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Right after Ubuntu's fifth birthday it was time to celebrate once more, because a Karmic Koala was released, and it brought with it a lot of reasons to upgrade. If Ubuntu 9.10's smart looks haven't convinced you yet, maybe the fast boot times and overall enhanced performance will. You still don't ... |
6 November 2009
17:01 GMT |
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IBM and Canonical launched yesterday a software bundle targeted at companies that packs productivity applications along with underlying system infrastructure in a well-integrated product. For it the two software creators have stacked the IBM Client for Smart Work, a collaboration and productivity package that was rel... |
22 October 2009
04:07 GMT |
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Canonical has announced today in a press release that a standalone version of its Landscape system monitoring and management service, Landscape Dedicated Server Edition, will be available for purchase in late September, 2009. This new standalone edition of Landscape will offer users the ability to install it locally ... |
4 August 2009
05:12 GMT |
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Canonical has announced today in a press release that it will offer new support services for both individual and small businesses, which will ease the transition to the popular Ubuntu operating system, from Microsoft Windows or Apple Macintosh. Ubuntu is a 100% free and open-source Linux OS for both desktop and serve... |
31 July 2009
06:39 GMT |
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Today, July 21st, Canonical announced a few hours ago that Launchpad, the popular collaboration and software development platform, has been open-sourced. Released a few years ago, the Launchpad project is today the home of thousands of projects and it is also used to build the Ubuntu operating system. As of today, an... |
21 July 2009
04:50 GMT |
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Following the February announcement that HP and Canonical started collaborating towards providing Ubuntu certification on HP machines, the companies have recently revealed that Ubuntu 9.04 Server Edition is now fully supported on the latest HP ProLiant G6 servers. In total, there are now 17 energy-efficient HP ProLia... |
17 June 2009
09:54 GMT |
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Computex Taipei, the second largest computer exhibition in the world, starts today and Canonical is enjoying a lot of attention for the third year in a row. On this occasion, the company made several exciting announcements regarding its popular Ubuntu Linux distribution. First of all, it appears that the Ubuntu fam... |
2 June 2009
09:01 GMT |
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In only a few years of existence, Ubuntu reached a very high level of popularity. With the slogan "Linux for human beings," Canonical clearly aimed to provide a smoother transition for the regular desktop users who wanted a change in their everyday computing experience. Though some may question Ubuntu's true con... |
21 May 2009
02:05 GMT |
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This time around Microsoft got a head start when it comes to stretching its Windows operating system into the Cloud. But the open-source community is also ready to step up its game. Canonical, the makers of the Ubuntu distribution of Linux, have introduced Ubuntu One, a service that is similar in some way and could b... |
14 May 2009
12:06 GMT |
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Canonical has just released a new "cloud" service for all users: Ubuntu One starts today as an invitation-based Beta. There are two storage options momentarily: a free 2GB account and a $10/month 10 GB one. If you are familiar with services like Dropbox, Ubuntu One apparently does the same job. The main features, a... |
12 May 2009
03:43 GMT |
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A couple of members of the Ubuntu Georgia US LoCo team (Josh and Nick Ali) recorded on April 2nd, 2009 an interview with the famous Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical and founder of the popular Ubuntu OS. In the 50-minute long interview, they talked about the upcoming Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) operating system ... |
3 April 2009
06:17 GMT |
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The success of the Ubuntu Training Program, combined with the growing popularity of Ubuntu Server Edition, led Canonical to announce a new course that exclusively focuses on the server edition. Called "Deploying Ubuntu in the Enterprise Environment," the training program lasts five days and addresses intermediate-to-... |
23 March 2009
20:01 GMT |
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One of Ubuntu's strategies for gaining a larger user base is providing quality, comprehensive training for everyone who desires. For that purpose, Canonical has recently included Fast Lane and Bridge Education in its Ubuntu Training Partner Programme, signing and training instructors. The courses are held all ac... |
16 February 2009
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Canonical announced a few days ago the availability of a DVD player and some media playback codecs for Ubuntu 8.04. These kinds of tools were until now available only for Canonical's hardware partners, but Ubuntu's financial sponsor decided to provide every user with the possibility to purchase them for him... |
19 September 2008
16:51 GMT |
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Welcome to our 8th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly! In this edition, you can read about: Debian's 15th anniversary, the inclusion of Canonical into the Linux Foundation, the new graphic drivers from Nvidia and ATI, the new release of EnGarde Secure Linux, highlights from the second beta of Mandriva 2009, second ... |
25 August 2008
07:30 GMT |
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The Linux Foundation announced today that Canonical had joined forces to accelerate the growth of Linux. The sponsor behind Ubuntu hopes to enhance Linux growth by supporting cross-industry collaboration and promotion.One of the most popular Linux distributions, Ubuntu, has become a serious option for both server and... |
18 August 2008
07:08 GMT |
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The leader in open source enterprise content management, Alfresco Software, announced a few days ago that Alfresco Labs 3 would be offered by Canonical within a pre-built software download in Ubuntu. New users can now be reached by Alfresco, as they are a simple apt-get away from executing a full installation.As resu... |
13 August 2008
02:44 GMT |
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Welcome to our 6th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly! In this edition, you can read about: the new and improved version of CCux Linux, the alpha edition of Fedora 10, the new gOS operating system with iGoogle and Google gadgets, the partnership between Canonical and Unison, the first release candidate of Linux Mint 5.0... |
13 August 2008
02:08 GMT |
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Unison Technologies announced a few days ago a partnership with Canonical, and the release of Unison, the first fully-unified communications software. Currently, there are two versions available for Ubuntu, Unison Server and Unison Desktop Edition, the latter being a beta version.This release eases once again the wid... |
12 August 2008
10:18 GMT |
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Canonical is pleased to announce today the official release of Launchpad 2.0, a major hosting platform for open source projects. Those who spend a significant amount of time on Launchpad must have noticed the new interface a few days ago, which, by the way, is easier to use and more intuitive. The new version makes t... |
29 July 2008
10:28 GMT |
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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, ... |
19 May 2008
09:10 GMT |
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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. Some... |
24 April 2008
06:29 GMT |
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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 businesse... |
5 March 2008
10:48 GMT |
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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 serve... |
27 February 2008
03:57 GMT |
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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 ab... |
22 February 2008
03:05 GMT |
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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 pa... |
18 February 2008
03:20 GMT |
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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 switched to open source ... |
31 January 2008
04:14 GMT |
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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 cours... |
15 January 2008
10:48 GMT |
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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... |
29 December 2007
08:21 GMT |
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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 v... |
26 November 2007
08:34 GMT |
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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" project of Mac... |
21 November 2007
05:56 GMT |
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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 with hardware vendors for a big server deal that could help ... |
11 October 2007
03:07 GMT |
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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 i... |
24 July 2007
11:10 GMT |
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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 developer of ... |
10 July 2007
09:25 GMT |
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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 Ent... |
9 July 2007
09:39 GMT |
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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 installed on the system, ... |
22 May 2007
10:00 GMT |
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