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On 8 July 2005, Mark Shuttleworth and Canonical announced the creation of the Ubuntu Foundation and provided initial funding of US$10 million. The purpose of the foundation is to ensure the support and development for all future versions of Ubuntu. Mark Shuttleworth describes the foundation's goal to ensure the continuity of the Ubuntu project ...
Photo of Ubuntu Certificate. Ubuntu Professional Certification which was introduced in May 2006, [1] was a computer based examination about the Ubuntu operating system.. The test was administered by the LPI (Linux Professional Institute) and the certification was part of the LPIC (Linux Professional Institute Certification) as an added module/exam to LPI 117-101 and LPI 117-102 certs.
In 2004, he returned to the free-software world by funding the development of Ubuntu, a Linux distribution based on Debian, through his company, Canonical Ltd. [17] In 2005, he founded the Ubuntu Foundation and made an initial investment of 10 million dollars.
Ubuntu, the company's main product. Canonical Ltd. [4] is a privately held computer software company based in London, England.It was founded and funded by South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth to market commercial support and related services for Ubuntu and related projects.
www.canonical.com /projects /ubuntu /unr Ubuntu Netbook Edition (UNE) , known as Ubuntu Netbook Remix (UNR) prior to the release of Ubuntu 10.04 , [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] is a discontinued version of the Ubuntu operating system (OS) that had been optimized to enable it to work better on netbooks and other devices with small screens or with the Intel ...
Because Ubuntu now incorporates a "free software only" installer option, the Gobuntu project was rendered redundant in early 2008. As a result, Canonical made the decision officially to end the Gobuntu project with version 8.04. [3] In March 2009, it was announced that "Gobuntu 8.04.1 is the final release of Gobuntu.
Kubuntu (/ k ʊ ˈ b ʊ n t uː / kuu-BUUN-too) [3] is an official flavor of the Ubuntu operating system that uses the KDE Plasma Desktop instead of the GNOME desktop environment. As part of the Ubuntu project, Kubuntu uses the same underlying systems. Kubuntu shares the same repositories as Ubuntu [4] and is released regularly on the same ...
In December 2008, Canonical announced that the source code to the Launchpad website would be released under a free software license by 21 July 2009. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] It was also announced that two large components of Launchpad, Soyuz (which is responsible for the build system, package management and Ubuntu package publishing) and Codehosting ...