In 1991, Linus Torvolds created the Linux operating system “just for fun” and, 15 years later, Ubuntu was born - offering developers a more lightweight, user-friendly distribution. This year marks ...

It’s the start of a new year and with that comes a lot predictions and forecasts to come but, traditionally January is the start of it all for the tech world. With CES just around the corner and ...

UBUNTU: CURATING THE ARCHIVE edited by Leonhard Praeg and Siphokazi Magadla (UKZN Press) A REPORT ON UBUNTU by Leonhard Praeg (UKZN Press) These are rich times for scholarship on ubuntu, the Nguni ...

Canonical extends Ubuntu LTS security and support to 15 years via the Legacy add-on for Ubuntu Pro. Coverage starts with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

In early April 2017, Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth announced that Ubuntu was switching back to Gnome. Shuttleworth explained, "I took the view that if convergence was the future and we could ...

Maybe it was one piece of malware too many, maybe it was realizing that while Windows 7 doesn’t look like XP, there really wasn’t that much better about it, in any case the day had come when you ...