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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
14 March 2007

Guadalinex to derive from Ubuntu

Desktop News

Guadalinex is a Debian based GNU/Linux distribution promoted by the government of Andalusia (Spain). It’s used in schools, public libraries, centers for elderly people and special info centers on over 100,000 PCs. Recently, Guadalinex announced that the next version would be based on Ubuntu. A translations of their justification is includ ...


Canonical
14 March 2007

Ubuntu 5.10 reaches end-of-life on April 13th 2007

Desktop News

Ubuntu announced the release of 5.10 almost 18 months ago, on October 13th. As with the earlier releases, Ubuntu committed to ongoing security and critical fixes for a period of 18 months. The support period is now nearing its end and Ubuntu 5.10 will reach end of life on Friday April 13th 2007. At that ...


Canonical
5 March 2007

Canonical and SpikeSource partner to offer certified applications

Desktop News

Canonical Ltd, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, and SpikeSource, a provider of open source solutions, today announced that SpikeSource will certify its business-ready open source applications for Ubuntu, and deliver support for Ubuntu through its growing channel of solution providers. Under this agreement, SpikeSource will certify its ap ...


Canonical
15 February 2007

Rosetta has been released

Desktop News

The Rosetta Translation Portal team is pleased to announce that the portal is now ready for widespread use. Rosetta’s goal is to make the process of translating free software as easy as possible for both translators and software maintainers. Maintainers can send us PO Templates and PO Files, which will be published through the web ...


Canonical
14 February 2007

Ubuntu wins TUX award

Desktop News

Ubuntu and Kubuntu have been awarded the TUX Magazine Readers Choice Award for 2005 TUX Magazine is aimed at the new Linux user, and currently has over 50,000 registered readers. Firefox and OpenOffice.org also won in their categories, of which there were 14 in total. “We were amazed by both the quantity and quality of ...


Canonical
8 February 2007

Canonical and Linspire announce technology partnership

Desktop News

Canonical Ltd, the lead sponsor of the popular Ubuntu operating system, and Linspire, Inc. the developer of the commercial desktop Linux operating system of the same name, today announced plans for a technology partnership that integrates core competencies from each company into the other's open source Linux offerings. Linspire will trans ...


Canonical
29 January 2007

Ubuntu Live: call for participation is open

Desktop News

The Call for Participation is now open for Ubuntu Live, the first official conference dedicated to this award-winning and popular Linux-based operating system. The three-day event will aim to give participants all the knowledge they need to explore and set in motion the powerful features in Ubuntu and related applications. Program chairs ...


Canonical
24 January 2007

Offering Ubuntu users leading sales, marketing and support CRM tools

Desktop News

Canonical Ltd, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, today announced the availability of Sugar Open Source for users of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS edition (Long Term Support). The simplified deployment process and ease-of-use of Ubuntu, combined with SugarCRMs’ feature-rich business processes, will enable companies to build better customer relationships ...


Canonical
21 December 2006

Canonical Ltd partners with LynuxTraining Sàrl to develop Ubuntu Certified professional training courses

Desktop News

Canonical Ltd, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, today announced it has partnered with LynuxTraining Sàrl to develop the first dedicated Ubuntu training courses for the 'Ubuntu Certified Professional' status. UCP is a training certification based on the LPI level 1 certification. From Q1 2007 delegates will be able to prepare for, and ach ...


Canonical
20 December 2006

Zmanda Recovery Manager now available for Ubuntu

Desktop News

ZRM Also Boasts New Enterprise Backup Features to Increase MySQL DBA Productivity Zmanda™, the leader in open source backup and recovery software, today announced that Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) for MySQL — the only comprehensive, enterprise-class backup and recovery solution designed specifically for MySQL databases ­— is available on ...


Canonical
16 November 2006

Ubuntu wins most user friendly Linux distribution award

Desktop News

Canonical Ltd, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, today announced it has scooped another two awards for Ubuntu, its leading-edge Linux distribution. At the Linux New Media Awards, on Wednesday 15th November, Ubuntu was awarded 'Most User-Friendly Linux Distribution', and Canonical the 'Best combination of Community and Commerce'. Ubuntu al ...


Canonical
12 November 2006

The last several months (busy, busy, busy)

Ubuntu Design

It has been a while since I wrote a blog entry. Let’s see….I spent some time with my family in America. Drove around a bit between Wisconsin and St. Louis, visiting my mother, father, sisters and brothers, and their respective families.Snapped th ...