Canonical

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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
26 September 2008

New Ubuntu Server Edition Survey

Server Ubuntu

The Ubuntu Server Team wants to know how you use Ubuntu Server in day-to-day operations to help the team prioritize the support and development of future Ubuntu Server Editions. In an effort to better understand, support and further the Ubuntu Server Edition we would like to ask you to take this survey which should take

Canonical
26 September 2008


Canonical
24 September 2008

Intrepid and beyond

Design Ubuntu

Things are winding up for Intrepid. This time, we spent quite some effort on trying out new things. Our dark theme test seemed to pay off. Next time I would announce it better 🙂 There are quite a few changes coming in Intrepid soon, sounds (hopefully

Canonical
24 September 2008


Canonical
15 September 2008

Codecs and DVD playback on Ubuntu 8.04 for all users

Desktop Ubuntu

For the first time we are making codecs for media playback and a DVD player, from our partners at Fluendo and Cyberlink, available through the Ubuntu store. We have had relationships with these companies for a while and to date we have offered their products to our hardware partners as pre-install options. Now though, we

Canonical
15 September 2008


Canonical
4 September 2008

Dell's new Ubuntu powered Inspiron Mini 9

Partners Ubuntu

Here at Canonical we are pretty excited about the global announcements today from Dell about its new Inspiron Mini 9, which will soon ship in many countries with Ubuntu 8.04 pre-installed. Not only does the Ubuntu version come with a custom launcher that makes the Inspiron Mini 9 fast, safe and easy to use, it

Canonical
4 September 2008


Canonical
5 August 2008

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS – whole load of apps going on

Partners Ubuntu

When we released Ubuntu 8.04 LTS we announced that we would soon have more enterprise ready applications that solve real business problems. This year’s Linuxworld Expo will see us working with our partners to demonstrate exactly why Ubuntu is now firmly in the sights of IT Managers and architects in many businesses....

Canonical
5 August 2008


Canonical
5 August 2008

Unison™ released for Ubuntu to bring unified communications to Linux

News Desktop

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...

Canonical
5 August 2008


Canonical
1 August 2008

QA-IQ to deliver official Ubuntu training in the UK

Canonical News Ubuntu

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
1 August 2008


Canonical
30 July 2008

LinuxWorld: all about the partners

Partners Ubuntu

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
30 July 2008


Canonical
17 July 2008

Launchpad 2.0 radically improves collaboration for open source projects

News Desktop

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...

Canonical
17 July 2008


Canonical
9 July 2008

Canonical and Valusoft bring Ubuntu plus support to Best Buy

Desktop Ubuntu

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
9 July 2008


Canonical
7 July 2008

Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS released

Server Ubuntu

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
7 July 2008


Canonical
24 June 2008

Ubuntu MID Edition 8.04 achieves its first public release

Canonical News Ubuntu

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
24 June 2008


Canonical
19 June 2008

MySQL is using Bazaar and Launchpad for their source code

Article Ubuntu

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
19 June 2008


Canonical
18 June 2008

Changes to Gobuntu

open source Ubuntu

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...

Canonical
18 June 2008