These days, it often feels like an operating system is only as cool as its “apps” — which are separate from applications, mind you. And so it’s not surprising to see Canonical pushing hard to deliver more apps to Ubuntu users, an effort highlighted most recently by the upcoming AppsSprint.
Today, July 19th, at O’Reilly OSCON 2012 Mark Shuttleworth revealed a new feature that will be implemented in the upcoming Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) operating system, called Ubuntu Web Apps. As you can see from the video below, presented by Canonical, Ubuntu Web Apps allows Ubuntu users to run online apps, such as Twitter, GMail,... (read more)
Yesterday, Canonical founder, Mark Shuttleworth, announced that Canonical is aiming for 200 million Ubuntu users in four years.
Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth says parts of Ubuntu 13.04 will be kept a secret, out of the public eye until its unveiling.
The move, which he writes about on his blog, will sure to create a firestorm in the Ubuntu community, which has in the past rained criticism on Unity, the interface Canonical developed for Ubuntu two years ago.
Hoping to put to rest the swirling controversy around Ubuntu 12.10′s integration of Amazon.com search results into the Unity desktop interface, Canonical has published an official summary of its efforts to resolve user complaints.
Canonical is doing its best to improve the company’s image, along with Ubuntu’s.
What is the relationship between ubuntu and QT and Canonical? The coming ubuntu phone looks interesting. ubuntu seems to be interwoven with QT. If my company wants to write commercial c++ apps calling QT (or ubuntu) libraries that my company has not unmodified, then I do NOT have to provide my company created source code with the app, correct? Thanks!
Canonical has suffered more than a little flack over the years for what some critics call a lack of openness in Ubuntu development. But if one agrees with Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth, the truly closed platforms are Ubuntu’s competitors, especially Red Hat. At least, that’s what Shuttleworth had to say recently on his blog.
Canonical releases source code for Launchpad
Release of Launchpad to encourage innovation
London
July 21, 2009: Canonical, the founder of the Ubuntu project, announced
today that it has open-sourced the code that runs Launchpad, the
software development and collaboration platform used by tens of
thousands of developers.
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