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We have just released Landscape 1.2 which is the next version of our management and monitoring software that lets you manage multiple Ubuntu systems as easily as one. In addition to provisioning, package and security updates management, Landscape enables you to control and monitor all your systems from a single Web interface reducing the

Ubuntu Server Edition enhances Java, virtualization and system management capabilities Canonical Ltd. announced the upcoming availability of Ubuntu 8.10 Server Edition for free download on 30 October. In related news Canonical also announced the simultaneous release of Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop Edition. Ubuntu 8.10 Server Edition will be mainta

Ubuntu 8.10 desktop edition enables mobile, flexible computing for a changing digital world Canonical Ltd. announced the upcoming availability of Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop Edition for free download on 30 October. In related news, Canonical also announced the simultaneous release of Ubuntu 8.10 Server Edition. Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop Edition is desi

Ubuntu announced the release of 7.04 almost 18 months ago, on April 19, 2007. 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 7.04 will reach end of life on Sunday, October 19th, 2008. At

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

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

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

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

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. Gerry Carr, our

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 both on Ubuntu Server

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 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

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 allowing users to integ

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

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

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