The standard or authoritative method. The term comes from "canon," which is the law or rules of the church. See canonical name and canonical synthesis.
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- Canonical has warned users of all machines running recent versions of Ubuntu to patch their systems and shut an open door for hackers. Canonical is the latest Linux vendor to patch a vulnerability in the open-source operating system's kernel that could have left the door open for hackers to...
- News items 2008-08-26
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- Blog posts 2008-08-16
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- Blog posts 2008-08-14
- Got any old iMacs laying around?
- You know the ones I'm talking about. The candy-colored ones that live forever, even as you're hoping they'll die so you can replace them with something that will run OS X? A few can be upgraded, but OS X is really made for something a bit, well, snappier....
- Blog posts 2008-08-13
- IBM should spend another $1B to sell its Symphony OpenOffice-Linux desktop to the masses
- IBM is enlisting the help of the top three Linux distributors to help its desktop Office and messaging software gain ground. It's a small step forward but Big Blue must reach out to the masses to win this game. At LinuxWorld, IBM announced that Canonical/Ubuntu, Novell and Red...
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- IBM, Ubuntu, Novell and Red Hat gang up on Vista
- The Linux computing crowd smells blood and wants to make a run at Microsoft's Vista operating system. Coinciding with LinuxWorld, IBM, Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, Novell and Red Hat issued a joint statement promising "Microsoft free" desktops across the globe. I doubt it...
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- We wanna be more like Apple - Microsoft and Ubuntu get ready to fire up the photocopiers!
- We wanna be more like Apple - Microsoft and Ubuntu get ready to fire up the photocopiers!Linux has no marketing.Market share is directly related to marketing. When is the last time anyone saw a Linux commercial?Isn't that the point?You say that Canonical needs to listen more to the "customers" but...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- We wanna be more like Apple - Microsoft and Ubuntu get ready to fire up the photocopiers!
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- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Can Ubuntu win the OS beauty pageant?
- Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has thrown down the gauntlet to his merry band of open source followers: Make Ubuntu as pretty and ultimately better looking than Apple's Mac OS. eWeek's Darryl Taft quotes Shuttleworth Techmeme: "The great task in front of...
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Best Buy to sell Ubuntu for $19.99
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- Discussion threads 2008-07-11
- Best Buy to sell Ubuntu for $19.99
- Canonical, along with software distributor ValuSoft, have come together to push a boxed version of Ubuntu 8.04 into Best Buy retail stores. The catch, it'll cost you $19.99. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-07-11
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- Blog posts 2008-07-10
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- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
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- Discussion threads 2008-06-11
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- Discussion threads 2008-06-04
- Ubuntu netbook remix gets me closer to that netbook I've been wanting
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- Blog posts 2008-06-04
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- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- A quick note on Ubuntu for netbooks
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- Discussion threads 2008-05-23
- OpenSolaris: What Ubuntu wants to be when it grows up
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- Discussion threads 2008-05-05
- Will OpenSolaris bring a chill to Sun-Ubuntu romance?
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- Discussion threads 2008-05-02
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