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Canonical
20 April 2009

Canonical announces availability of Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop Edition

Desktop News

Faster boot speed, enhanced application suite and more visual appeal — give users more reasons than ever to choose Ubuntu Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu,announced today that Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop Edition is free to download from Thursday 23 April. Also announced were the simultaneous releases of Ubuntu 9.04 Server Edition and U ...


Canonical
20 April 2009

Canonical announces availability of Ubuntu 9.04 Server Edition

Ubuntu News

Canonical, the sponsor of Ubuntu, announced today that Ubuntu 9.04 Server Edition is available to download from Thursday 23 April. Canonical offers assessment, deployment, migration, training and support services to ensure that companies can make the most of the cost-effective, powerful and reliable Ubuntu Server Edition platform. Ubuntu ...


Canonical
16 April 2009

New, shiny, condensed and hugely effective: The new Ubuntu Certified Professional course

Ubuntu Canonical News

The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) has recently (April 1st) updated its LPIC1 objectives significantly to come in line with advancements made over the past four years. This provides Canonical with the opportunity to readdress the Ubuntu Certified Professional (UCP) certification. As such, new UCP certification objectives have been fin ...


Chris Kenyon
8 April 2009

Microsoft, FUD and the netbook market

Ubuntu Desktop

Microsoft, FUD and the netbook market Brandon Le Blanc from Microsoft posted an interesting post about Netbooks and Linux last week. While we agreed with his comments about customers wanting choice and looking for outstanding hardware options, we disagree with much of his analysis and unsurprisingly the overall ‘spin’ of the post. While F ...


Canonical
23 March 2009

Ubuntu Server Edition – Updates from the Canonical Training Camp

Ubuntu Canonical News

Following the growing success of Ubuntu Server Edition, and in response to requests from both students and partners, Canonical has now launched an Ubuntu Server-dedicated course, called ‘Deploying Ubuntu in the Enterprise Environment’. This five-day course is designed for intermediate-to-advanced system administrators working in organisat ...


Canonical
23 March 2009

Ubuntu 7.10 reaches end-of-life on April 18, 2009

Desktop News

Ubuntu announced the release of 7.10 almost 18 months ago, on October 18, 2007. As with the earlier releases, Ubuntu committed to ongoing security and critical fixes for a period of 18 months. The support period is now nearing its end and Ubuntu 7.10 will reach end of life on Saturday, April 18, 2008. At ...


Canonical
16 February 2009

HP and Canonical work towards Ubuntu certification on servers

Ubuntu Server

Moving Ubuntu into the enterprise, especially on the server, has been a significant undertaking. While the Ubuntu Server Edition has been around since late 2005, it really came into its own in mid 2006 with Ubuntu 6.06LTS — the first Long Term Supported version. The LTS versions are released every two years and supported for ...


Canonical
16 February 2009

Ubuntu Training Strengthened in the USA

Ubuntu Canonical News

Canonical has recently signed and trained up instructors from Fast Lane and Bridge Education, the  latest two partners to join the Ubuntu Training Partner Programme. Ubuntu courses are now available in many locations across the USA. Two, 5 day courses which form part of the Ubuntu Certified Professional certification train System Administ ...


Canonical
4 February 2009

Redmonk and Ubuntu survey: results are in!

Ubuntu Server

Over the last two months Canonical and the Ubuntu server community ran a user survey to delve into the detail of Ubuntu server use. You can see the original launch plan here. The audience was self-selecting; we promoted it through the Ubuntu website and some other popular Linux server forums. Our friends at the analyst ...


Canonical
16 December 2008

Ubuntu Server on Amazon Beta

Ubuntu Article

We have just announced our beta of Ubuntu Server Edition for cloud computing. It uses Amazon’s established cloud service EC2. We’re supplying customised images that are quick to deploy and efficient in production. The images are based on Ubuntu Server Edition so have the same great security, performance, reliability and range of applicati ...


Canonical
26 November 2008

Viva o Ubuntu Training no Brazil!

Ubuntu Canonical News

Canonical has signed up its first Authorised Training Partner in Brazil. Based in Recife, Fuctura has been an open source training house and avid Ubuntu supporter for some years now. Their instructors have just completed a three day ‘Train The Trainer’ session by Canonical, preparing them to teach the Ubuntu courses in the manner and ...