Dell is to offer Ubuntu on its latest batch of '2-in-1' Inspiron laptops, marking the first time the OS has been sold on a mainstream hybrid device.

Canonical had an unexpected hit at OpenStack Summit: It's an Intel-powered, cloud-in-a-box.

The future of Ubuntu for Android ever looked particularly bright, but we were enamored with the concept. You'd walk around by day with a standard-issue Android phone in your pocket, but when you docked it to a keyboard, mouse and monitor, you were greeted with a full Ubuntu desktop experience. Well, Canonical has decided to put the project out to pasture apparently.

Container technology, a lightweight kind of virtualization, is becoming a core component in major Linux distributions. But what role will it really plan in datacenters and the cloud?

I still find Ubuntu with Unity the best desktop of all for users who don't know computers and just want something easy to use.

Want to get the most out of Linux Mint, one of the most popular of the Linux desktops? Then read on!

Recognizing that it can't keep up with the Dropboxes of the cloud storage world, Canonical elects to shut down its Ubuntu One file service.

Canonical is shutting down its Ubuntu One music and cloud-storage service rather than continue to go up against competitors such as Dropbox, Google Drive and EMC Syncplicity. The service will be available until June 1, but as of Wednesday, customers can no longer sign up for it or make purchases.

The goal is to offer Ubuntu users the best email experience possible while using the OS on a range of devices. But in order to do that you've got to create a client that's good enough to tempt users away from the already well-established webmail offerings.

Lots of operating systems run on the OpenStack cloud, but Ubuntu Linux is most users' favorite.

Other Linux distributions are moving to MariaDB for their default database management system, but Ubuntu is standing by Oracle's MySQL. Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth explains why.

When Canonical introduced its new Ubuntu Unity interface, a major design element was a global, universal menu that all apps would use. Things have changed. Canonical is switching back to local app menus.

The wait is almost over. On February 19, Canonical announced that it had signed agreements with mobile device manufacturers Spain's bq and China's Meizu to bring Ubuntu smartphones to consumers around the world. The first native Ubuntu smartphones are expected to be in customers' hands in 2014.

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Finally, after Debian, Ubuntu's parent Linux distribution, voted for systemd, Ubuntu's founder Mark Shuttleworth announced that Canonical would support systemd rather than continue to push for Upstart.

Ubuntu has gained momentum for its phone offering over the last year and has attracted much interest from the mobile industry at large. So, today, we’re announcing Vodafone as the latest addition to our Carrier Advisory Group.

My buddy Tom Henderson looks at the mobile Linuxes-- Firefox OS, Ubuntu One, and Tizen--that are challenging Android. 

Want to run Debian or Ubuntu on your Chromebook? With Crouton, you can do that.

When one buys an Ubuntu PC he can’t do a lot that a Mac or Windows user can do, but when someone buys a Steam OS game console, he can do much more than what a PlayStation, Xbox or Nintendo user can do. Steam Machine user won’t have to open their laptops to get the work done – which they have to do when they are on other game consoles.

Participating Ubuntu flavours have released their second alphas for the upcoming 14.04 release.