Canonical Ltd.

Canonical Ltd. is a private company founded on March 5, 2004 by South African businessman Mark Shuttleworth. Officially headquartered on the Isle of Man, however, employees of this organization and missions are scattered around the world. The main office is located in London, where the founder lives. The support office is located in Montreal (Canada), and the OEM team is located in Lexington (Massachusetts, USA). In Russia, Canonical products are handled by Vladimir Kryukov (vladimir.kryukov@canonical.com), regional manager of the EMEA region .

Products - Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu, Gobuntu

History

2022: Termination of support for corporate clients in Russia

On April 5, 2022, Canonical announced a restriction on its activities in Russia - support for corporate customers ceases, but this will not affect individuals. With this decision, the developer of Linux distributions Ubuntu reacted to the Russian special operation in Ukraine and the subsequent Western sanctions.

According to Canonical, the company ceases technical support for its corporate products and professional services, as well as severing partnerships with Russian companies.

Ubuntu developer stops support for corporate customers in Russia

We will not resume such contacts while there are extensive democratic sanctions against Russia, Canonical said in a statement.

The company promised not to limit access to security patches for Ubuntu users in Russia. It is claimed that free software platforms such as Ubuntu, VPN and Tor technologies will be available to everyone. The income that Canonical will receive from Russian paid subscribers for the remaining services will be used to provide humanitarian assistance to residents of Ukraine.^[1]

Canonical added that the company actively supports employees affected by the special operation and seeks to ensure them "maximum financial, emotional and physical security." In addition, Canonical assists in the accommodation of victims and refugees.

2011: Select LibreOffice as default office package

At a meeting of the Ubuntu development team held in Dallas in the USA, a final decision was made to use LibreOffice as an office package used in the default distribution. The question was whether this would happen in the next issue of Ubuntu 11.04 (codename Natty Narwhal), scheduled for April 2011. The first swallow was the appearance of LibreOffice in daily assemblies of the alpha version of Ubuntu. Now there is also official confirmation. Neil Levine, vice president of Canonical, responding to a question from ZDnet, confirmed that the developers of the Ubuntu team decided to make LibreOffice the main office package.

We can expect that Ubuntu will follow the example Fedora - a distribution supported with the participation of the company, the Red Hat next release of which, Fedora 15, is expected on May 10. Fedora developers indicate that the LibreOffice will be able to develop independently Oracle if the latter decides to close the. OpenOffice org project, as previously happened with Open Solaris.