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More tickets released for Ubuntu in Business event in London
By Canonical, 24 June 2010
Canonical and the Ubuntu UK community have joined forces to host and promote an ‘Ubuntu in Business‘ event in Brick Lane, London on July 13th – and it’s...
Art in the open
By Canonical, 23 June 2010
Are you a musician? Do you make beautiful illustrative wallpapers? Do you take amazing photographs? Do you make clever and inspiring videos or animations? You...
Introduction to Unity Launcher
By Canonical, 23 June 2010
This article illustrates briefly the main functionalities of the Launcher for Ubuntu Netbook Edition (aka Unity) and how we got there. Don’t miss the video!
Open Season : Maverick
By Canonical, 22 June 2010
It’s back and it’s bigger than ever! It’s that time of the year again, time to start hunting down those nasty trivial Papercut bugs. Huh? Papercuts? To...
Ubuntu makes Opera 9 available for easy download and installation
By Canonical, 14 June 2010
After the launch of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, Canonical is pleased to announce the availability of Opera 9 for Ubuntu. With just a few clicks of the mouse, all Ubuntu...
When users first encounter Ubuntu: six showstoppers
By Canonical, 11 June 2010
We recently conducted usability testing to see how users respond to Ubuntu on their first encounter. Overall, first impressions are good. Typical remarks...
Quickly Run with a Ctrl+R Keyboard Shortcut in Gedit
By Canonical, 11 June 2010
I’m all about workflow, so the first thing I wanted to do when trying quickly was to make sure I could hit a keyboard shortcut to build and run from within my...
Announcing the User Experience Advocates Project
By Canonical, 10 June 2010
After working on paper cuts for a year, I realized how disorganized many open source projects affecting Ubuntu are when it comes to improving user experience....
Canonical renews the Ubuntu certification programme
By Canonical, 8 June 2010
June 8, Taipei: Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, announced today that it has extended and revised its Hardware Certification Programme for Original...
Well worth ten minutes of your time…
By Canonical, 8 June 2010
An illustration supporting a talk by Dan Pink about the hidden truths behind what really motivates us.
Canonical gives businesses the Ubuntu Advantage
By Canonical, 8 June 2010
Canonical over the last four years or so has brought businesses a growing range of services and software tools to help them make better use of the Ubuntu...
New Canonical services help businesses get ahead with Ubuntu Server and Ubuntu Desktop
By Canonical, 7 June 2010
“Ubuntu Advantage” provides configurable support services to businesses LONDON, June 7, 2010 — Canonical today introduced Ubuntu Advantage – a comprehensive...
Last week in London and Brussels
By Canonical, 31 May 2010
I spent the first part of last week in a small room in London with Andrea Cimitan, Daniel Foré and Otto Greenslade working on the amazing Murrine theme engine...
The keyboard menu
By Matthew Paul Thomas, 27 May 2010
A new keyboard menu will replace both the keyboard layout toggle from Ubuntu’s doomed notification area, and the IBus menu for choosing a keyboard input method.
New Ubuntu and Canonical sites
By Alejandra Obregon, 26 May 2010
The new Ubuntu and Canonical sites went live today. As well as the visual refresh to include the new brand, the objective was to bring the sites up-to-date...
Landscape 1.5 Released with new Enterprise Features
By Canonical, 26 May 2010
The number of subscribers to the Landscape Systems Management application has grown dramatically over the past year with much of this growth coming from...