Canonical Ubuntu Project

Canonical builds and maintains collaborative, open-source development tools to ensure that organisations and individuals can participate fully in innovations within the open-source community. As the company behind the Ubuntu project, Canonical is committed to the production and support of Ubuntu – an ever-popular and fast-growing open-source operating system. It aims to ensure that Ubuntu is available to every organisation and individual on servers, desktops, laptops and netbooks.

Canonical has included the Qt SDK in its Ubuntu respository allowing for the sharing of developers across the Ubuntu and Qt communities. At the core of Ubuntu is the concept of enabling choice for users and developers and also to embrace the best of open source technologies in particular.

 
 

 Ubuntu & The Community

  • First heard of Qt via the KDE platform
  • Large community – over 1 million forum members, 30,000 + registered translators, 1000s of contributors
  • Offers broad set of tools and options for development such as KDE
  • Supports Qt contribution model’s advance notice of features and releases


Ubuntu Supporting Materials

Ubuntu 9.10 3D Desktop


How to get Ubuntu?


You can download Ubuntu from here.

 

 

 
 

The Qt Experience

Why Qt?

  • Wanted to offer the Ubuntu community an easy toolkit
  • Wanted to embrace a highly-regarded open source technology that also had a large community

 

Ubuntu Qt SDK includes:


  • Qt development files
  • Qt developer documentation
  • Qt Designer
  • Qt Creator
  • Subversion
  • Git
  • CMake
  • GNU computer and debugger



The Qt Advantage 


“Shipping a Qt SDK allows us to tap into the vibrant application development work going on in Qt and make them available to our users.” Gerry Carr, Canonical




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