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Canonical, the company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, today announced the launch of Anbox Cloud, a new platform that allows enterprises to run Android in the cloud. On Anbox Cloud, Android becomes the guest operating system that runs containerized applications. This opens up a range of use cases, ranging from bespoke enterprise app to […] Continue reading Canonical’s Anbox Cloud puts Android in the cloud
An unknown hacker yesterday successfully managed to hack into the official GitHub account of Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu Linux project and created 11 new empty repositories.
It appears that the cyberattack was, fortunately, just a “loud” … Continue reading Ubuntu-Maker Canonical’s GitHub Account Gets Hacked
At the Open Infrastructure Summit, which was previously known as the OpenStack Summit, Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth used his keynote to talk about the state of open-source foundations — and what often feels like the increasing competition between them. “I know for a fact that nobody asked to replace dueling vendors with dueling foundations,” he […] Continue reading Canonical’s Mark Shuttleworth on dueling open-source foundations
The issue affects default installations of Ubuntu Server and Desktop and is likely included in many Ubuntu-like Linux distributions. Continue reading ‘Dirty Sock’ Flaw in snapd Allows Root Access to Linux Servers
It’s been 14 years since Mark Shuttleworth first founded and funded Canonical and the Ubuntu project. At the time, it was mostly a Linux distribution. Today, it’s a major enterprise player that offers a variety of products and services. Throughout the years, Shuttleworth self-funded the project and never showed much interest in taking outside money. […] Continue reading Canonical plans to raise its first outside funding as it looks to a future IPO
For a long time, traditional IT resisted the cloud, but that has changed in recent years as companies have come to realize that they can’t survive without the agility, scalability and economics that only a public cloud approach can provide. Yet in spite of the clear advantages the public cloud brings, there are still many companies out there that resist it for a variety of… Read More Continue reading Managed private cloud stacks trying to find their way in the enterprise
Ubuntu fixed a Linux bug that could have let an attacker cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code with a TCP payload this week.
Continue reading Linux Systemd Bug Could Have Led to Crash, Code Execution
Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution, long had aspirations to become a player in the mobile phone and tablet world, too. You can’t easily buy an Ubuntu-powered phone today (at least not in the U.S.), but over the years, a few have come and gone. As Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth announced today, however, the company will end its investment in the phone… Read More Continue reading Canonical ends development of its phone to focus on cloud and IoT
Canonical’s CEO claims a SQL injection vulnerability led to the hack of Ubuntu’s Two million user strong forums. Continue reading Two Million Passwords Breached in Ubuntu Hack
Pivotal, developers of the Cloud Foundry open source cloud development platform and Canonical, the company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, announced a partnership today where Ubuntu becomes the preferred operating system for Cloud Foundry.
In fact, the two companies have been BFFs since the earliest days of Cloud Foundry when it was an open source project developed at VMware. Read More Continue reading Canonical-Pivotal partnership makes Ubuntu preferred Linux distro for Cloud Foundry