The world is a big place, and it seems of no coincidence that Canonical’s offices sit 27 floors up in the Millbank Tower with a 360-degree view of it right in the middle of London. Canonical is the parent company of the most popular distribution...

Canonical, the business side to several open source Linux platforms, has announced the arrival of Ubuntu 11.04.

The release, which has the codename Natty Narwhal, brings with it a number of key features, most notably the introduction of the...

Canonical's founder Mark Shuttleworth, has announced that Ubuntu versions in the future, starting with 11.04, will be ditching the Gnome desktop environment in favour of the Unity platform that is present on the current netbook version.

The...

Canonical, the business side to several open source Linux platforms, has announced the arrival of Ubuntu 10.10.

The release, which has the codename Maverick Meerkat, brings with it a number of key features, most notably cloud integration and...

MeeGo, the joint Intel/Nokia OS hosted by the Linux Foundation, has been chosen by the GENIVI Alliance to be the system for its next release of its in-vehicle infotainment (IVI).

The Alliance, which includes the BMW Group, Delphi, GM, Intel,...

Penguin people rejoice - because Spotify has finally made its way onto Linux.

It's just a preview version for now, and as such is unsupported, and there's no local file support either. Plus, you'll have to be a Spotify Premium user to be able...

Canonical boss Chris Kenyon has stated that a version of Ubuntu specially designed for tablets could be coming our way in early 2011.

Ubuntu is a Linux OS based on the Debian GNU and can currently be found on PCs, netbooks, servers and mobile...

Google has removed the beta tag from the Mac and Linux versions of its Chrome browser following the release of Chrome 5.

The update also means a refresh for the Windows based browser and a raft of new features. The most exciting update is the...

Open-source operating system creator Canonical has announced that Ubuntu 10.04, codenamed Lucid Lynx, has been let out into the wild, and is available for download.

The announcement follows 2009's release of Jaunty Jackalope and Karmic Koala,...

When he is not busy jailbreaking Apple iPhones, coder GeoHot seems to be doing the same to the PS3.

Following Sony's decision to remove Other OS, ie Linux, support from the latest PS3 software update, the coder has found a way for gamers, or...

Sony has announced that it will remove the ability to install a secondary operating system on the PS3 on Thursday.

The company will be launching the latest firmware update, PS3 firmware 3.21 on Thursday and with it disabling the feature that...

If there was ever a bit of software in dramatic need of a little bit of sexing up, it'd be Linux. For some time, the open-source OS has had a little bit of an image problem - seen as the operating system of choice for beardy coding types. That image...

8 months after Nokia and Intel announced a partnership to work together the company has launched MeeGo.
 
Rather than a handset with a Moorestown chipset as found in the LG GW990 announced at CES, the collaboration will instead be a software...

In its own words "hot on the heels of Apple's latest product launch", UK company X2 Computing has launched the "iTablet" range of Windows- or Linux-based tablet PCs.

Due to start shipping in April 2010, in wording reminiscent of Apple's...

The "smartbook" concept is due to be turned into a real world, next-gen product with the news that Freescale Semiconductor has unveiled a "tablet reference design".

Featuring a 7-inch touchscreen (said to be four times the viewing area of...