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Canonical to offer Ubuntu Desktop support and services
By Canonical, 31 July 2009
New offerings to individuals and small businesses to ease transition to fastest growing Linux desktop Canonical, the founder of the Ubuntu project,announced...
Distributed user testing of archive behavior in Ubuntu
By Canonical, 28 July 2009
In response to two paper cuts, “Have the file-roller automatically extract an archive on double click” and “‘Archive Manager’ doesn’t mean anything if you...
Karmic desktop contest script
By Canonical, 24 July 2009
I wrote a quick-and-dirty Haskell script to download photos from the Karmic Desktop Contest, setting a new photo as your desktop background every ten minutes....
Canonical releases source code for Launchpad
By Canonical, 21 July 2009
Release of Launchpad to encourage innovation Canonical, the founder of the Ubuntu project, announced today that it has open-sourced the code that runs...
Featured paper cut: Nautilus, simplified
By Canonical, 20 July 2009
I thought I’d share a fun paper cut from this week’s milestone that has seen some interesting developments. The proposed changes (and discussion) have grown...
Ubuntu Flickr photo submissions
By Canonical, 17 July 2009
The flickr group photos are coming along very well! ( http://www.flickr.com/groups/ubuntu-artwork/ ) Keep up the good work!
Karmic wallpapers
By Canonical, 9 July 2009
Ubuntu would like to include a beautiful set of images for our users to choose from in our next release. In order to accomplish this we have set up a wiki...
Test drive Ubuntu on your Mac with Ubuntu.app
By Canonical, 7 July 2009
During Gran Canaria Desktop Summit, Ivanka Majic, Kalle Persson, Andreas Nilsson, and I had a conversation about exposing designers to the growing momentum...
Canonical delves deeper into the cloud, launches Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud services
By Canonical, 1 July 2009
Partners with Eucalyptus to offer ‘private cloud’ assessment, proof-of-concept and support services. Canonical, the founder of the Ubuntu project, today...
More of Ubuntu Training for Europe
By Canonical, 8 June 2009
With numerous new government backed Open Source initiatives kicking off in The Netherlands, we’ve decided to lead the way and ensure that Ubuntu training is...
Computex sees Ubuntu at the heart of the computing ecosystem
By Canonical, 2 June 2009
Computex starts on June 2 in Taipei and, as every year, sees the world’s PC industry come together to discuss the development of the next generation of...
Sandisk collaborates to improve SSDs on Ubuntu netbooks
By Canonical, 2 June 2009
Canonical announces detail of collaboration with SanDisk to better support Ubuntu Ubuntu sponsor and leading solid state drive manufacturer share expertise to...
Breathe icons 1st release
By Canonical, 31 May 2009
The Breathe icon team just announced their initial release. Check it out if you haven’t seen it yet on the ubuntu wiki or on gnome-look.They’ve come a long...
Landscape 1.3 now Manages Ubuntu Server on Amazon EC2
By Canonical, 18 May 2009
Announcing the release of Landscape 1.3 – the next version of Canonical’s management and monitoring software that lets you manage multiple Ubuntu systems as...
Canonical announces availability of Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop Edition
By Canonical, 20 April 2009
Faster boot speed, enhanced application suite and more visual appeal — give users more reasons than ever to choose Ubuntu Canonical, the commercial sponsor of...
Canonical announces availability of Ubuntu 9.04 Server Edition
By Canonical, 20 April 2009
Canonical, the sponsor of Ubuntu, announced today that Ubuntu 9.04 Server Edition is available to download from Thursday 23 April. Canonical offers...