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Canonical
3 December 2013

App Design Clinic #5

Notes Ubuntu

Over the last few months we have been running the App Design Clinic and we want to thank you for all your submissions, contribution and feedback! The Design Clinic happens every two weeks and the last one co-incided with vUDS, so we included more information on general app design as well as answering quesitons. Here’s

Canonical
3 December 2013

Canonical
2 December 2013

vUDS November: Design Track sum up!

User Experience Ubuntu

On 19-21 November we had our vUDS where we got to discuss and share with the community some of the design work we’ve been doing recently. Our topics ranged from our design blog to convergence designs to Juju GUI cloud to icon designs! If you missed any of our sessions, don’t worry. They are all

Canonical
2 December 2013

Canonical
26 November 2013

Asus and Ubuntu deliver affordable world-class laptops to USA Education

Article Desktop

A quiet revolution is taking place in the global education sector: more and more institutions and students are discovering the value of the Ubuntu operating system. In the USA, Ubuntu partner ASUS has added to its long line of Ubuntu laptops. The X201E and 1015E are high-quality, affordable Ubuntu laptops, perfect for...

Canonical
26 November 2013

Canonical
19 November 2013

MAAS and Juju in a VM on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS – Part 2

Article Cloud and server

Enterprise environments rely on Ubuntu’s LTS (Long-term Support) release. Its established two year release cadence and five year security and maintenance updates means sysadmins and developers can plan updates and migrations in advance. So it comes at no surprise, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is the leading reference operating...

Canonical
19 November 2013

Canonical
18 November 2013

Video: Ubuntu Cloud technologies on Dell PowerEdge servers

Videos Cloud and server

This video published by the DellTechCenter shows the optimisation of Ubuntu’s cloud technologies, “Juju” and “MAAS”, as used with the Dell PowerEdge servers. Canonical’s Kent Baxley and Dell’s Jose De La Rosa, are the two experienced engineers who have been interviewed.

Canonical
18 November 2013

Canonical
15 November 2013

Interested in MAAS and Juju? Here’s how to try it in a VM

Article Cloud and server

The backbone for scale-out workload deployments in Ubuntu, such as big data (Hadoop), cloud (OpenStack), and layered applications is a combination of Metal-as-a-Service (MAAS) and Juju. These exciting open-source projects, offer groundbreaking functionality and just got better in Ubuntu 13.10! MAAS provisions hardware...

Canonical
15 November 2013

November Brown Bag lunch

Notes Ubuntu

Some of us in the Design team have been gathering on a monthly basis to have lunch together and share things we find interesting to us. Today, I’d like to share with you the Brown Bag lunch we had this week. Vesa shared with us his interest in photography and showed us some of the

Canonical
15 November 2013

Canonical
11 November 2013

Conducting Usability Testing: a case of just following the task script?

User Experience Ubuntu

In the previous post, we talked about how to design effective user testing tasks to evaluate the usability of an interface. This post continues with this topic by highlighting a number of key strategies that you may need to use when conducting a formative user testing, whose main aim is to identify usability problems and

Canonical
11 November 2013

App Design Clinic #4

Notes Ubuntu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHs0bYWcq-E App design Clinic #4 focuses on icons, with questions from Stuart Langridge including: guidance on creating app icons (stylistically and in terms of file format and resolution) tips on how to use action icons The presentation deck link will be shared on the blog once it’s been...

Canonical
11 November 2013

Canonical
8 November 2013

Trademarks, community and criticism

open source Ubuntu

Recently some concerns were expressed by fixubuntu.com, a website focusing on Ubuntu privacy, about a routine trademark enforcement email that Canonical sent. We want to provide some context around this issue. In Ubuntu we cherish an open and diverse discourse, and we welcome differing and challenging views and...

Canonical
8 November 2013

Canonical
7 November 2013

Deploying Web Applications using Juju – (Part 3/3)

Article Cloud and server

The goal of this tutorial series is to demonstrate the power of Juju service orchestration for deploying web applications and infrastructure services. Juju is a service orchestration framework that is designed to make it very easy for application designers to deploy their applications in an easy, repeatable and logical...

Canonical
7 November 2013

A week in San Francisco

Notes Cloud and server

I recently attended my first cloud sprint meeting held in San Francisco, and it turned out to be a great experience. It’s been 10 years since I last visited, so as well as working hard, it was nice to have the opportunity to see the city again. Whilst there we worked on the UX and

Canonical
7 November 2013

Canonical
5 November 2013

Canonical keynote: building business value through interoperability

Videos Cloud and server

Watch Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical and Ubuntu, create an entire Ubuntu OpenStack cloud from scratch using building blocks chosen by his live audience at the OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong.

Canonical
5 November 2013

Ubuntu OIL announced for broadest set of cloud infrastructure options

News Cloud and server

Today at the OpenStack Design Summit in Hong Kong, we announced the Ubuntu OpenStack Interoperability Lab (Ubuntu OIL). The programme will test and validate the interoperability of hardware and software in a purpose-built lab, giving Ubuntu OpenStack users the reassurance and flexibility of choice. We’re launching the...

Canonical
5 November 2013