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Canonical Ltd. | September 21, 2016

Cobbler is a Linux-based configuration management tool used to automate the packaging and provisioning of software into an organization's operational IT environment from a central point. Companies such as Dell, Alstom, the Fedora Project, Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences, and TomTom use Cobbler configuration management software. Cobbler started as part of the Fedora Linux operating system, but was ported to Ubuntu as of 2011. Canonical Ltd., the company that provides Ubuntu an...

Canonical Ltd. | October 18, 2016

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 64-bit ARMv8-A architecture, and has now added Ubuntu OpenStack cloud platform and Ceph storage framework to the list....

Canonical Ltd. | October 08, 2016

Canonical Ltd. announced that its Ubuntu Linux distribution now supports React Native, the new-age, open source, JavaScript-based technology used to create native iOS and Android mobile apps. In fitting with React Native's Web-based roots, its support on Ubuntu was announced by the Webapps team at Canonical in a blog post last Friday....

Canonical Ltd. | July 15, 2016

There is a common misconception that all things Linux are bulletproof. The fact is, no software is infallible. When news of a Linux vulnerability hits, some Windows and Mac fans like to taunt users of the open source kernel. Sure, it might be in good fun, but it can negatively impact the Linux community's reputation -- a blemish, if you will. Today, Canonical announces that the Ubuntu forums have been hacked. Keep in mind, this does not mean that the operating system has experienced a vulner...