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Ubuntu Touch SDK beta

Today we are announcing the Ubuntu SDK Beta. The SDK provides a set of APIs that includes the UI toolkit, enabling developers to create responsive and interactive applications with a native Ubuntu mobile UI. Qt Creator is an IDE with a visual interface for writing, testing and deploy applications; its API documentation and a developer

Could your startup use some cloud magic?

As a small startup, it’s frustrating to watch the big companies pushing code to production multiple times a day. In an ideal world we’d all be able to continuously deploy, but few startups have the time or skills required. That’s where we’d like to help. We’re looking to collaborate with startups in building a best-in-class

Ubuntu Edge

Canonical targets crowdfunding record with campaign to accelerate mobile technology with Ubuntu Edge superphone / PC combination $32m campaign to deliver world’s first truly converged personal computing device based on Ubuntu phone OS and pioneering hardware. Ubuntu Edge harnesses crowdfunding to accelerate innovation in smartphone and co

Juju GUI for continuous deployment/integration and cloud orchestration

Juju, the leading tool for continuous deployment, continuous integration (CI/CD), and cloud-neutral orchestration, now has a refreshed GUI with smoother workflows for integration professionals spinning up many services across clouds like Amazon EC2 and a range of public OpenStack providers. The new GUI speeds up service design – conceptua

Juju GUI for continuous deployment / integration and cloud orchestration

Juju, the leading tool for continuous deployment, continuous integration (CI/CD), and cloud-neutral orchestration, now has a refreshed GUI with smoother workflows for integration professionals spinning up many services across clouds like Amazon EC2 and a range of public OpenStack providers. The new GUI speeds up service design – conceptua

Notice of security breach on Ubuntu Forums site

There has been a security breach on the Ubuntu Forums site, ubuntuforums.org. We take information security and user privacy very seriously, and apologise for the breach and ensuing inconvenience. At this time, We have confirmed the attackers were able to access all user email addresses and hashed passwords on the Forums site. While the pa

Ratnadeep Bhattacharjee joins Canonical

We are pleased to announce a seriously good addition to the our product team: Ratnadeep (Deep) Bhattacharjee. Deep joins Canonical as Director of Cloud Product Management from VMware where he led its Cloud Infrastructure Platform effort and has a solid understanding of customer needs as they continue to move to virtual and cloud infrastru

Shorts visual exploration

Hey After all the work we have done on the Rituals app designs it was time to start exploring other core apps. I thought it would be good to share with you our recent exploration of the RSS Reader App. Please note that those are only the key screens and settings are not covered yet.


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OpenStack is 3

In April at the OpenStack Summit, Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth quipped “My OpenStack, how you’ve grown” as a reference to the thousands of people in the room. OpenStack is indeed growing up and it seems incredible that this Friday, we celebrate OpenStacks’ 3rd Birthday. Incredible – it seems like only yesterday OpenStack was a twin

MTN Group joins Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group

The newest member of Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group is MTN Group, Africa’s largest multinational mobile telecoms provider operating in 21 countries across the region. MTN has a significant number of  business customers who can benefit from Ubuntu’s convergence and security capabilities. Pieter Verkade, Chief Commercial Officer at MTN Group

See your photos and illustrations in Ubuntu 13.10

Each cycle we get together as a community to select some fine default wallpapers for the new release of Ubuntu. Your pictures and illustrations could be in the 13.10!

Verizon Wireless joins Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group

Verizon Wireless is the latest member to join the Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group. Verizon Wireless is the largest mobile network operator in the US and being able to work closely with them gives us an opportunity to shape Ubuntu into the most compelling new, alternative platform for mobile.  Samir Vaidya from the Device Technology team

China Unicom joins Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group

We’re delighted that China Unicom has joined the Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group to shape the priorities of the Ubuntu team delivering our mobile experience. China Unicom is among the world’s largest mobile operators and has nearly 300 million mobile subscribers. Li Xingxin at China Unicom’s terminal research and support center comments; “U

HP ProLiant Ubuntu Server download

Welcome to HP customers Thank you for choosing Ubuntu and purchasing your support from HP. This page is where you can download your Ubuntu Server software and learn more how Ubuntu can work for you. Download Ubuntu Server* * Please note 12.04 LTS is the HP supported version. Ubuntu Server — for scale out computing

Technical guide for HP laptops

Modifying any technical settings puts your data at risk, so we strongly recommend you contact an HP service centre for guidance (call +91 9696 153 153 or email upic_hpsupport@hp.com). If you must make changes yourself, please read this guide carefully beforehand. It answers the following common questions: How do I create a bootable device

Smartfren joins Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group

Today we can announce PT Smartfren Telecom as the newest member of the Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group. The CAG is a forum for mobile operators to influence the development of Ubuntu for smartphones. Smartfren is the largest mobile internet provider in Indonesia, an important market for the Ubuntu smartphone. Richard Tan Deputy CEO at Smart


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