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Canonical
21 July 2009

Canonical releases source code for Launchpad

News Cloud and server

Release of Launchpad to encourage innovation Canonical, the founder of the Ubuntu project, announced today that it has open-sourced the code that runs Launchpad, the software development and collaboration platform used by tens of thousands of developers. Launchpad is used to build Ubuntu and thousands of other projects,...

Canonical
21 July 2009

Canonical
20 July 2009

Featured paper cut: Nautilus, simplified

Design Ubuntu

I thought I’d share a fun paper cut from this week’s milestone that has seen some interesting developments. The proposed changes (and discussion) have grown larger than paper cut size, but some progress was made (resulting in a PPA for you to try) and you may find the work fascinating like I do. The paper

Canonical
20 July 2009

Canonical
17 July 2009

Ubuntu Flickr photo submissions

Design Ubuntu

The flickr group photos are coming along very well! ( http://www.flickr.com/groups/ubuntu-artwork/ ) Keep up the good work!

Canonical
17 July 2009

Canonical
9 July 2009

Karmic wallpapers

Design Ubuntu

Ubuntu would like to include a beautiful set of images for our users to choose from in our next release. In order to accomplish this we have set up a wiki page to explain things and guidelines for inclusion.In addition we’ve started a flickr group to a

Canonical
9 July 2009

Canonical
7 July 2009

Test drive Ubuntu on your Mac with Ubuntu.app

Design Ubuntu

During Gran Canaria Desktop Summit, Ivanka Majic, Kalle Persson, Andreas Nilsson, and I had a conversation about exposing designers to the growing momentum behind free software usability and design. People interested in contributing graphic design or usability work who use Macs represent a largely untapped source of...

Canonical
7 July 2009

Canonical
1 July 2009

Canonical delves deeper into the cloud, launches Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud services

News Cloud and server

Partners with Eucalyptus to offer ‘private cloud’ assessment, proof-of-concept and support services. Canonical, the founder of the Ubuntu project, today launched new professional services to help and support users building ‘private clouds’, cloud infrastructures behind a corporate firewall. The move follows the...

Canonical
1 July 2009

Canonical
8 June 2009

More of Ubuntu Training for Europe

Canonical News Ubuntu

With numerous new government backed Open Source initiatives kicking off in The Netherlands, we’ve decided to lead the way and ensure that Ubuntu training is widely available. Having training locations in every major Dutch city, AT Computing and Ictivity Training will provide authorised Ubuntu training from this summer....

Canonical
8 June 2009

Canonical
2 June 2009

Computex sees Ubuntu at the heart of the computing ecosystem

Desktop Ubuntu

Computex starts on June 2 in Taipei and, as every year, sees the world’s PC industry come together to discuss the development of the next generation of notebooks, netbooks and soon-to-be-released products. Canonical has been attending for the last three years and now, if the announcements are any indication, is very...

Canonical
2 June 2009

Sandisk collaborates to improve SSDs on Ubuntu netbooks

News Desktop

Canonical announces detail of collaboration with SanDisk to better support Ubuntu Ubuntu sponsor and leading solid state drive manufacturer share expertise to provide better Linux experience on both netbooks and laptops Canonical today announced that it has been collaborating with SanDisk, the global leader in flash...

Canonical
2 June 2009

Canonical
31 May 2009

Breathe icons 1st release

Design Ubuntu

The Breathe icon team just announced their initial release. Check it out if you haven’t seen it yet on the ubuntu wiki or on gnome-look.They’ve come a long way and are moving ahead at a steady pace. Breathe is an excellent example of the ubuntu artwork

Canonical
31 May 2009

Canonical
18 May 2009

Landscape 1.3 now Manages Ubuntu Server on Amazon EC2

Ubuntu Advantage Ubuntu

Announcing the release of Landscape 1.3 – the next version of Canonical’s management and monitoring software that lets you manage multiple Ubuntu systems as easily as one. In addition, Landscape enables you to monitor all your systems from a single Web interface reducing the complexity of managing multiple systems. The...

Canonical
18 May 2009

Canonical
20 April 2009

Canonical announces availability of Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop Edition

News Desktop

Faster boot speed, enhanced application suite and more visual appeal — give users more reasons than ever to choose Ubuntu Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu,announced today that Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop Edition is free to download from Thursday 23 April. Also announced were the simultaneous releases of Ubuntu 9.04...

Canonical
20 April 2009

Canonical announces availability of Ubuntu 9.04 Server Edition

News Ubuntu

Canonical, the sponsor of Ubuntu, announced today that Ubuntu 9.04 Server Edition is available to download from Thursday 23 April. Canonical offers assessment, deployment, migration, training and support services to ensure that companies can make the most of the cost-effective, powerful and reliable Ubuntu Server...

Canonical
20 April 2009

Canonical
16 April 2009

New, shiny, condensed and hugely effective: The new Ubuntu Certified Professional course

Canonical News Ubuntu

The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) has recently (April 1st) updated its LPIC1 objectives significantly to come in line with advancements made over the past four years. This provides Canonical with the opportunity to readdress the Ubuntu Certified Professional (UCP) certification. As such, new UCP certification...

Canonical
16 April 2009