If Canonical succeeds in making Ubuntu Linux widespread on phones and tablets, it will revolutionize the role of open-source software in mobile computing. But in a sense, the company has already achieved some remarkably revolutionary feats with Mir, t…

A few days ago, Canonical reiterated its commitment to restoring the Ubuntu “community” Web portal to front-and-center of official Ubuntu websites. At almost the same moment, news hit that the Ubuntu Technical Board has decided to discontinue the Ubuntu Brainstorm site, another part of ubuntu.com that has served in the past as a vector between [...]

As Canonical works to make Ubuntu popular on tablets and smartphones, it is also keen to keep the peace with its users, as updates to official Ubuntu websites show.read more
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Why is Canonical (Ubuntu’s backer) promoting the new support that Ceph, the distributed storage system for Big Data from Inktank, now offers for Red Hat Enterprise Linux?read more Read more at The VAR Guy

Apple iOS and Google Android remain the dominant operating systems for smartphones and tablets. But alternatives like Canonical’s Ubuntu and Firefox OS are hoping to disrupt the mobile market — despite the stark reality that even Microsoft and Blackberry are having trouble in the market. read more Read more at The VAR Guy

Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth told The VAR Guy that mobile and cloud computing are equally important to Ubuntu’s long-term success as a Linux distribution. Plus, he said, the world wants a Google Android alternative. read more Read more at The VAR Guy

Ubuntu 13.10, codenamed the Saucy Salamander, will debut officially in October 2013, according to Canonical CEO and Linux advocate Mark Shuttleworth.
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Ubuntu has changed a lot since its early days, as we noted earlier this week.  So, too, has what we could call the Ubuntu brand, or the image of the operating system as Canonical presents it to the world.  And with Ubuntu 13.04 about to debut in just a couple days, this seems like a [...]

Even as Canonical forges ahead to make Unity the basis of Ubuntu for PCs, phones, tablets and TVs, Linux backer is once again officially supporting GNOME.
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Dell’s not the only big-name channel partner with which Canonical, the company that develops Ubuntu Linux, has been forging closer ties lately. read more Read more at The VAR Guy

Despite all the technical and commercial hurdles, Canonical is well on its way to transforming Ubuntu for mobile devices into the real deal.  For proof, look no further than the rapidly maturing application stack for touch-enabled hardware that b…

Despite Microsoft’s potential $2 billion loan to Dell, the PC giant is introducing new Ubuntu Linux options on its Alienware gaming PCs. read more Read more at The VAR Guy

Ubuntu 13.04, the latest Linux distribution upgrade from Canonical, arrives April 25. Code-named Raring Ringtail, here’s what to expect from the new Ubuntu release. read more Read more at The VAR Guy

If HP Moonshot servers catch on with customers, Canonical’s Ubuntu Linux distribution could gain upward momentum. read more Read more at The VAR Guy

Canonical, in concert with the Chinese government and local developers, is building an Ubuntu-based, open source operating system for China. China, with a population of some 1.3 billion people, is without doubt the mother lode of operating system markets in terms of number of potential users, with the potential to cascade a dramatic expansion in [...]

Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) has extended its Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) software to support Windows 8 and Ubuntu 12.04. That’s a reasonable vote of confidence from Oracle toward Microsoft’s latest operating system as well as Canonical’s Linux alternative. But the interesting news for VARs and MSPs involves Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c, a systems management platform that can [...]

In what appears to be a growing penchant among open source developers for naming things after Soviet spacecraft, Canonical recently announced a new project called Mir. And while it doesn’t actually have much (or anything) to do with outer space, it could have major implications for open source user interfaces throughout the channel–not to mention [...]

ownCloud, the open source platform for syncing and sharing data, has gained a slew of new features with the release of the latest version of ownCloud Community Edition. From usability tweaks to security enhancements, the tool is now in a stronger position than ever to compete with rivals such as Dropbox in the very tight [...]

Back around July 2012, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) predicted big things from a new round of products — Windows 8, tablets, Phone 8, Office 365, Office 2013. In fact, Microsoft compared its current product refresh cycle to 1995, when Windows 95 and Office 95 triggered a sales boom. Soon after Windows NT 4.0 took enterprise servers [...]

It’s easy to assume, from the stunning rate at which OEMs roll out newer and better versions of PCs, phones, tablets and other popular hardware, that few consumers want to hold on to aging devices. But if a new community-based spinoff of Ubuntu named LXLE is any indication, there are those who are, in fact, [...]