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Canonical
22 July 2013

Ubuntu Edge

News Phone and tablet

Canonical targets crowdfunding record with campaign to accelerate mobile technology with Ubuntu Edge superphone / PC combination $32m campaign to deliver world’s first truly converged personal computing device based on Ubuntu phone OS and pioneering hardware. Ubuntu Edge harnesses crowdfunding to accelerate innovation...

Canonical
22 July 2013

Juju GUI for continuous deployment/integration and cloud orchestration

News Cloud and server

Juju, the leading tool for continuous deployment, continuous integration (CI/CD), and cloud-neutral orchestration, now has a refreshed GUI with smoother workflows for integration professionals spinning up many services across clouds like Amazon EC2 and a range of public OpenStack providers. The new GUI speeds up service...

Canonical
22 July 2013

Canonical
18 July 2013

Shorts visual exploration

Featured Ubuntu

Hey After all the work we have done on the Rituals app designs it was time to start exploring other core apps. I thought it would be good to share with you our recent exploration of the RSS Reader App. Please note that those are only the key screens and settings are not covered yet.

Canonical
18 July 2013

Canonical
16 July 2013

MTN Group joins Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group

News Phone and tablet

The newest member of Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group is MTN Group, Africa’s largest multinational mobile telecoms provider operating in 21 countries across the region. MTN has a significant number of business customers who can benefit from Ubuntu’s convergence and security capabilities. Pieter Verkade, Chief Commercial...

Canonical
16 July 2013

Canonical
12 July 2013

See your photos and illustrations in Ubuntu 13.10

Design Ubuntu

Each cycle we get together as a community to select some fine default wallpapers for the new release of Ubuntu. Your pictures and illustrations could be in the 13.10!

Canonical
12 July 2013

Canonical
11 July 2013

Verizon Wireless joins Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group

News Phone and tablet

Verizon Wireless is the latest member to join the Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group. Verizon Wireless is the largest mobile network operator in the US and being able to work closely with them gives us an opportunity to shape Ubuntu into the most compelling new, alternative platform for mobile. Samir Vaidya from the Device...

Canonical
11 July 2013

Canonical
8 July 2013

China Unicom joins Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group

News Phone and tablet

We’re delighted that China Unicom has joined the Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group to shape the priorities of the Ubuntu team delivering our mobile experience. China Unicom is among the world’s largest mobile operators and has nearly 300 million mobile subscribers. Li Xingxin at China Unicom’s terminal research and support...

Canonical
8 July 2013

Canonical
3 July 2013

HP ProLiant Ubuntu Server download

Article Ubuntu

Welcome to HP customers Thank you for choosing Ubuntu and purchasing your support from HP. This page is where you can download your Ubuntu Server software and learn more how Ubuntu can work for you. Download Ubuntu Server* * Please note 12.04 LTS is the HP supported version. Ubuntu Server — for scale out computing

Canonical
3 July 2013

Smartfren joins Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group

News Phone and tablet

Today we can announce PT Smartfren Telecom as the newest member of the Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group. The CAG is a forum for mobile operators to influence the development of Ubuntu for smartphones. Smartfren is the largest mobile internet provider in Indonesia, an important market for the Ubuntu smartphone. Richard Tan...

Canonical
3 July 2013

Canonical
2 July 2013

Unlocking the phone

User Experience Ubuntu

Edges are special to us. We use them for finding apps, tools and system services, so using the edges will be second nature to Ubuntu phone users. By using the launcher, how to launch your favourite app will become ingrained in your muscle memory of the left edge. The design vision behind Ubuntu for phones includes

Canonical
2 July 2013

Canonical
28 June 2013

Shorts: add, edit, share and adjust

Notes Ubuntu

In my previous blog post, we looked at the key screens for Shorts, the organic grid and the reading view. You can read about the list view behaviour in this document. In this post, I would like to look at journeys for adding and editing content, sharing an article and adjusting the reading view. Sharing

Canonical
28 June 2013

Canonical
27 June 2013

Ubuntu phone press kit

Article Phone and tablet

Ubuntu is a popular desktop OS that now offers a touch-based phone interface, using gestures from all four edges of the screen to deliver a more immersive experience. It uniquely enables convergence of the mobile and PC worlds, boasting a stunning interface and a rich developer ecosystem. About Ubuntu phone Leading open...

Canonical
27 June 2013

Canonical
26 June 2013

Using Juju to deploy OpenStack

Videos Cloud and server

See how to deploy OpenStack easily on Ubuntu using Juju and the new Juju Charm Browser.

Canonical
26 June 2013

Canonical
25 June 2013

Latest design guides

User Experience Ubuntu

It’s been a while since our last update to the app design guides so I thought it was about time I shared the latest additions to this growing resource. Screen sizes A brief intro to the framework we use for designing for a scalable OS – the grid unit. With a link directly to a more detailed

Canonical
25 June 2013