
Ubuntu 13.04 with codename “Raring Ringtail” has been released and announced by Ubuntu Team. It comes with a number of improvements in performance and speed, and aesthetic touches that promise “more polished visual experience of Ubuntu to date”. Ubuntu 13.04 raring ringtail will have support for 9 months, until January 2014 – has also optimizations [...]

Canonical has made changes to the Official Ubuntu website and now offers a page that asks users to donate funds to contribute financially to the development of the distribution before downloading. The new page-inspired contributions Seen On The Humble Indie Bundle allows users to indicate their preferences on issues they consider most important investment, with categories like ”Ubuntu [...]

After the successful release Ubuntu 12.04 LTS pangolin Precise. Canonical announced the schedule of the upcoming Ubuntu release, that is Ubuntu 12.10 with the codename Quantal Quetzal, it will be a 17th ubuntu release. Here’s the Ubuntu 12.10 Quatzal Quental release schedule: 7 Juni 2012 – Release alpha 1 28 Juni 2012 – Release alpha 2 2 Agustus 2012 – Release alpha 3 6 September 2012 – Release beta 1 27 September 2012 – Release beta 2 18 Oktober 2012 [...]

Support for ubuntu 10.10 maverick meerkat end on April 10, 2012. This date was established when Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat was released in october of 2010. This announcement on the Ubuntu Developer mailing list, Kate Stewart as Ubuntu Release Manager writes : This note is just to confirm that the support period for Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) formally ends on April 10, 2012 and [...]

Development Update The Precise Pangolin Beta 2 is set to be released on Thursday, the 29th, If you feel comfortable testing beta releases, get the latest daily build and keep it updated. Don’t forget to report any bugs you find! From now on it’s only one month until the release of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Here’s the [...]

Chances are if you’re using Ubuntu you’re a 25-35 year old male living in either the USA or Mexico. At least, those are the findings from the recently-conducted ‘Ubuntu User Survey 2012′. With a response rate of over 17,000, the survey will help Ubuntu developers better understand their user base. For example, people in Spanish [...]

Development Update 42 days until Ubuntu 12.04, the sixteenth Ubuntu release and fourth LTS will be released. This makes six weeks in which the following things are going to happen: one week until Beta 2 Freeze and docs will be frozen, two weeks until Beta 2 gets out, three weeks until the kernel is frozen, [...]

Development Update Today marks the transition of Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin from Alpha Testing into the first phase of Beta Testing as Ubuntu 12.04 Beta 1 is released. Nicholas Skaggs has a number of items you can help out with by simply doing a bit of testing. We still have eight weeks until release, so let’s take [...]

(Ubuntu 12.04 Development Update 14 originally posted here) Development Update And again we are in the most interesting time of the release cycle. Today we will hit Feature Freeze at around 21:00 UTC. The time where we stop introducing new features, packages, and APIs, and concentrate on fixing bugs in the development release. Today marks the end [...]

Canonical Announcing New Business Plan Called “Ubuntu Business Desktop Remix“. Ubuntu Business Desktop Remix is a new distribution from canonical based on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot and is dedicated to government institutions and companies. It is a combination of free software applications, certified commercial apps, and Canonical’s management solution .Ubuntu Business Desktop Remix aims is to give companies and [...]