The next Ubuntu release, dubbed Karmic Koala (k is the 10th letter of the alphabet and this is officially release 9.10) is drawing attention for its support for clouds and its improved desktop. That ...

There’s been a considerable bit of feather-ruffling caused lately by Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux. Most recently, of course, was Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth’s controversial ...

Cloud services are all the rage today, although some of my fellow Linux Journal staffers may scoff when they hear me say that. Cloud services is a nebulous term that can mean anything from completely ...

You'd think someone had just kicked some Ubuntu Linux fans' puppy. Canonical, Ubuntu's parent company, has added Amazon search results to the upcoming Ubuntu 12.10 Unity Dash search function. Some ...

News that Ubuntu 12.10, currently in beta, will integrate Amazon search results into some queries by default app quickly created a tidal wave of recrimination in the open-source community, with ...

Canonical announced on Tuesday that Ubuntu Pro is available in a subscription-included model on Amazon Web Services. With Ubuntu Pro on AWS, users can launch Ubuntu Pro on-demand instances and ...

Activist and free software guru Richard Stallman on Friday hammered Ubuntu for including what he termed spyware in new versions of the popular open-source operating system and urged GNU and Linux ...

Company insists that adding Amazon product listings to desktop search results is secure -- and certainly not a form of advertising Say you’re performing a local search on your computer for the word ...

There are many things that comprise a successful Linux distribution, but there may be none more important than trust. Before you build a production Linux system, you have to trust that the ...

News about Ubuntu Linux 12.10 is coming fast and furious as the software’s October release date approaches, but it seems fair to say that not even the project’s Secure Boot plans have been as ...

The new version of Ubuntu Linux slated for release in October introduces a feature that some users claim is at worst a violation of privacy or, at best, generally annoying. Ubuntu 12.10 introduces ...