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Landscape is a systems management tool developed by Canonical. [2] It can be run on-premises or in the cloud depending on the needs of the user. It is primarily designed for use with Ubuntu derivatives such as Desktop, Server, and Core. Landscape provides administrative tools, centralized package updates, machine grouping, script deployment ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Snap is a software packaging and deployment system developed by Canonical for operating systems that use the Linux kernel and the systemd init system. The packages, called snaps, and the tool for using them, snapd, work across a range of Linux distributions [3] and allow upstream software developers to distribute their applications directly to users.
The Ubuntu Forums were created by Ryan Troy in October 2004. [6] The forums became a popular resource for Ubuntu and were deemed the Official Ubuntu Forums in November 2004. [ 7 ] The forums hosting continued to be paid for by Ryan and the occasional donations of forum members until March 2006, when Canonical offered to host the forums on its ...
It was part of the Ayatana project, an initiative with the stated intention of improving the user experience within Ubuntu. [6] It was initially designed to make more efficient use of space given the limited screen size of netbooks , including, for example, a vertical application switcher called the launcher , and a space-saving horizontal ...
An online edition of the Ubuntu Software Center was released, the Ubuntu Apps Directory. The Web store shows the same content as the Software Center application, with a download button that opens the application if running Ubuntu or a link to download the Ubuntu operating system installer if running a different operating system. [9]