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200 posts from 2014
Sticky notes and a mobile first approach
By Carla Berkers, 20 May 2014
As the number of Juju users has been rapidly increasing over the past year, so has the number of new solutions in the form of charms and bundles. To help...
Making ubuntu.com responsive: scoping the work (6)
By Inayaili de León Persson, 19 May 2014
This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. Following the designers and developers sprint, we had a full web team workshop day to discuss...
Huge downloads for Ubuntu Kylin 14.04 LTS, first OEM partner announced
By Jon Melamut, 15 May 2014
Over the last few months we’ve seen significant traction with Ubuntu Kylin among users and PC hardware manufacturers. Downloads from the Ubuntu Kylin...
The browser is dead. Long live the browser!
By Canonical, 15 May 2014
With the unstoppable rise of mobile apps, some pundits within the tech industry have hastily demoted the mobile web to a second-class citizen, or even...
NUDT and Canonical bring OpenStack to world’s fastest supercomputer
By Canonical, 14 May 2014
China’s National University of Defense Technology, NUDT, developers of the Tianhe-2 supercomputer, and Canonical, the organisation behind Ubuntu, today...
Ubuntu announcements from the Atlanta OpenStack Summit
By Dustin Kirkland, 13 May 2014
Atlanta, Tuesday May 13th 2014 Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and Canonical, made several announcements on stage at the OpenStack Summit today. The...
Jumpstart Training with the Orange Box
By Dustin Kirkland, 13 May 2014
Two full days of technical training, covering Ubuntu, MAAS, Juju, Landscape, and OpenStack. We are delighted to introduce a new delivery mechanism for...
Fast with an extra helping of faster
By Mark Baker, 13 May 2014
Today AMD announced a set of industry benchmark performance records for hyperscale OpenStack running on Ubuntu OpenStack (Icehouse) and AMD’s SeaMicro...
Ubuntu at OpenStack Atlanta
By Mark Baker, 12 May 2014
Canonical has been at every OpenStack Summit contributing to its success. The Juno Summit in Atlanta is no exception and as with previous events we have...
What happens in Vegas doesn’t always stay in Vegas…
By Alejandra Obregon, 9 May 2014
Last week a few of us flew to Las Vegas for a Juju sprint at the world-famous Flamingo casino (where Hunter S. Thompson stayed in Fear and Loathing). It was...
New DVD design for 14.04 LTS
By Tom Macfarlane, 1 May 2014
The new DVD designs feature: Desktop Edition – 14.04 wallpaper – Modified design of the folded paper numerals Server Edition – An integrated, 14 module...
Ubuntu scale out and cloud partner ecosystem expands with IBM POWER8
By John Zannos, 28 April 2014
Public and private cloud adoption has continued to grow, and Canonical has been at the forefront, focusing on scale out and cloud architectures. We have built...