Announcement: Canonical Ubuntu Server Outages and Status

[swarfendor437]

Hi, the LM forum is not quiet on this topic:

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=2783700#p2783700

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I think this says it all: Canonical employs a staff of over 400 people, with approximately 250 estimated to be involved in development roles based on LinkedIn statistics. In contrast, the Debian project is an all-volunteer organization with over 1,400 active contributors and developers as of 2026, none of whom are paid by a central corporate entity. While Canonical has a paid workforce, many of its engineers are also Debian Developers who contribute to upstream projects. Debian relies on a glo…