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Canonical Ltd. is a private company founded (and funded) by South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth for the promotion of free software projects. Canonical is registered in the tax haven Isle of Man and employs staff around the world, along with their main offices in London and support office in Montreal.

Open Source software projects sponsored by Canonical


* Ubuntu, a Debian-based Linux distribution;
* the Ubuntu derivative distributions Kubuntu (a KDE offspring of the GNOME centric Ubuntu), Xubuntu (a Xfce version of Ubuntu) and Edubuntu (which focuses on the school environment);
* Bazaar, a decentralized revision control system; and
* TheOpenCD, a collection of high quality free and open-source software. The programs run in Windows and cover the most common tasks.

Open Source promotion projects sponsored by Canonical


* Software Freedom Day
* Go Open Source, a South African campaign to create awareness of, educate about, and provide access to open-source software. It is important, once awareness of OSS has been created, that interested parties have the ability to gain access to the software and services, and that they have access to additional resources for support and training. It ran from May 2004 to May 2006.
* GEEK Freedom League, The FREEDOM league is a South African project designed to bring together the best of the open source world and the massive country-wide community of people driven to introduce as many new people as possible to the use of open source software. Anyone with the passion and ability can sign-up and receive all the materials needed to convert as many people and computers as possible. People will be able to log their installs and track their progress. [http://www.go-opensource.org/freedom/what-is-the-freedom-league.html]

Other Canonical projects


* Launchpad, a developers' web application including a translation tool (Rosetta) and a bug tracking tool (Malone). (Note that it is a proprietary software)
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