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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
16 July 2015

The monochromatic makeover

Ubuntu Featured

We have given our monochromatic icons a small facelift to make them more elegant, lighter and consistent across the platform by incorporating our Suru language and font style. The rationale behind the new designs are similar to that of our old guidelines, where we have kept to our recurring font patterns but made them more ...


Canonical
15 July 2015

Meteorite BI joins the Charm Partner Programme

Cloud and server Article

  Canonical is excited to announce that Meteorite BI has joined the Charm Partner Programme. Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme helps solution providers make best use of Canonical’s universal service modelling tool, Juju; enabling instant workload deployment, integration, and scaling at the click of a button. Meteroite BI will be contrib ...


Canonical
8 July 2015

Learn About Landscape! ODS Keynote

Cloud and server Videos

In complex computing scenarios, creating a holistic or unified update procedure across multiple clouds and hundreds of separate machines feels like an impossible task. And what do you want to do when your systems estate reaches the thousands, is it possible to automate and simplify cloud management so that thousands of systems can be mana ...


Canonical
7 July 2015

Ubuntu to ship on Lenovo laptops in India

Desktop Article

Lenovo to start shipping Ubuntu preloaded laptops in India starting with the Thinkpad L450 This marks the first joint launch for Canonical and Lenovo in India; building on the strong momentum Ubuntu has already achieved in the region Devices to be largely sold through selected commercial resellers/distributors across India Lenovo will be ...


Canonical
1 July 2015

Incubio joins the Charm Partner Programme

Cloud and server Article

Canonical is excited to announce that Incubio, one of the top three Big Data incubators in the world, has joined the Charm Partner Programme. Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme helps solution providers make the best use of Canonical’s universal service modeling tool, Juju; enabling instant workload deployment, integration, and scaling on ...


Canonical
30 June 2015

Publishing LXD images

Cloud and server Article

While some work remains to be done for ‘lxc publish’, the current support is sufficient to show a full cycle of image workload with lxd.Ubuntu wily comes with systemd by default. Sometimes you might need a wily container with upstart. And to repeatedly reproduce some tests on wily with upstart, you might want to create a container image ...


Canonical
24 June 2015

Ubuntu Fan Images

Cloud and server Article

This week, Dustin Kirkland announced the Ubuntu Fan Project.  To steal from the description, “The Fan is not a software-defined network, and relies on neither distributed databases nor consensus protocols.  Rather, routes are calculated ...


Canonical
24 June 2015

Introducing the Fan – simpler container networking

Cloud and server Article

Canonical just announced a new, free, and very cool way to provide thousands of IP addresses to each of your VMs on AWS. Check out the fan networking on Ubuntu wiki page to get started, or read Dustin’s excellent fan walkthrough. Carry on here for a simple description of this happy little dose of awesome. ...


Canonical
24 June 2015

Meizu Launches the MX4 Ubuntu Edition in Europe

Phone and tablet Article

Meizu MX4 Ubuntu Edition phones will be available for purchase on 25th of June Phones will be available in Europe and by invite only accessed through an interactive origami wall on Meizu’s online site The MX4 Ubuntu Edition was also launched on 17th of May to developers in China Smartphone manufacturer Meizu, in partnership with ...


Canonical
22 June 2015

Get Yourself a BootStack

Cloud and server Article

Canonical offers BootStack as a service to build and operate OpenStack clouds for its customers, with the option to transfer administration of a cloud to the customer, if and when the customer so desires. This means you can get yourself an OpenStack cloud running on your hardware, even on your premises, while we build and ...


Canonical
18 June 2015

Certified Ubuntu images now optimized for Joyent Triton containers

Cloud and server Article

Joyent Expands Triton Elastic Container Infrastructure Beyond Docker, Adds Support for Container-Native Linux on Bare Metal Partners with Canonical to provide certified and supported Ubuntu images, optimized to run natively on bare metal on Triton Infrastructure Containers Joyent Inc., the container-native infrastructure company, today an ...


Canonical
18 June 2015

World’s first 25/100 gigabit open ethernet-based switch launches

Cloud and server Article

Canonical is delighted to support the launch of the world’s first 25/100 Gigabit open Ethernet-based switch, being introduced to the market today by Mellanox® Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX). The new switch runs on ‘Snappy’ Ubuntu Core and will offer a new level of flexibility for network environments.   Mellanox is the leading supplier ...