Canonical
Canonical produces Ubuntu, provides commercial services for Ubuntu's users, and works with hardware manufacturers, software vendors and cloud partners to certify Ubuntu.
1480 posts by Canonical
Desktop
Open source industry veteran Matt Asay joins Canonical as chief operating officer
by Canonical on 5 February 2010
Canonical Ltd., the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, announced today that open source industry veteran Matt Asay has joined the company as chief operating...
Ubuntu
Ending poverty with open hardware
by Canonical on 5 February 2010
The Hexayurt is a new kind of sheltering solution. To make the simplest hexayurt, make a wall by putting six sheets of plywood on their sides in a hexagon....
Ubuntu
Do I really want to touch my computer all day?
by Canonical on 3 February 2010
This concept video has been doing the rounds following a brief showing on Tech Crunch. It looks like a tablet interface you could do work on but I have to...
Ubuntu
Platform sprint in Portland
by Canonical on 2 February 2010
The Ubuntu platform sprint in Portland, Oregon has been an amazing experience. We’ve gotten loads of work done and are having a great time in a wonderful...
Ubuntu
Lucid Paper Jam update!
by Canonical on 26 January 2010
I thought I’d write a quick update on paper cut progress for Lucid. Last week was our “Sound & Video” paper jam. The following paper cuts were fixed:Totem:...
Ubuntu
Improving Launchpad bug workflow for opportunistic programmers
by Canonical on 24 January 2010
I’m a talented software engineer. I have a good deal of application programming experience on Windows, Mac OS, Linux, iPhone, Android, and the Web. I’m crazy...
Ubuntu
ISV support for Ubuntu Server Edition widens
by Canonical on 22 January 2010
This week were very pleased to see three companies behind three great technologies announce their support for Ubuntu. In the run up to the LTS in late April...
Ubuntu
IBM Client for Smart Work with Ubuntu support released
by Canonical on 18 January 2010
At Lotusphere today we announced the availability of the IBM Client for Smart Work complete with support from Canonical. It is a significant milestone both...
Ubuntu
Draggy Fists
by Canonical on 12 January 2010
It always feels dangerous to mess with the mouse pointer when working with Flash as it has a tendency to vanish entirely if you you miss a mouse eve due to...
Ubuntu
Empathy Paper Jam
by Canonical on 11 January 2010
Last week marked our first “paper jam” for the Lucid cycle, during which the Ubuntu community identified ten potential paper cuts affecting Empathy to fix in...
Cloud and server
Canonical celebrates new UA: Landscape interface with Ubuntu Advantage free trial offer
by Canonical on 1 January 2010
New interface significantly eases feature deployment for systems management tool LONDON, 1 December 2010 — Canonical today announced a free trial to showcase...
Cloud and server
Canonical announces commercial services for its version control system, Bazaar
by Canonical on 10 December 2009
Set up, support and troubleshooting now available for new and existing deployments Companies and open source projects interested in using Canonical's popular...