So, on November 5th at the OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong, Ubuntu announced the creation of "Ubuntu OpenStack Interoperability Lab" (OIL) with such powerhouse partners as Cisco, Dell, EMC, HP, IBM, ...

Up-and-Coming Open Source Projects for the Enterprise With a major migration to OpenStack and other cloud management frameworks starting to get under way in earnest, it’s now once again almost anybody ...

That's because at the same time that Canonical makes its semi-annual desktop play, and starting its attempt to grab some of the mobile market with Ubuntu Touch, it will also be released with the ...

The combination of Ubuntu and OpenStack for deploying private clouds is a match made in heaven for several reasons. Ubuntu serves as the most popular operating system on OpenStack deployments, thanks ...

Software giant Canonical and chip designer ARM have extended their partnership to enable more products to run on ARM-based infrastructure. Canonical had previously offered a version of Ubuntu for ...

Canonical has just shipped Utopic Unicorn, the latest version of its Ubuntu Server operating system. And while it isn’t quite the Promised Land of operating systems that the name suggests (there are ...

Canonical today announced that the next version of Ubuntu, 15.04 Vivid Vervet, will be available for download on Thursday. This release introduces a couple of new features for desktop users, but most ...

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Canonical has launched its sixth long term support (LTS) release of its Linux distribution Ubuntu. Jane Silber, Canonical’s CEO, described the arrival of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS as “exciting and special” ...

Canonical's new Linux distribution unveils its LXD container runtime, which offers the best features of both containers and VMs Later this week Canonical will debut a new rev of Ubuntu that features ...

Like with most standards, the way the emerging OpenStack cloud management framework can be implemented is open to a fair amount of interpretation. For that reason, a lot of IT organizations ...