Tag Archives: long term support

Canonical’s AWSOME API bridges OpenStack and Amazon clouds, Ubuntu has its head in both

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New features and services that improve Canonical’s latest version of Ubuntu seem to keep rolling in. The latest addition being the announcement of its AWSOME proxy service. No, that’s not us getting over excited about it, that stands for Any Web Servi…


Ubuntu’s ‘Precise Pangolin’ emerges into Beta, enjoys the fresh air (video)

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So, it looks like Precise Pangolin has just crawled out of its Alpha hiding hole, and into the open plains of Beta testing. The Beta 1 version of Ubuntu 12.04 is available to download today, and Beta 2 is already in the crosshairs, one month from now….


Canonical gets a little more precise about what’s in store for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

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Look, codenames are all fine and dandy, but we want the meat — we want to know exactly what Precise Pangolin has in store. Specifics are still a little hard to come by, but there were some tidbits out of the Ubuntu Developer Summit. For one, Canoni…


Ubuntu turns 7, Canonical gets to work on Precise Pangolin

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It was exactly seven years ago today that Warty Warthog, the very first release of Ubuntu (despite its 4.10 version number), hit the Internet and became and almost instant success. In those years Canonical has built the world’s most popular desktop …