaba Qwen LLMs via Inference Snaps. Some attendees received hardware such as a RUBIK Pi 3 SBC at the event.
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