Bring Ubuntu to your
organisation
Ubuntu Desktop combines enterprise-grade support, security
and functionality with the best of open source.
Secure enterprise management with Ubuntu Pro Desktop
Secure open-source stack
Receive 10 years of security patches for Ubuntu LTS releases with Expanded Security Maintenance (ESM) and coverage for over 23,000 packages in the Ubuntu Universe repository. Minimise downtime with Kernel Livepatch.
Landscape Fleet Management
Software updates, configuration management, policy compliance, and permission control for your entire physical and virtual fleet. Landscape is easy to use and smoothly integrates with other tooling through a robust API.
Advanced Active Directory Policies
Increase your management capabilities with full Group Policy Object support, remote script execution and privilege management.
Compliance, certification and hardening
Ubuntu Pro delivers security and compliance for even the most sensitive workloads with FIPS 140-2 certified modules, CIS hardening and Common Criteria EAL2 certification available.
Certified hardware
Ubuntu Desktop is certified across a wide range of laptops, desktops, and workstations, including the HP Z series and Dell XPS and Precision lines.
Weekday or 24/7 Support
Advanced support customers get direct 24/7 access to our enterprise open source support team through our web portal, knowledge base or via phone.
Seamless operations on your choice of hardware
To offer the best performance on Ubuntu, manufacturers are pre-loading devices with an Ubuntu certified image. Canonical is committed to working closely with the world's leading manufacturers to optimise and certify Ubuntu on their laptops and PCs.
Ubuntu for Data Science
Develop AI models on high-end Ubuntu workstations. Train on racks of bare-metal or public clouds with hardware acceleration. Deploy to cloud, edge and IoT. All on Ubuntu.
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Developers and data science teams use the Ubuntu platform to support their most important work. Our collaboration with Canonical enables industry innovators to get AI-powered insights from their data faster.
Manuvir Das — NVIDIA, Head of Enterprise Computing
Write once and deploy anywhere
Using Ubuntu Desktop provides a common platform for development, test, and production environments.
Ubuntu in the cloud
Canonical fully supports public clouds and provides its own solutions for private cloud implementation and management, as well as workload orchestration in hybrid cloud and multicloud environments.
Easily manage your IT estate
Landscape
Lower the complexity and cost of running a Linux desktop estate using Landscape, Canonical's systems management tool for monitoring, managing, patching and compliance reporting on all your Ubuntu desktops. Included in an Ubuntu Pro Desktop subscription.
Active Directory
Integrating Ubuntu Desktop into an existing Active Directory architecture can be an automated and effortless process when using System Security Services Daemon (SSSD). GPO is available by default to manage desktop settings and Ubuntu Pro users receive access to additional Active Directory policies like remote script execution and privilege management.
Secure enterprise management with Ubuntu Pro Desktop
Ubuntu Pro Desktop is a comprehensive subscription delivering enterprise-grade security, management tooling, and extended support for developers and organisations. Ubuntu Pro Desktop is free for personal use on up to five machines.
- Security updates for the full open source stack
- Advanced Active Directory and LDAP integration
- Estate monitoring and management
- FIPS 140-2 certified modules and CIS hardening
- Minimise rolling reboots with Kernel Livepatch
- Optional weekday or 24x7 support tiers
For more information, download our whitepaper:
Virtual desktops, powered by AWS
Ubuntu Desktop on Amazon WorkSpaces offers developers an optimised Ubuntu Desktop environment to rapidly build, test and deploy code — spinning up and tearing down instances as required.
IT organisations benefit from rapid deployment, configuration and scalability for their managed Ubuntu Desktops whilst their applications and data remain secured in the AWS cloud, even when their developers are working remotely.