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Canonical produces Ubuntu, provides commercial services for Ubuntu's users, and works with hardware manufacturers, software vendors and cloud partners to certify Ubuntu.


Canonical
5 August 2008

Unison™ released for Ubuntu to bring unified communications to Linux

Desktop News

Partnership with Canonical will challenge Microsoft unified communications with more powerful and cost-effective Linux alternative Unison Technologies (www.unison.com) today announced a wide-ranging partnership to bring unified communications to Linux. Unison, the first fully-unified communications software, will run both on Ubuntu Server ...


Canonical
1 August 2008

QA-IQ to deliver official Ubuntu training in the UK

Ubuntu Canonical News

Good news for the British, or at least those Brits who are looking to take up Ubuntu training – QA-IQ, the UK’s largest I.T. training provider are adding Ubuntu to their roster with the first classes kicking off in London in September. The initial scheduled courses, Ubuntu Professional courses 1 & 2, aim to equip ...


Canonical
30 July 2008

LinuxWorld: all about the partners

Ubuntu Partners

Canonical is attending LWE next week in the Moscone Centre in San Francisco. We have taken one of the big booths, #716 so it should be hard to miss us if you are in attendance. One of the things we have been working very hard on over the last couple of years is establishing Ubuntu ...


Canonical
17 July 2008

Launchpad 2.0 radically improves collaboration for open source projects

Desktop News

Launchpad 2.0 Radically Improves Collaboration for Open Source Projects. Canonical's Launchpad2.0 Improves Flexibility And Integration of Developer Collaboration Nexus. Canonical Inc. announced today a major new release of Launchpad,including features that make collaborative development faster and more flexible and allowing users to integ ...


Canonical
9 July 2008

Canonical and Valusoft bring Ubuntu plus support to Best Buy

Ubuntu Desktop

If you walk into a BestBuy this week you may spot some new software peeking out from the shelves.  Yes, Ubuntu is now available as a spiffy boxed set in stores and on-line. We’ve been working with ValuSoft who are a distribution company that specialise in the US retail channel. The boxed set comes with ...


Canonical
7 July 2008

Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS released

Ubuntu Server

Today we announced the release of Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS for both server and desktop. This is the first of a series of maintenance releases on the 8.04 LTS roadmap that we have drawn below, and includes hundreds of important updates which are detailed in the release announcement. Mark has spoken about the overall  strategy in ...


Canonical
24 June 2008

Ubuntu MID Edition 8.04 achieves its first public release

Ubuntu Canonical News

We are delighted to be able to welcome Ubuntu Mobile Internet Device (MID) Edition 8.04 to the world as a full developers’ release. It is based on the Ubuntu Desktop Edition, and it is now available for download.  The Ubuntu MID Edition 8.04 has been built by the Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded community that is ...


Canonical
19 June 2008

MySQL is using Bazaar and Launchpad for their source code

Ubuntu Article

Now this is exciting news: MySQL is now using Bazaar and Launchpad for their source code! Both the main MySQL server code and the code for many ancilliary projects have been converted to Bazaar, and are published on Launchpad. Bazaar is a distributed version control system that Just Works and adapts to the workflows you ...


Canonical
18 June 2008

Changes to Gobuntu

Ubuntu open source

The Gobuntu development team would like to announce that after 8.04 release of Gobuntu, the project will aim to merge many of the Gobuntu changes into mainline Ubuntu, such as our “Free Software Only” installer option which only installs software considered free by the Free Software Foundation’s definition of software freedom. This instal ...


Canonical
3 June 2008

Canonical showcases Ubuntu Netbook Remix at Computex

Desktop News

Canonical Now Delivers for OEMs a Rapid Route to Market For Netbooks Powered by an Intel Atom Processor Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, today announced that it will be demonstrating a reworked desktop image of Ubuntu built specifically for a new category of portable Internet-centric devices – netbooks. These affordable, power ...


Canonical
26 May 2008

UDS Intrepid

Ubuntu Design

I spent the last week in Prague at the Ubuntu Developer Summit working on our next release, the Intrepid Ibex. In my eyes this was the best UDS yet. Pretty soon you’ll be noticing some pretty major changes in the artwork. Due to Intrepid being the firs ...


Canonical
21 April 2008

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Desktop Edition released

Desktop News

Integrates the Latest Stable Applications with Long Term Support Canonical Ltd. announced the upcoming availability of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Desktop Edition for free download on Thursday 24 April. In related news, Canonical also announced the simultaneous release of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server Edition. Ubuntu 8.04 Long Term Support (LTS) provides a ...