Canonical announces the General Availability of Ubuntu for the NVIDIA® Jetson Orin™ for edge AI and robotics, bringing optimized performance, out-of-the-box compatibility, and an easy pathway to high-performance AI solutions for AI developers everywhere.
Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, announced official support for the NVIDIA Jetson platform, marking a significant milestone in its collaboration with NVIDIA to accelerate AI innovation at the edge. This General Availability (GA) release brings enterprise-grade stability and support to the powerful combination of Ubuntu and NVIDIA Jetson system-on-modules.
Empowering AI innovation across industries
The official support of Ubuntu for NVIDIA Jetson modules through Canonical’s certified hardware program enables developers and enterprises to create breakthrough AI solutions across all industries. From autonomous machines and smart cities to industrial automation and robotics, this collaboration opens up new possibilities for AI-driven innovation to benefit from a stable and improved OS and cutting-edge hardware.
Key benefits of this collaboration include:
- Unparalleled performance: Harness the full potential of the NVIDIA Jetson platform’s powerful AI capabilities with optimized Ubuntu images.
- Enterprise-ready security: Benefit from Ubuntu’s robust security features and long-term support.
- Seamless development to deployment: Experience a unified environment from cloud to edge, streamlining the AI development process.
- Reliable stability on certified hardware: Canonical’s QA team performs an extensive set of over 500 OS compatibility-focused hardware tests to ensure that every aspect of the system is checked and verified for the best Ubuntu experience.
Introducing Ubuntu Core for NVIDIA Jetson
Ubuntu Core is a minimal, secure, and strictly confined operating system designed specifically for deploying production images for IoT and edge computing devices.
This ‘immutable’ flavor of Ubuntu puts every system component, and the system itself, into a set of containers with strict kernel-enforced confinement. It supports reliable over-the-air updates with failsafe rollbacks, making it ideal for intelligent edge and IoT applications. Once you have created your application in Ubuntu Desktop or Server, you can now build your immutable Ubuntu Core image based on your developed applications for your NVIDIA Jetson.
Ubuntu Core on NVIDIA Jetson offers:
- Production images: Streamline your production with the ability to create custom images for your NVIDIA Jetson applications.
- Enhanced security: Built from the ground up with security in mind, ensuring cybersecurity-compliant and trustworthy devices in critical environments.
- Efficient device management: Enjoy reliable, remotely accessible devices with mission-critical over-the-air (OTA) and seamless updates.
- Agile containerization: Benefit from an immutable and strictly confined system that separates the kernel, OS image, and your applications.
- Hardware ecosystem support: Tested and optimized for leading IoT and edge devices, including NVIDIA Jetson.
Explore the potential of Ubuntu Core
A powerful partnership for the AI Era
“Our collaboration with NVIDIA represents a significant step forward in democratizing AI at the edge,” said Joe Dulin, VP of Devices Sales at Canonical. “By combining Ubuntu’s enterprise-grade reliability with NVIDIA’s cutting-edge accelerated computing, we’re enabling innovators to take AI from concept to production effortlessly.”
This GA release is the latest in a long series of collaborations between Canonical and NVIDIA, and one of many releases under Canonical’s Silicon Partner Program, which produces optimized images of Ubuntu for certified hardware from the world’s biggest manufacturers.
Canonical’s collaboration with NVIDIA aligns perfectly with our mission to build and provide the most optimized, and advanced AI solutions to businesses and developers around the world. Whether you’re an enterprise delivering commercial solutions or an enthusiast looking to get hands-on with AI, Ubuntu on NVIDIA Jetson provides the ideal platform for developing the most advanced and adaptable AI systems on the market.
Getting started
Enterprises and individual developers can now access the GA release of Ubuntu for NVIDIA Jetson. These images are optimized for the entire range of NVIDIA Jetson Orin™ devices, ensuring you can make the most of this powerful platform for edge AI and robotics. Using these images is fast and easy: simply select the OS image to match your hardware, flash it onto a USB or NVMe disk, and load it onto your board. For Ubuntu Core, you will be able to download pre-built images for exploration and experimentation; however, if you are ready to build your first production image then our documentation is the best place to start.
To get started with Ubuntu on NVIDIA Jetson, visit our download page.
The official support of Ubuntu for NVIDIA Jetson marks a new chapter in edge AI computing. By combining Ubuntu’s security, reliability, and ease of use with NVIDIA’s accelerated computing, we’re setting a new standard for AI development and deployment at the edge.
We invite developers, enterprises, and innovators across industries to explore the possibilities of this collaboration. Get started with building your AI infrastructure and systems on certified hardware and help us shape the future of AI and drive digital transformation across the globe.
About Canonical
Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, provides open source security, support, and services. Our portfolio covers critical systems, from the smallest devices to the largest clouds, from the kernel to containers, from databases to AI. With customers that include top tech brands, emerging startups, governments and home users, Canonical delivers trusted open source for everyone.
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