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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

Ending poverty with open hardware

Design Ubuntu

The Hexayurt is a new kind of sheltering solution. To make the simplest hexayurt, make a wall by putting six sheets of plywood on their sides in a hexagon. Cut six more sheets in half diagonally, and screw them together into a shallow cone. Lift the roof on to the wall with a large group

Canonical
5 February 2010

Canonical
3 February 2010

Do I really want to touch my computer all day?

Design Ubuntu

This concept video has been doing the rounds following a brief showing on Tech Crunch. It looks like a tablet interface you could do work on but I have to wonder if that’s a way of working that I’d even really want. For better or worse we’ve established a way of working with traditional documents

Canonical
3 February 2010

Canonical
2 February 2010

Platform sprint in Portland

Design Ubuntu

The Ubuntu platform sprint in Portland, Oregon has been an amazing experience. We’ve gotten loads of work done and are having a great time in a wonderful city. Compared to Dallas, this city rocks 😉

Canonical
2 February 2010

Canonical
26 January 2010

Lucid Paper Jam update!

Design Ubuntu

I thought I’d write a quick update on paper cut progress for Lucid. Last week was our “Sound & Video” paper jam. The following paper cuts were fixed:Totem: Must have a fullscreen button“Razor” [is] an odd name for the split toolRhythmbox Notification Bubble shows wrong cover art[Sound Recorder] Cancel button doesn’t use...

Canonical
26 January 2010

Canonical
24 January 2010

Improving Launchpad bug workflow for opportunistic programmers

Design Ubuntu

I’m a talented software engineer. I have a good deal of application programming experience on Windows, Mac OS, Linux, iPhone, Android, and the Web. I’m crazy about style guidelines, correctness, functional decomposition, self-documenting code, explicit documentation, code review, unit tests, etc. I’m confident that for...

Canonical
24 January 2010

Canonical
22 January 2010

ISV support for Ubuntu Server Edition widens

Server Ubuntu

This week were very pleased to see three companies behind three great technologies announce their support for Ubuntu. In the run up to the LTS in late April we are keen that our users are aware of the growing number of application options that they can have on their preferred operating system. These will be

Canonical
22 January 2010

Canonical
18 January 2010

IBM Client for Smart Work with Ubuntu support released

Desktop Ubuntu

At Lotusphere today we announced the availability of the IBM Client for Smart Work complete with support from Canonical. It is a significant milestone both for potential end users and for the Canonical and IBM channel. One of the gating factors to widespread adoption of Linux in the corporate desktop has been the...

Canonical
18 January 2010

Canonical
12 January 2010

Draggy Fists

Design Ubuntu

It always feels dangerous to mess with the mouse pointer when working with Flash as it has a tendency to vanish entirely if you you miss a mouse eve due to the mouse button being released outside the Flash window.This has resulted in my fake version

Canonical
12 January 2010

Canonical
11 January 2010

Empathy Paper Jam

Design Ubuntu

Last week marked our first “paper jam” for the Lucid cycle, during which the Ubuntu community identified ten potential paper cuts affecting Empathy to fix in Ubuntu 10.04. These paper cuts include:Open (but do not raise) new conversation windows automatically“Automatically connect on startup” setting confusing – users...

Canonical
11 January 2010

Canonical
1 January 2010

Canonical celebrates new UA: Landscape interface with Ubuntu Advantage free trial offer

News Cloud and server

New interface significantly eases feature deployment for systems management tool LONDON, 1 December 2010 — Canonical today announced a free trial to showcase the entirely new interface for its systems management solution, Ubuntu Advantage: Landscape. Canonical celebrates new UA: Landscape interface with Ubuntu Advantage...

Canonical
1 January 2010

Canonical
10 December 2009

Canonical announces commercial services for its version control system, Bazaar

News Cloud and server

Set up, support and troubleshooting now available for new and existing deployments Companies and open source projects interested in using Canonical's popular version control system now have access to a suite of commercial services – Consultancy & Conversion, Training and Support – allowing them to migrate, deploy and...

Canonical
10 December 2009

Canonical
9 December 2009

Excuse me!?

Design Ubuntu

Excuse me!?

Canonical
9 December 2009

Canonical
8 December 2009

A bug in two parts

Design Ubuntu

I finally got round to going through the photos on my camera this morning – I still haven’t got round to putting my holiday (August holiday!) photos on Flickr so I thought this could be the way to spend a chilly Saturday morning.As is obvious from the image, something went wrong. In fact two things

Canonical
8 December 2009