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As much fun as it is to view the world in a "Linux versus Microsoft" way, the reality is that a technology monoculture is less useful than a heterogenous one. Even Microsoft knows this: they've made a

<a href="https://techcrunch.com/tag/mark-shuttleworth">Mark Shuttleworth</a> is the founder and former CEO of <a href="https://techcrunch.com/tag/canonical">Canonical</a>, the commercial company behin

<a href="https://techcrunch.com/tag/canonical">Canonical</a>, the corporate sponsor of the <a href="https://techcrunch.com/tag/ubuntu">Ubuntu</a> Linux distribution, has been doing a lot of interestin

Canonical's <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/01/09/i-want-my-ubuntu-tv/">Ubuntu TV</a>, unveiled earlier this year, was the first in a series of announcements about "Ubuntu on devices". The next d

Every time I write about <a href="https://techcrunch.com/tag/ubuntu">Ubuntu</a> and its (not-so) new Unity interface, I see lots and lots of comments decrying it as useless, an abomination, the worst

<a href="https://techcrunch.com/ces2012">CES</a> is upon us, and is no doubt chock full of the usual suspects of consumer electronics OEMs, ODMs, and more. One interesting new attendee this year is Ca

The Ubuntu Developer Summit, starting today in Florida, is a gathering of Canonical employees, industry partners and Ubuntu community members to "define the focus and plans for [the] up-coming versio

There's been some hubbub lately about Secure Boot, a hardware-verified, malware-free operating system bootstrap process that aims to improve the overall security of computers. Part of the UEFI specifi

Vodaphone and Canonical today announced the Vodacom "Webbook", the fruit of a joint effort to develop a low-cost mobile computing solution for South Africa. Most of the specs are about what you'd expe

The <a href="https://techcrunch.com/tag/ubuntu">Ubuntu</a> Linux distribution has come a long way since it's first release in 2004. It started out as a nicely packaged Linux desktop, built from a spec

<a href="https://techcrunch.com/tag/canonical">Canonical</a>, the commercial backer behind the <a href="https://techcrunch.com/tag/ubuntu">Ubuntu</a> Linux distribution, have been hosting a file synch

Almost every single keynote at LinuxCon, and certainly every private conversation I had with folks here, involved "cloud" in some way. As Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst observed in his keynote, there's no