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Canonical
9 March 2017

Mobile World Congress 2017. One for the records – bigger and better!

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

Mobile World Congress was one for the record books! For starters, we blew-out last year’s number of visitors to Canonical’s Ubuntu booth. The mixture was consumer targeting businesses looking for device/mobility updates, IoT advances, and innovation around artificial intelligence (AI) and augmented reality. On the other hand, enterprise b ...

Canonical
28 February 2017

Canonical wins Orange Award for Converged Computing at MWC 17

Phone and tablet Ubuntu tech blog

BARCELONA, Spain – February 28, 2017 – Canonical announced today it was awarded the Orange Outstanding achievement for converged computing & digital openness at the Orange Device Partner Awards ceremony. With 25 awards over four categories, the Orange Device Partner Awards celebrates the 10th anniversary of the smartphone and aims to reco ...

Canonical
3 December 2007

Linux Magazine names Canonical as top 20 companies to watch in 2007

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

Canonical Ltd today announced that it has been named one of the ‘Top 20 Companies to Watch in 2007’ by Linux Magazine. Canonical was selected as one of the companies best positioned in the coming year to spur Linux and Open Source adoption, while delivering on the immediate needs of the marketplace. Jane Silber, Canonical ...

Canonical
23 May 2007

Ubuntu 7.04 wins a “100 Best Products of 2007 Award” from PC World

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

Ubuntu 7.04, commercially sponsored by Canonical Ltd., was honored by PC World with a 100 Best Products of 2007 Award. The article is available now on PCWorld.com, and will also be featured in the July 2007 issue of PC World, which hits newsstands June 12. Ubuntu is the award-winning Linux distribution for the desktop, laptop, ...

Canonical
26 March 2007

Ubuntu receives Editor’s Choice Award from PC Welt

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

Canonical Ltd, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, today announced it has scooped another award for Ubuntu, its leading-edge Linux distribution. At the PC Welt awards dinner held during the CeBIT Exhibition in Hanover, on Friday 16th March, Ubuntu was awarded the “Editor's Choice Award for Open Source”. PC-WELT editor in chief, Andreas Perb ...

Canonical
14 February 2007

Ubuntu wins TUX award

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Ubuntu and Kubuntu have been awarded the TUX Magazine Readers Choice Award for 2005 TUX Magazine is aimed at the new Linux user, and currently has over 50,000 registered readers. Firefox and OpenOffice.org also won in their categories, of which there were 14 in total. “We were amazed by both the quantity and quality of ...

Canonical
16 November 2006

Ubuntu wins most user friendly Linux distribution award

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

Canonical Ltd, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, today announced it has scooped another two awards for Ubuntu, its leading-edge Linux distribution. At the Linux New Media Awards, on Wednesday 15th November, Ubuntu was awarded 'Most User-Friendly Linux Distribution', and Canonical the 'Best combination of Community and Commerce'. Ubuntu al ...

Canonical
8 June 2006

Ubuntu wins 2006 World Class Award from PC World

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

Ubuntu was awarded a PC World 2006 World Class Award, identifying it as one of PC World's '100 Best Products of the Year. Winners were announced in the July 2006 issue of PC World. Ubuntu, which has become one of the world's most popular Linux distributions in recent years, launched its latest version on June ...

Canonical
14 February 2006

Ubuntu and founder Mark Shuttleworth win new awards

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

Ubuntu and its founder, Mark Shuttleworth, both won awards at the Linux New Media Awards at last week’s Linux World Expo in Frankfurt, Germany. The Best Debian Derivative Distribution award was judged by a 200-member international jury from industry and the Open Source community. This is a significant award as it recognises the effort tha ...

Canonical
14 February 2006

Ubuntu wins Best Distribution Award

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

At the UK Linux & Open Source Awards dinner held on October 5th Ubuntu was awarded the Reader Award for best distribution. Debian and Red Hat were also on the short list. Ubuntu was also nominated in the embedded/mobile solution category (with HP for the custom Ubuntu/HP work) and the corporate contribution category. ...

Canonical
18 October 2005

Ubuntu wins Linux Journal Reader’s Choice Award

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The popular Ubuntu operating system is moving from strength to strength, winning awards across the globe for the best Linux distribution. This time, it's the readers of the Linux Journal who have chosen Ubuntu as their favourite. In the November edition of the Linux Journal, Ubuntu beat the more established distributions in this year's Re ...