Mark Shuttleworth Wants Synchronicity between Linux Distributions
	In a recent post on his blog, Mark Shuttleworth, CEO at Canonical, has talked about synchronicity between Long Term Support releases from different Linux distributions. One of the arguments he brought to support this idea was that developers could focus more on the important role of component selection, integration, testing ... [read more >>]
	19 May 2008, 09:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Canonical to Launch Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server Edition Today
	Canonical announced a few days ago that Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server Edition would be available today, released at the same time with the Desktop Edition. The 8.04 Long Term Support (LTS) Server Edition is Canonical's fourth server release and will be supported for five years with maintenance and security updates. ... [read more >>]
	24 April 2008, 06:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Canonical Announced the General Availability of Canonical Landscape
	Canonical, Ubuntu's main commercial sponsor, announced today the availability of Canonical Landscape, its systems management and monitoring tool for Ubuntu. Landscape will be available for its commercial support customers and as a standalone commercial service. It will offer, to the increasing number of businesses that are deploying m ... [read more >>]
	05 March 2008, 10:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

System76 Sells Servers with Ubuntu 7.10 Pre-installed
	System76 Inc., a leading provider of Ubuntu pre-installed laptops and desktops, announced yesterday its first line of certified, pre-installed servers that run Ubuntu 7.10 Server Edition. The offer includes standard three-year parts replacement warranties and three years of operating system updates. The System76 servers wi ... [read more >>]
	27 February 2008, 03:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Canonical Will Resell IBM DB2 Express-C 9.5
	Canonical will resell IBM DB2 Express-C 9.5 as software, through the Ubuntu Partner Repository. The software will be used as a virtual appliance running on VMware. Canonical is also offering an annual support contract for IBM DB2 Express-C through shop.canonical.com. This is the first time when Ubuntu users will be able to buy an annual subscription service directly from the company. IBM DB2 Express-C is a free – as in no-charge – ed ... [read more >>]
	22 February 2008, 03:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Obsidian Will Provide Ubuntu Training in South Africa
	Obsidian announced that it would provide official training in South Africa, for the "Ubuntu Certified Professional" programme. Through the agreement with Canonical, Obsidian will provide training starting March, this year. Obsdian will offer both Ubuntu Professional Courses 1 and 2, helping System Administrators to pass the requi ... [read more >>]
	18 February 2008, 03:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Parlez-Vous Ubuntu? - Says the French Police
	Walking in the footsteps of the German Police, the "Gendarmerie Nationale" - the French paramilitary police – announced the migration of up to 70,000 computers to Canonical's Linux distribution, Ubuntu. The shift will be done progressively. Everything started in 2005, when the gendarmerie swit ... [read more >>]
	31 January 2008, 04:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Become An Ubuntu 'Jedi Master'
	If you wanted to use Ubuntu, but you had no knowledge about its usage, now it's your chance. With the help of the new Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop Course, you will be working with Canonical's distribution in no time! The course has a modular form, and it should take two days to complete all the ten lessons. The course comes in two different versions, a student guide and an instructor guide, both downloadable as PDF files. ... [read more >>]
	15 January 2008, 10:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Kubuntu 8.04 Will Not Be LTS
	Canonical and the Kubuntu team decided that, due to the delayed release of KDE 4, the upcoming release of Kubuntu, 8.04, will not be a long term support release. Periodically, Ubuntu, Kubuntu and other Ubuntu variants from Canonical launch a LTS release (the version is supported for three years on the desktop and five years on the server). Canonical and the Kubuntu team have decided not to tag Kubuntu 8.04 as LTS, because KDE ... [read more >>]
	29 December 2007, 08:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

PPA: A New Software Collaboration Service from Canonical
	Canonical started today a brand new software collaboration service for Ubuntu Linux developers, called Launchpad Personal Package Archive, or PPA. PPA is being added to Canonical's Launchpad development web site to allow groups to collaborate on packages, as well to allow individual developers to post their own versions ... [read more >>]
	26 November 2007, 08:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Students in Macedonia to Use Ubuntu
	Canonical announced yesterday that the Macedonian Ministry of Education and Science will deploy more than 180,000 workstations running Edubuntu 7.04 as part of the "Computer for Every Child" project. The operating system will be installed with the Macedonian language pack. The "Computer for Every Child" ... [read more >>]
	21 November 2007, 05:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Canonical Looking For Contracts
	Canonical, the supporting company of Ubuntu Linux, is trying to make deals with large hardware vendors like Dell, so their Linux distribution gets pre-installed on servers. Until now, Canonical has made contracts with small vendors. The company is discussing ... [read more >>]
	11 October 2007, 03:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Ubuntu Gets Web-based Management System
	Good news just keep on coming from Canonical. Soon after Mark Shuttleworth announced the long term support for the forthcoming Ubuntu 8.04 distro, scheduled for release in April, 2008, at the first Ubuntu Live conference in Portland, Oregon, Canonical thought it would be nice to make another announcement regarding its precious distribution. According to Canonical. Ubuntu enjoys now Landscape, a web-based system management pro ... [read more >>]
	24 July 2007, 11:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Canonical's Storm Went Open Source
	Canonical Ltd. released yesterday an important announcement regarding its Python-based Database Communication Tool, Storm. According to the press release, Storm will become the first open source component of Launchpad (web-based collaboration platform for open source developers). Gustavo Niemeyer, lead devel ... [read more >>]
	10 July 2007, 09:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Ubuntu Won the Best Linux Distribution Award
	The "Best Linux Distribution" award from the Enterprise Open Source Magazine's Readers went this year to Canonical's Ubuntu. The award was announced at the 2007 Enterprise Open Source Conference. The winners of the Readers' Choice Awards were announced by SYS-CON, the parent publishing company for Enterprise Open Source Magazine. The 11th International SOA World Conference & Ex ... [read more >>]
	09 July 2007, 09:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

What You Should Expect from Dell PCs with Ubuntu 7.04
	John Hull, Manager of Linux OS Technologies, announced yesterday, in a press release, an overview regarding the technical details of what customers should expect from the Dell initial Ubuntu offering. Available Software and Hardware: • The default software from the Ubuntu media will be install ... [read more >>]
	22 May 2007, 10:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia