So, on November 5th at the OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong, Ubuntu announced the creation of "Ubuntu OpenStack Interoperability Lab" (OIL) with such powerhouse partners as Cisco, Dell, EMC, HP, IBM, ...

No matter if users had dozens, or thousands, of CPU cores in their cloud, most preferrred Ubuntu. It was followed by the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) clone CentOS, which is now part of the Red Hat ...

Canonical has launched its sixth long term support (LTS) release of its Linux distribution Ubuntu. Jane Silber, Canonical’s CEO, described the arrival of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS as “exciting and special” ...

The OpenStack PaaS market is heating up, with Ubuntu teaming up with Pivotal on a version of Cloud Foundry for OpenStack. Canonical’s founder Mark Shuttleworth made the announcement today in Hong Kong ...

Software giant Canonical and chip designer ARM have extended their partnership to enable more products to run on ARM-based infrastructure. Canonical had previously offered a version of Ubuntu for ...

With a major migration to OpenStack and other cloud management frameworks starting to get under way in earnest, it’s now once again almost anybody’s ball game in terms of who winds up dominating the ...

Canonical's new Linux distribution unveils its LXD container runtime, which offers the best features of both containers and VMs Later this week Canonical will debut a new rev of Ubuntu that features ...

A survey of OpenStack users, done by members of the OpenStack Foundation has found that Ubuntu is by far the most widely used operating system with OpenStack, not Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS ...

A couple of weeks ago a mini storm erupted in the open source and OpenStack communities when news broke that Red Hat was refusing to support Linux customers who used a non Red Hat version of OpenStack ...

Canonical today announced that the next version of Ubuntu, 15.04 Vivid Vervet, will be available for download on Thursday. This release introduces a couple of new features for desktop users, but most ...

Like with most standards, the way the emerging OpenStack cloud management framework can be implemented is open to a fair amount of interpretation. For that reason, a lot of IT organizations ...

Details are scant but sources tell me that Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical and leader of the Ubuntu operating system, is today announcing at the OpenStack summit a CloudFoundry based solution ...