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Ade Malsasa Akbar Friday, July 3, 2020 at 17:15

Ubuntu Phone Recap 2020

I found my community at Mastodon. They share a lot about Ubuntu Phone - particularly Ubuntu Touch operating system and its current maintainer The UBPorts Project and the hardware maker PINE64. Fortunately unexpected, two interesting things come - the arrival of Volla and also Fairphone which want to be the next Ubuntu Phone and powered with the Touch. These are interesting to cover in a short summary so this article is for you who are interested in Ubuntu Phone once again. Let's go!

(Ubuntu Phones - photo by Ernmander from Mastodon published January this year republished here with his permission)

Damar Riyadi Sunday, July 22, 2012 at 12:50

Top 10 Ubuntu App Downloads for June 2012

Canonical has published top 10 applications download from Ubuntu Software Center. The most appreciated applications are games from Humble Indie Bundle V. Below are the complete list of top 10 applications download from both paid applications and the free ones.

Aamir Mustafa Friday, June 15, 2012 at 12:08

The Ubuntu App Showdown: Invent an App for Ubuntu and win exciting prizes

Canonical is organizing a contest called 'the Ubuntu App Showdown' to create an app from scratch for Ubuntu in three weeks, and delivered in the Ubuntu Software Centre.

The best apps will win some awesome prizes from System76 and Qt including a System76 Gazelle Professional laptop and Nokia N9 phone for the gold prize, a System76 Lemur Ultra laptop and Nokia N9 phone for the silver prize and a Nokia N9 phone for the bronze prize.

After the contest the community will vote on all of the apps in the Ubuntu Software Centre.

Aamir Mustafa Monday, June 11, 2012 at 12:33

Canonical partners with Microsoft to support Ubuntu on Azure

Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth praised Azure as an "impressive new entrant."

Microsoft revealed yesterday that its Azure cloud computing service is extending support to the open source Linux operating system. And in a blog entry this afternoon, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth announced that Canonical is working with Microsoft to support the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution on the Azure platform.
Canonical will supply official Ubuntu images for Azure and will provide its commercial support services to customers that are deploying Ubuntu in Microsoft’s cloud. After an Azure update that is coming in the fall, users will be able to purchase a Canonical support contract directly through Microsoft’s Azure Gallery.

Aamir Mustafa Monday, May 28, 2012 at 03:09

Mark Shuttleworth wins IEEE Sanuse Software Award

At the 4th Software Engineering Colloquium in Cape Town in May 2012, the IEEE Computer Society recognised South African software entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Thawte and Ubuntu, and design and strategy lead at Canonical, for his outstanding contribution to the South African software industry.

Here is a quick reaction from Mark Shuttleworth for winning the prestigious award.

Aamir Mustafa Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 15:58

Ubuntu for Android Is much more than what we thought about it

In a recently release video demo of Ubuntu for Android from canonical, Ubuntu for Android looks even more promising than a converged Mobile Phone and a Desktop PC.

It can also be transformed to the Ubuntu TV once docked to a TV through HDMI port. So your Smart Phone is not only a full fledged desktop inside your pocket but a Media center too.

Aamir Mustafa Friday, February 10, 2012 at 22:24

Ubuntu Business Desktop Remix

Ubuntu Business Desktop Remix is a starting point for large-scale corporate desktop deployments. It is inspired by a review of common changes made by IT departments deploying Ubuntu at scale.

Ubuntu Business Desktop Remix is the newest enterprise ready spin of Ubuntu announced today by Mark Shuttleworth on his website.

Ubuntu Business Desktop Remix is built with enterprise oriented software such as VMWare, OpenJDk, Adobe Flash and getting rid with unnecessary software such as games, file sharing and social networking apps like Gwibber etc. The first release of Ubuntu Business Desktop Remix is based on 11.10 Onieric Ocelot.

Aamir Mustafa Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 20:44

Kubuntu: No longer a Canonical's flagship distribution!

Jonathan Riddell, lead developer for the Kubuntu project and the only guy employed by Canonical to work on the KDE variant of the popular distribution, has announced that after the 12.04 release, Canonical will no longer pay him for developing KDE variant of Ubuntu, putting Kubuntu on the same level as other Ubuntu variants like Xubuntu, Edubuntu, Mythbuntu etc. which are already community driven projects.