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Canonical
20 February 2010

Cat at the Lotus

Design Ubuntu

Cat at the Lotus Originally uploaded by kwwiiThis is a tale of weary over-worked designers, days spent toiling in the colour factory. Nights searching, yearning, I dare say for some of us, groping, for some magical libation, some flame, to lighten our

Canonical
20 February 2010

Canonical
19 February 2010

Amazing lunch at Canonical

Design Ubuntu

20100216-_DSC7110 Originally uploaded by kwwiiOtto’s friend Elsa has a catering service, WASHOKU we’ve used in the past but recently they went from good to excellent.She went to Japan and came back much the wiser 🙂 She and her partner brought in vari

Canonical
19 February 2010

Canonical
16 February 2010

Ubuntu single sign on service launched

Ubuntu One Ubuntu

We are pleased to announce the launch of the brand new Ubuntu single sign on service. The goal of this service is to provide a single, central login service for all Ubuntu-related sites, thus making it more convenient for Ubuntu users and community members to access information, communicate, and contribute. This...

Canonical
16 February 2010

Canonical
15 February 2010

Lucid Day

Design Ubuntu

Lucid Day Originally uploaded by j_baerEver feel like that?

Canonical
15 February 2010

One Hundred Paper Cuts for Lucid, Round 10

Design Ubuntu

Time flies like an arrow! This week marks the final round of paper cuts for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS “Lucid Lynx.” We’ve done an outstanding job so far but we still have work ahead of us. Here are some paper cuts that need attention this round:“Create Document” Templates difficult to useRight-clicking on the Desktop and choosing

Canonical
15 February 2010

Have you inspired millions of people lately?

Article Ubuntu

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS “Lucid Lynx” is just around the corner and Ubuntu users around the world are eager to be inspired by your awesome artwork and photos. You know the drill–submit your photos to the Ubuntu Artwork Flickr pool and we’ll ship as many beautiful images as we can fit on the CD!

Canonical
15 February 2010

Canonical
10 February 2010

Get your photos into Ubuntu!

Design Ubuntu

The coming release will be the second in which we’ve gone out to the wider world to source some gorgeous photos to put into Ubuntu. When you get this fab desktop environment we also want you to have some gorgeous backgrounds right out of the box. So once again we’re running a wallpaper contest on

Canonical
10 February 2010

Lucid Community Artwork push

Design Ubuntu

Lucid is well under way so I thought it is time to remind everyone of a few initiatives you might want to get involved with:The Ubuntu Artwork wallpaper flickr groupSubmit a theme for the Community Themes package in LucidHelp us with identify

Canonical
10 February 2010

Canonical
9 February 2010

Lucid Paper Cuts Round 9 Progress Report

Design Ubuntu

One Hundred Paper Cuts for Lucid is going well. 56 paper cuts have been fixed so far. We have to fix at least 20 more paper cuts to match the number of paper cuts fixed in Karmic, a record you can help us surpass by working on closing the 26 paper cuts with bugs attached.This

Canonical
9 February 2010

Canonical
8 February 2010

Dressing for the occasion

Design Ubuntu

Watching a new Nena video today on VIVA, I realized that a) she’s hot for her age but makes crap music and b) I really need an evil-bunny-man costume.Naturally, that made me think of Jono’s wonderful costume (not to mention the effects it had on t

Canonical
8 February 2010

New toy

Design Ubuntu

Picked up a N900 the other day. It’s really quite amazing. Best of all it’s linux *and* the keyboard is big enough for my thick fingers. The design isn’t as nice as the iphone though.

Canonical
8 February 2010

Canonical
5 February 2010

Improved window management shortcuts land in Lucid

Design Ubuntu

Sebastian Bacher landed improved Compiz keyboard shortcucts in Lucid this week during the distro sprint in Portland, Oregon (which is by far the best sprint I’ve ever been to–everybody is rocking):Super↓E↓↑↑ triggers Expo as usual.Super↓W↓↑↑ scales all windows on your current workspace (hint: try typing in scale...

Canonical
5 February 2010

Matt Asay joins Canonical as COO

open source Ubuntu

We are delighted to welcome Matt Asay to the Canonical fold, taking up the role of Chief Operating Officer with immediate effect. The details can be found in the press release. Matt has also written about the new challenge in his Open Road blog. So all that remains to say here is how much the

Canonical
5 February 2010

Open source industry veteran Matt Asay joins Canonical as chief operating officer

News Desktop

Canonical Ltd., the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, announced today that open source industry veteran Matt Asay has joined the company as chief operating officer (COO) — responsible for aligning strategic goals and operational activities, the optimization of day-to-day operations, and leadership of Canonical marketing and...

Canonical
5 February 2010