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Canonical has a long way to catch up, but it knows who it's chasing

It's a few years behind schedule, but development has resumed on the desktop edition of Canonical's existing immutable IoT distro, Ubuntu Core.

Engineering veep Jon Seager announced that Canonical is Accelerating Ubuntu Core Desktop on the company's Discourse forum. Even before his announcement, there was some fresh activity on the project's GitHub .

The post gives some explanation of why the effort is running so late, envisions three potential use cases, and talks a little about the work that is already going on to enable it to finally happen. There's no solid timeline given, but Seager says that "over the coming release cycle" the team will be working out what needs to happen, which means that "over the coming weeks, we'll have the infrastructure ready for… daily image builds for Ubuntu Core Desktop."

"Accelerating" sounds good, but with the best will in the world, it could hardly slow it down.…