Two new T Shirts for the Maverick Meerkat release of Ubuntu that comes out in just over a week have appeared in the Canonical Store.
New training courses based on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS are now available from Canonical. The courses available remain the same as previously with Ubuntu Certified Professional (UCP), Deploying Ubuntu Server Edition (plus an accelerated version) and Deploying Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud all available […]
Dave Neary has posted the results of the GNOME census which has been looking at contributions to GNOME, who develops what, where it's coming from and who's been doing it over the last two years. The report has revealed that most of the upstream commits to GNOME are from people in their spare time with over 70% of respondents listing themselves as volunteers.
Ubuntu’s parent company Canonical have become the first member to sign up to the ‘Open Invention Network’s new associate membership program. The Open Invention Network exists to acquire patents and license them royalty free to […]
Users buying the new limited edition Lynx toy from the Canonical store will also be helping to save real Lynx’s in the process. Ubuntu’s parent company Canonical are donating a portion of each Lynx toy […]
Canonical are currently the only Linux company to license H.264/AVC, the patented non-free technology used to compress video and favoured by companies such as Apple & Microsoft for HTML5 Video. Neither RedHat, makers of Fedora, […]
In an interview with the Ubuntu Turkey LoCo team Canonical CTO Matt Zimmerman discusses the reasons behind some of the recent controversial changes to Ubuntu ” from the removal of photo editor GIMP to the […]
Mark Shuttleworth has announced that he is to step down as CEO of Canonical, the financial backers of Ubuntu. The CEO duties of Canonical will be handed over to Jane Silber (pictured right), the current […]
Canonical (the commercial funder/creator of Ubuntu) are contributing âengineering’ to Google (for ChromeOS, presumably) under contract. The official statement posted on the Canonical blog reads as follows. Congratulations to Google on the open sourcing of […]
Canonical – the financial backers of Ubuntu – have developed a diagnostics software kit, installable on a USB thumb drive, to help users identify what bits of their hardware will work with Ubuntu and what […]
