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153 posts from 2012
Watch out for Ubuntu! The E-Pebble smartwatch
By Canonical, 19 April 2012
In the year 2000 IBM showed off the WatchPad, a computer on your wrist, but one perhaps ahead of its time and still needing a little bit of design-love. Of...
Berlin: Typobau: Ubuntu Arabic Ausstellung/Exhibition
By Canonical, 19 April 2012
Some of original sketches for Ubuntu Arabic are about to go on display in Berlin! We’ve talked before about the work done by Rayan Abdullah on drawing and...
Configuring Keystone in OpenStack (Essex)
By Canonical, 16 April 2012
Keystone is an identity service written in Python that provides a pluggable back end, designed to support various protocols for authentication and...
System status menu refinements in Ubuntu 12.10
By Matthew Paul Thomas, 13 April 2012
For Ubuntu 12.04, we’re planning to merge the user and system menus, make major changes to the messaging menu, introduce a new sync menu, and retire the...
Canonical is Headline Sponsor of the OpenStack Design Summit & Conference
By Cezzaine Zaher, 13 April 2012
Canonical is proud to be one of the headline sponsors of the OpenStack Design Summit & Conference next week in San Francsico. Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth...
HPCloud to go in public beta with OpenStack on Ubuntu
By nickbarcet, 13 April 2012
Six month after starting a private beta for HPCloud, HP has announced this week that their cloud is ready to start scaling up to a public beta next month....
Canonical’s AWSOME bridges Amazon and OpenStack clouds
By Canonical, 13 April 2012
Canonical’s AWSOME bridges Amazon and OpenStack Clouds Canonical today released for beta testing a new cloud proxy, providing APIs for OpenStack that are also...
Don’t miss the inaugural Ubuntu Cloud Summit
By Cezzaine Zaher, 5 April 2012
Kicking off this May, the Ubuntu Cloud Summit is a one day event for both technology and business people interested in what cloud computing can do for their...
“Metal as a Service” provisioning tool from Canonical in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS beta
By Canonical, 4 April 2012
MAAS enables system administrators to provision hyperscale deployments of physical servers, bringing cloud-like semantics for on-demand capacity to the...
Ubuntu big data environment provides new insight into music industry trends
By Canonical, 2 April 2012
Innovative London tech company Music Metric enables a comprehensive, up-to-the-hour view of artists’ popularity Summary Music Metric, an innovative London...
Mercadolibre builds 1,000-node Ubuntu cloud for IT on demand
By Canonical, 2 April 2012
Ubuntu and AWS cloud used to capture, protect and monetise data across platforms Summary Mercadolibre has risen to prominence as Latin America’s leading...
Ubuntu User Surveys 2012 – Part 4 and Final
By Canonical, 29 March 2012
I wanted to know what the reasons were for people choosing Ubuntu. After all there are other better-known choices out there. For the respondents across all...