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Canonical
14 June 2021

Introducing Ubuntu Pro for Google Cloud

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June 14th, 2021: Canonical and Google Cloud today announce Ubuntu Pro on Google Cloud, a new Ubuntu offering available to all Google Cloud users. Ubuntu Pro on Google Cloud allows instant access to security patching covering thousands of open source applications for up to 10 years and critical compliance features essential to running work ...

Canonical
8 July 2020

Canonical enables Linux desktop app support with Flutter

Canonical announcements Ubuntu tech blog

By Chris Sells (Google) & Ken VanDine (Canonical) Google’s goal for Flutter has always been to provide a portable framework for building beautiful UIs that run at native speeds no matter what platform you target. To validate this capability, we started by focusing on the mobile platforms, Android and iOS, where we’ve seen more than ...

didrocks
18 January 2017

5 Cool things Canonical does with Go

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

We had the recent news that Google’s Go was awarded programming language of 2016 by TIOBE! One of the main reasons for winning is the ease of learning and pragmatic nature. It’s less about theoretical nature and more about hands-on-experience, which is why more and more customers are adopting go in Industrial settings. At Canonical ...

Canonical
16 December 2014

Snappy Ubuntu Core comes to Google Compute Engine

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Canonical is delighted to announce the availability of snappy Ubuntu Core on Google Compute Engine, making the fastest Ubuntu now instantly accessible on the fastest cloud in the industry. Ubuntu Core is the new “snappy” rendition of the world’s favourite cloud OS, with a very lean and secure base image that features transactional updates ...

Canonical
3 November 2014

Certified Ubuntu images available on Google Cloud Platform

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Canonical, working with Google, today is launching the public beta of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, 12.04 LTS and 14.10 on Google Cloud Platform. Google Cloud Platform is a collection of cloud services that allows customers to create anything from simple websites to complex applications. Starting today, it is possible to select optimised, up to date, ...

Maarten Ectors
31 July 2014

Dialogic solves a WebRTC NAT problem for TADHack in days with Juju…

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Dialogic solves a WebRTC NAT problem for TADHack in days with Juju and now anybody can use the solution in minutes. Mid May Alan Quayle, the organiser of the first telecom application developer hackaton – TADHack, contacts Ubuntu and says that one of the sponsors suggested to setup a TURN and STUN server for the beginning of June event. T ...

Canonical
26 September 2012

The business case: open source maturity

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Like nearly all companies around the world, our business has benefited massively from open source technology. Samba has helped us allow Windows users upload and share their work on the company intranet. The intranet webservers themselves run on Apache, with a MySQL database supporting a sales team portal. These technologies are invaluable ...

Chris Kenyon
19 November 2009

Google Chrome OS and Canonical

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

Congratulations to Google on the open sourcing of Google Chrome OS When Chrome OS was announced in June we saw this as a positive development, bringing choice to the consumer. We considered how open source development is as much about co-operation as it is about competition. Google have made it clear that they are keen ...