Blog posts written by Canonical

Canonical
24 March 2010

It’s Ada Lovelace Day

Design Ubuntu

I’ve always liked Ada. She was the first to see the musical potential of computers. Here, look at this old blog post in which I mention her. As proof! Homebrew Adventures 😉A tip of my hat to Ada then. And tips all round to that small elite of n

Canonical
24 March 2010

Canonical
18 March 2010

Workarounds

Design Ubuntu

I was looking for new phone wallpapers last night and stumbled across loads of examples of this. The iPhone doesn’t have a main calendar screen like other manufacturers but what I love about this is the way that people have made do and shared their work with the world. There are themed ones, valentines ones,

Canonical
18 March 2010

Canonical
14 March 2010

Not that kind of bored

Design Ubuntu

Inspired by this brilliant picture and wee post over at the Panic Inc. blog I’ve not been able to shake the idea of making a similar status view for us to use when designing Ubuntu and related products. We’re always looking to enhance our processes and what I really like the idea of is creating

Canonical
14 March 2010

Canonical
13 March 2010

Andalusia deploys 220,000 Ubuntu desktops in schools throughout the region

Case study Desktop

Summary The Andalusian Regional Government, Spain, wanted to improve access to IT in schools throughout the region. It asked IT services company infrastructure to connect 2,000 schools in Andalusia. Isotrol implemented 220,000 Ubuntu-based workstations in more than 2,000 schools throughout the region. Now, technology...

Canonical
13 March 2010

Canonical
12 March 2010

Love it from it’s Lucid ears to little Lucid toeses!

Design Ubuntu

I really can’t tell you how exciting a place to be Canonical towers is right now! Yes, it’s hard work keeping up with all the feedback from the community, we’re terrifyingly close to a release and have to deliver final and updated assets until the cows come home and YES it’s UDS in 8 weeks

Canonical
12 March 2010

Canonical
11 March 2010

Intel, Eucalyptus and Canonical join forces to help user build cloud infrastructures confidently

Server Ubuntu

A few weeks ago myself and Dustin Kirkland had the privilege of travelling to the Intel facility in Hillsboro, Oregon to work with Billy Cox, Rekha Raghu, Paul Guermonprez, Trevor Cooper and Kamal Natesan of Intel and Dan Nurmi and Neil Soman of Eucalyptus Systems and a few others on developing a proof of concept

Canonical
11 March 2010

Canonical
10 March 2010

Those pesky buttons

Design Ubuntu

Many of you have been asking for some correspondence regarding the button position in the window manager.Here it is.At Ubuntu we have a golden opportunity not only to make our OS as good as the competition but to make it better. The button position discussion and analysis started with:– Why do Mac OS and Windows

Canonical
10 March 2010

Canonical
9 March 2010

OS X Ubuntu USB Creator

Design Ubuntu

I’ve spent some time attempting to make a Cocoa that lets you burn an Ubuntu ISO to a USB memory stick on OS X.I think I’ve got as far as I’m gonna get with it now, sadly.How far I got…The UI is pretty conciseA USB stick gets detected when pl

Canonical
9 March 2010

Canonical
8 March 2010

Weekly design team picture

Design Ubuntu

Here’s a photo of Iain, design team project manager, edited to expose his love of colour:

Canonical
8 March 2010

Canonical
5 March 2010

New in Lucid…

Design Ubuntu

If you’re running lucid with the latest updates be sure to try click n’ drag the window from anywhere in the top dark area. In other words, the windeco and menubar are both dragable now. Thanks go to Cody Russell!

Canonical
5 March 2010

Making the computer work for YOU

Design Ubuntu

Yukihiro Matsumoto put it better than I ever could: Often people, especially computer engineers, focus on the machines. They think, “By doing this, the machine will run faster. By doing this, the machine will run more effectively. By doing this,

Canonical
5 March 2010

Canonical
4 March 2010

Reasons to celebrate: 4th March 2010

Design Ubuntu

My first year working for Canonical draws to a close with my team delivering a new identity for Ubuntu.I am very proud of the result and would like to thank them for all their hard work. I also want to thank Mark Shuttleworth and Jane Silber for setting out the challenge and for being part

Canonical
4 March 2010

Canonical
3 March 2010

Upcoming 10.04 LTS webinars for ISVs

Article Ubuntu

The April release of the next LTS version of Ubuntu on server and desktop is certainly generating a lot of excitement internally, in our customer base and amongst our existing partners as the VAR Guy reflects. Long-term support (LTS) releases, particularly on server have become the deployment platform for our users....

Canonical
3 March 2010

Canonical
2 March 2010

Only 25 Paper Cuts left for Lucid!

Design Ubuntu

That’s right, we’ve fixed 75 paper cuts for Lucid already! We only need to fix 25 more to reach 100, but with many important freezes occurring over the next couple weeks we need to prioritize and focus.UI freeze comes this Thursday, March 4. This means that paper cuts involving user-facing changes (e.g. labels, menus, buttons)

Canonical
2 March 2010