Ubuntu Summit The Register FOSS desk sat down with Canonical's vice-president for engineering, Jon Seager, during Ubuntu Summit earlier this month. This is a heavily condensed version of our ...

As of Canonical’s announcement, Snaps already work on Arch, Debian, and Fedora, as well as the Ubuntu-based Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Unity, and Xubuntu systems ...

Canonical has announced plans to switch all versions of Ubuntu to its new Snappy package manager. The new tool offers the promise of greater stability and security for the system and applications.

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The next release of Ubuntu is slated to arrive in April, but already the developers are making plans for the future of the popular Linux distribution. Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, which ...

When Canonical released Ubuntu 19.10, a lot of attention was paid to Ubuntu continuing its support of the Linux desktop. Fair enough, but what's more important to Ubuntu's bottom line is what this ...

Linux, the powerhouse behind countless servers and desktops worldwide, relies heavily on an initialization (init) system to bootstrap user space and manage system processes after booting.

Going to see if I can put this on my Chromebook, as Linux is pretty much the only thing that makes it worth any use. Look I don't really care how things work under the hood. If this makes things ...

The Ubuntu Live conference began yesterday in Portland Oregon with Mark Shuttleworth's keynote presentation. Shuttleworth, the Ubuntu project's charismatic leader, discussed a wide variety of topics ...