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Photos: Ubuntu unleashes the Karmic Koala
Photo Want to know how Ubuntu 9.10 will look once installed? Ubuntu One is found in the Places menu and the status of the service is shown by the cloud in the applet section in the top right.... [29 Oct 2009]
Amazon will be king of the cloud: Mark Shuttleworth
News Canonical chief Mark Shuttleworth has said Amazon will emerge as triumphant in the battle for the cloud. Shuttleworth told a BT open source event yesterday that Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, or a closely related platform, will become... [06 Oct 2009]
Ubuntu-using small businesses get a helping hand with helpdesk support
News Canonical has launched support services for individual and small-business users of the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution. The company, which sponsors Ubuntu, already sold helpdesk services for enterprise... [04 Aug 2009]
Microsoft after Gates, Google Chrome, ID cards, printer woes and more
News Renai LeMay debates the Chrome vs Ubuntu question here. Ubuntu vs Chrome was not the only epic battle being waged in July: silicon.com's futurist columnist Peter Cochrane may know more about wireless... [03 Aug 2009]
Google's Chrome OS: On the frontline of the new operating system war
News Chrome OS: What Google can do, Ubuntu does better Google is developing its own PC operating system in its latest attempt to move into a new market and threaten established rivals. Chrome, which shares its name with... [09 Jul 2009]
Chrome OS: What Google can do, Ubuntu does better
Comment Out of the ferocious Linux distribution wars, one contender has emerged with the seeming strength to take on the rest; at least when it comes to the Linux desktop platform: Ubuntu. If you attend conferences like... [08 Jul 2009]
"Whatever you do, please DON'T DOWNLOAD THEM"
News A Google spokesman said the Linux version supported only the Debian and Ubuntu incarnations of Linux, and the Mac OS X version only works on Intel-based Macs. Google released Chrome for Mac OS X and Linux Thursday - but... [05 Jun 2009]
Low-Cost Virtualization With Ubuntu Server Edition 7.10 and VMware Server 1.05 on IBM BladeCenter Servers
White Paper As demand for power and cooling within datacenters increases, more companies are looking for ways to reduce the amount of hardware required to run their business. Moving computing hardware to higher density, yet more manageable and... [29 May 2009]
'Android-powered netbooks coming this year'
News According to market watchers Ovum, Google's mobile OS could become the platform of choice for lower-end mini laptops, rather than full-fat flavours of Linux traditionally associated with the desktop, such as Ubuntu. [18 Mar 2009]
Ubuntu's Karmic Koala will make 'cloud dance'
News Extensive cloud computing functionality will be built into Karmic Koala, the next version but one of Ubuntu, sponsor company Canonical has announced. Canonical chief Mark Shuttleworth introduced Karmic Koala on Friday,... [23 Feb 2009]
HP netbook ditches Linux
News HP is selling the Mini 1000 Mobile Internet Experience (MIE) edition, which uses a customised version of Ubuntu Linux and is aimed at home-entertainment use, in the US. HP has dropped Linux as an operating-system option... [06 Feb 2009]
Sub-$200 netbooks on the cards from Freescale
News The design also incorporates a new power management integrated circuit from Freescale, as well as Adobe Flash Lite and the netbook version of Canonical's Ubuntu Linux distribution. Cammal also claimed Freescale's... [06 Jan 2009]
Ubuntu Eye for the Debian Guy: Running Linux on Linux
White Paper The aim of this paper is to present my experience building and running two separate UML instances of Ubuntu distributions. For Debian users like the author, it can serve as a starting point for understanding UML's... [24 Dec 2008]
Google takes on Windows by going Native Client
News Rumours have abounded over the years about a Google operating system, perhaps based on the Ubuntu version of Linux widely used within the company, but on Monday the company revealed an open source project that provides a... [09 Dec 2008]
Sun launches second version of OpenSolaris
News Sun has launched the second release of OpenSolaris, incorporating a number of improvements aimed at making it more competitive with desktop-orientated Linux distributions such as Canonical's Ubuntu. OpenSolaris is Sun's... [08 Dec 2008]
