Canonical, the German company that develops the Ubuntu Linux distribution, has had various attempts to take a bigger position in the mobile market. The launch of a mobile version of Ubuntu, as a rival to Android, fizzled out, but now there are potentially more fruitful opportunities in the emergence of virtualized and Open RAN. The more the network is virtualized on cloud infrastructure, the more Linux-based operating systems will be embedded in the mobile infrastructure as well as the Android devices. Canonical was highlighted last year, when five major European operators published a study of the local Open RAN ecosystem, as an EU-based firm that could play an influential role in this platforms. Now Canonical has announced the latest release…