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Make your voice heard in the open standards debate

If you’re a keen follower of all things open source, you might already know about the UK Government’s consultation on open software standards. In short, the...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS certified on HP ProLiant servers: computing for the hyperscale era

Today, Canonical and HP announced that Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS is to be certified and supported by HP on its Proliant Systems:...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server to be certified, supported on HP ProLiant systems

Companies to target hyperscale, cloud and big data customers Canonical today announced the imminent certification and support of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, a leading...

Watch out for Ubuntu! The E-Pebble smartwatch

In the year 2000 IBM showed off the WatchPad, a computer on your wrist, but one perhaps ahead of its time and still needing a little bit of design-love. Of...

Berlin: Typobau: Ubuntu Arabic Ausstellung/Exhibition

Some of original sketches for Ubuntu Arabic are about to go on display in Berlin! We’ve talked before about the work done by Rayan Abdullah on drawing and...

Configuring Keystone in OpenStack (Essex)

Keystone is an identity service written in Python that provides a pluggable back end, designed to support various protocols for authentication and...

System status menu refinements in Ubuntu 12.10

For Ubuntu 12.04, we’re planning to merge the user and system menus, make major changes to the messaging menu, introduce a new sync menu, and retire the...

Canonical is Headline Sponsor of the OpenStack Design Summit & Conference

Canonical is proud to be one of the headline sponsors of the OpenStack Design Summit & Conference next week in San Francsico. Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth...


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HPCloud to go in public beta with OpenStack on Ubuntu

Six month after starting a private beta for HPCloud, HP has announced this week that their cloud is ready to start scaling up to a public beta next month....

Canonical’s AWSOME bridges Amazon and OpenStack clouds

Canonical’s AWSOME bridges Amazon and OpenStack Clouds Canonical today released for beta testing a new cloud proxy, providing APIs for OpenStack that are also...

Don’t miss the inaugural Ubuntu Cloud Summit

Kicking off this May, the Ubuntu Cloud Summit is a one day event for both technology and business people interested in what cloud computing can do for their...

“Metal as a Service” provisioning tool from Canonical in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS beta

MAAS enables system administrators to provision hyperscale deployments of physical servers, bringing cloud-like semantics for on-demand capacity to the...

Ubuntu big data environment provides new insight into music industry trends

Innovative London tech company Music Metric enables a comprehensive, up-to-the-hour view of artists’ popularity Summary Music Metric, an innovative London...

Mercadolibre builds 1,000-node Ubuntu cloud for IT on demand

Ubuntu and AWS cloud used to capture, protect and monetise data across platforms Summary Mercadolibre has risen to prominence as Latin America’s leading...

Ubuntu User Surveys 2012 – Part 4 and Final

I wanted to know what the reasons were for people choosing Ubuntu. After all there are other better-known choices out there. For the respondents across all...

Ubuntu User Surveys 2012 – Part 3

So as promised let’s take a look a the next set of results from the Ubuntu Survey.  I am going to bundle together the broader world of Ubuntu looking at other...


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