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Canonical produces Ubuntu, provides commercial services for Ubuntu's users, and works with hardware manufacturers, software vendors and cloud partners to certify Ubuntu.


Canonical
10 December 2013

More options for app development in Ubuntu on phones with Apache Cordova

Phone and tablet Article

Canonical opens the doors to over 400,000 web developers with the announcement that Apache Cordova 3.3 will support Ubuntu. This makes it really easy for developers to bring their existing Cordova mobile apps to Ubuntu on smartphones. PhoneGap is a mobile application development framework, based on the open source Apache Cordova project. ...


Canonical
9 December 2013

Open source economics | Ubuntu at Le Web 2013, Paris

Phone and tablet Article

Cost and influence on product development are widely accepted and essential considerations when bringing innovative technological products to market. Today community is a new and equally important factor. Conventional wisdom is that open source delivers the best results in all cases, so why isn’t true openness playing a bigger role in the ...


Canonical
9 December 2013

Pioneering community develops app for Evernote

Phone and tablet News

Over 300 Ubuntu community developers registered their interest and willingness to work on the open-source Evernote-powered app for Ubuntu on phones, following a call for members back in September. A team of 10 have been finalised and work has begun, the scope of the project defined and initial wireframes designed. This project is pioneeri ...


Canonical
5 December 2013

App Design Clinic #6

Ubuntu Notes

We have been running the app design clinic every two weeks to answer any questions from community designers and developers on the apps they are working on! For this session we talked about the community submitted convergence designs for file manager and clock app (thanks everyone!) as well as answering some questions from our Canonical ...


Canonical
5 December 2013

The next decade of innovation | Ubuntu at Le Web 2013, Paris

Cloud and server Article

Over the last decade, we’ve seen the arrival of the first smartphones, tablets, smart TVs and other connected devices; the Web completely transformed with the introduction of the likes of Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia; cloud services, music and video streaming were all introduced; millions of apps were developed; and the combination of all ...


Canonical
4 December 2013

Ubuntu helps millions of Indian students to learn

Desktop Case study

Ubuntu and its hardware partners like HP are at the forefront of supplying computers to Indian students. Government in India understands that IT literacy will help drive the already fast-growing Indian economy into the sustainably profitable knowledge-based sectors vital for its future.  To enable this transformation they’ve invested in c ...


Canonical
4 December 2013

The Weather Channel comes to Ubuntu on smartphones

Phone and tablet News

The Ubuntu phone is developing fast. Today, it includes all the functionality you’d expect from a smartphone and, with growing support from App partners, relevant apps will be included on Ubuntu smartphones from launch. We’re working with The Weather Channel to ensure its popular weather app will available for Ubuntu users from the moment ...


Canonical
3 December 2013

App Design Clinic #5

Ubuntu Notes

Over the last few months we have been running the App Design Clinic and we want to thank you for all your submissions, contribution and feedback! The Design Clinic happens every two weeks and the last one co-incided with vUDS, so we included more information on general app design as well as answering quesitons. Here’s ...


Canonical
2 December 2013

vUDS November: Design Track sum up!

Ubuntu User Experience

On 19-21 November we had our vUDS where we got to discuss and share with the community some of the design work we’ve been doing recently. Our topics ranged from our design blog to convergence designs to Juju GUI cloud to icon designs! If you missed any of our sessions, don’t worry. They are all ...


Canonical
26 November 2013

Asus and Ubuntu deliver affordable world-class laptops to USA Education

Desktop Article

A quiet revolution is taking place in the global education sector: more and more institutions and students are discovering the value of the Ubuntu operating system. In the USA, Ubuntu partner ASUS has added to its long line of Ubuntu laptops.  The X201E and 1015E  are high-quality, affordable Ubuntu laptops, perfect for education. As Ubun ...


Canonical
19 November 2013

MAAS and Juju in a VM on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS – Part 2

Cloud and server Article

Enterprise environments rely on Ubuntu’s LTS (Long-term Support) release.   Its established two year release cadence and five year security and maintenance updates means sysadmins and developers can plan updates and migrations in advance. So it comes at no surprise, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is the leading reference operating system for OpenStack ...


Canonical
18 November 2013

Video: Ubuntu Cloud technologies on Dell PowerEdge servers

Cloud and server Videos

This video published by the DellTechCenter shows the optimisation of Ubuntu’s cloud technologies, “Juju” and “MAAS”, as used with the Dell PowerEdge servers. Canonical’s Kent Baxley and Dell’s Jose De La Rosa, are the two experienced engineers who have been interviewed. ...