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Canonical
2 January 2013

Ubuntu comes to the phone, with a beautifully distilled interface and a unique full PC capability when docked

Desktop News

Leading open PC platform with huge global following announces mobile version for network operators, OEMs and silicon vendors Fast, beautiful interface for entry level smartphones Unique PC experience on superphones when docked with a monitor, keyboard and mouse Ubuntu raises the bar for mobile UI design, for richer and more immersive apps ...


Canonical
19 December 2012

Four new hot indie games arrive in Ubuntu Software Center

Ubuntu Desktop

The Humble Indie Bundle 7 is in the Ubuntu Software Center and just in time for some holiday gaming. The masterful indie games coming to Ubuntu this time are Closure, Shank 2, Snapshot and Legend of Grimrock. These games debut in Ubuntu thanks to the Humble Indie Bundle 7 which is our favorite cross platform, ...


Canonical
14 December 2012

Top 10 questions about Ubuntu

Cloud and server Article

It’s the end of the year, we met with lots of people from all around the world, at various conferences and events and wherever they were from and whatever their role in IT was, the same questions always seem to come back. So we thought we’d list the top 10 questions we get, here, for ...


nickbarcet
12 December 2012

To prepare for the hybrid future, try OpenStack now

Cloud and server Article

Nigel Beighton, International VP of Technology, Rackspace Cloud computing is changing everything we know. Immense mathematical problems like the sequencing of the human genome and the discovery of the Higgs Boson simply wouldn’t have been solved without access to massive computing power, precisely when it was needed. Closer to home, the m ...


Mark Baker
10 December 2012

Juju GUI for visual cloud orchestration

Ubuntu Server

As clouds for IT infrastructure become commonplace, admins and devops need quick, easy ways of deploying and orchestrating cloud services.  As we mentioned in October, Ubuntu now has a GUI for Juju, the service orchestration tool for server and cloud. In this post we wanted to expand a bit more on how Juju makes it ...


Canonical
7 December 2012

Searching in the Dash in Ubuntu 13.04

Ubuntu Desktop

The Ubuntu 12.10 release saw the Dash take another important step towards fulfilling its intended purpose of being an online, global search tool that helps users find anything, instantly, right from their home environment. There are a number of exciting improvements planned for 13.04 that will make the Dash more comprehensive, more online ...


Canonical
4 December 2012

Windows 8 part 3: Don’t let legacy apps block the benefits of open source

Desktop Article

Hidden away in the dark corner of every business there are monsters that scare the bejesus out of many an IT manager. They are little legacy applications, often unsupported by their creators, running on old spreadsheets, an ageing Access database or arcane Word macros. Now, big legacy applications, the kind that big businesses rely on, ...


Canonical
4 December 2012

How will consumerisation of personal devices affect the choice of OS?

Desktop News

Best of our webinars – (Relates to content in this webinar) Along with the cloud, one of the big trends in corporate IT in recent years is the consumerisation of personal computing. Telecoms contracts have made smartphones affordable for nearly everyone, encouraging many business people to start using their iPhone or Google Android device ...


Canonical
30 November 2012

Design and arts in education

Ubuntu Notes

Ubuntu’s design team supports #includedesign, which is a important initiative – supported by many design organizations and companies. ...


Canonical
29 November 2012

Sputnik – Dell’s Ubuntu-based developer laptop is here

Ubuntu Partners

Ubuntu has long been a favourite with developers – especially in the worlds of web and cloud development. We’re excited that, from today, serious (and not-so-serious) developers will be able to get their hands on the super-sleek Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition, preloaded with and fully optimised for Ubuntu. The Dell XPS 13 is a ...


Canonical
29 November 2012

Ubuntu and BitNami

Cloud and server Videos

Learn why BitNami uses Ubuntu on Amazon Web Services to help developers adapt their applications to work on the desktop, the server and the cloud. ...