Ubuntu and AMD ROCm are the cornerstone of our AI development environment.
Ubuntu is one of the most widely used distributions for machine learning work, and ROCm is AMD's open source platform that enables GPU acceleration for AI and high-performance computing workloads. Both play important roles in the current AI boom.
Now, Canonical has announced a partnership with AMD to bring ROCm software natively to Ubuntu.
AMD ROCm comes to Ubuntu
For more information on AMD ROCm, please see this.
Compiled by Canonical Dedicated engineering team Specifically, you will package and maintain the AMD ROCm software library for Ubuntu. This team handles everything from initial packaging to ongoing support and long-term maintenance.
The plan is To make ROCm available on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and laterwill continue to be available in all subsequent Ubuntu releases. The Canonical team plans to submit these packages upstream to Debian, which, if accepted, could benefit the broader ecosystem.
What does this actually mean?
This makes it much easier to deploy AMD AI solutions across different environments. Whether you're running a data center, workstation, laptop, Windows Subsystem for Linux, or edge setup, ROCm works without much effort or effort on your part.
This is available as a dependency for the Debian package, snap, or Docker image you are building. Performance fixes and security patches are automatically pushed through like other system packages.
For you as an end userIf you're using Ubuntu with an AMD GPU, installing ROCm is set to be as easy as running it. sudo apt install rocm Alternatively, you can have it automatically included as a dependency when you install a project such as ollam-amd.
To ensure support for the latest hardware, both stable LTS versions and rolling ROCm releases will be available for Ubuntu. Security patches and performance improvements are delivered regularly. sudo apt upgrade Instructions.
Additionally, thanks to Ubuntu Pro, ROCm LTS releases are supported for up to 15 years.
Andrej Zdravkovic, AMD's senior vice president and chief software officer, said in the announcement:
AMD ROCm software enables open, high-performance acceleration of AI and HPC on AMD hardware.
By working with Canonical to package AMD ROCm for Ubuntu, we will make it easier for developers and enterprises to deploy AMD solutions on supported systems.
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