March 2025

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Engineering Ubuntu For The Next 20 Years · Jon Seager

https://jnsgr.uk/2025/02/engineering-ubuntu-for-the-next-20-years/
In the last week of January 2025, I was appointed VP Engineering for Ubuntu at Canonical, meaning I’ll oversee the Ubuntu Foundations, Server and Desktop teams going forward. This post outlines my vision for that role, and how I hope to evolve the distribution, the engineering practices behind it, and the community over the coming years.

Another study on LLM energy use

https://birchtree.me/blog/another-study-on-llm-energy-use/
This study was linked to by The Verge today, and as someone who keeps looking at the energy costs of AI wondering why he’s missing something, one of the opening lines in the study’s executive summary really caught my eye: Electricity consumption from data centres, artificial intelligence (AI)