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Canonical
17 May 2010

Ubuntu Maverick UDS group photo made with the Hugin Panorama Creator

Design Ubuntu

Due to the weather and the layout of the hotel grounds at the Ubuntu Developer Summit for 10.10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) it was impossible to take the group photo outside and from above (which I prefer). The next best place was the auditorium in which the

Canonical
17 May 2010

Canonical
12 May 2010

Opinions. Have them.

Design Ubuntu

Typography from Ronnie Bruce on Vimeo.

Canonical
12 May 2010

Canonical
10 May 2010

So long already? Nah! :)

Design Ubuntu

Today saw the start of the Ubuntu Developer Summit for our next release Maverick Meerkat. This sentiment on the final slide of Mark’s presentation will hopefully be the way that we bid a fond farewell to at the end of this insane week and I may well be motivated to blog about the craziness that

Canonical
10 May 2010

Hello, Unity

Design Ubuntu

This is an early version of Unity, what will hopefully become the new interface for Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10:Unity comprises:A launcher that makes opening and switching between applications delightful.A panel where indicators behave uniformly.A view of your installed applications, with Ubuntu Software Center...

Canonical
10 May 2010

Unity, and Ubuntu Light

open source Ubuntu

A few months ago we took on the challenge of building a version of Ubuntu for the dual-boot, instant-on market. We wanted to be surfing the web in under 10 seconds, and give people a fantastic web experience. We also wanted it to be possible to upgrade from that limited usage model to a full

Canonical
10 May 2010

Canonical
29 April 2010

Reasons to celebrate 29th April 2010

Design Ubuntu

One of the first things I did when I joined Canonical just over a year ago was conduct some user research. The idea was to identify some broad areas that needed to be addressed and so I devised sessions that included topics like dealing with music and photos, browsing the Internet, chatting with friends, etc.

Canonical
29 April 2010

Canonical
28 April 2010

Ubuntu visual identity

Design Ubuntu

Drum roll please….After a *lot* of amazing effort from the Canonical design team I am pleased to announce that preliminary Ubuntu visual identity is online and available to all!.If you’ve never worked through such a process before the amount of work

Canonical
28 April 2010

Canonical
27 April 2010

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Desktop Edition: faster boot speed and a new design

News Desktop

Long-term support (LTS) version of popular desktop operating system generally available on 29 April Canonical announced today the upcoming release of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Desktop Edition, the latest version of the popular Linux desktop distribution, which includes three years of support through free security and maintenance...

Canonical
27 April 2010

When it comes to social networking what are you? Door, Mirror, Room?

Notes Ubuntu

Everyone belongs to one, two or more social networking sites. At Canonical, we wondered “What does social networking mean to people?” I set off to find out. I went to people’s homes, sat with them at their computers, looked at the social networking sites they belong to, at their friends, and observed them using the

Canonical
27 April 2010

Canonical announces strong ISV and open source ecosystem support for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

News Desktop

Canonical announces strong ISV and open source ecosystem support for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Canonical today revealed strong software vendor support for the upcoming Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Long-term Support) release for both server and desktop. Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, to be released on 29 April 2010, will ship with hundreds of open...

Canonical
27 April 2010

Canonical’s Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server Edition features the ideal deployment platform for Linux server workloads and cloud computing

News Cloud and server

Long-term support (LTS) version of popular server operating system generally available on 29 April Canonical today announced the upcoming release of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server Edition which includes extended security and maintenance updates free of charge to all users for five years (versus 18 months for a standard...

Canonical
27 April 2010

Canonical
23 April 2010

Magical Mystery Cafe

Design Ubuntu

There will be those of you reading this who will say “only in Japan” and ordinarily I would shy away from that sort of thing but in this case I think you’re right. Cabel Sasser is co-founder of a software company I’ve long admired and found a very interesting place to get a drink while

Canonical
23 April 2010

New strategic plan!

Design Ubuntu

Came across this on the delightful Swissmiss. We are always in the process of reviewing our development processes a both design and technical to keep them Lean and agile and the chap quoted here is Herb Kelleher of Southwest airlines fame. Southwest are renowned for the way that the run their company. Highly responsive to

Canonical
23 April 2010

Curious displays

Design Ubuntu

Video on Vimeo by Julia Yu Tsao showing an interesting, and very futuristic, concept to display information in a physical environment.

Canonical
23 April 2010