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Canonical's pitch starts with snaps and security.
In London, Canonical founder and CEO Mark Shuttleworth argued that Ubuntu 26.04, Ubuntu Linux, is the operating system for the "AI agentic era." Well, that's easy to claim, but what does Canonical have that can back up that claim?
In his keynote for Ubuntu Summit 26.04, Shuttleworth framed open source as the "raw material" of the next wave of technological disruption. Specifically, he stated that the pace of AI-driven software innovation has outstripped traditional packaging and release processes. For AI, Linux users must move beyond Advanced Packaging Tool (APT) and Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) to signed, auto-updated, policy-driven snaps. Of course, snaps have long been Canonical's answer to delivering upstream software, but now AI requires updates at internet speed without sacrificing auditability or control, and that means snaps.