Canonical
Canonical produces Ubuntu, provides commercial services for Ubuntu's users, and works with hardware manufacturers, software vendors and cloud partners to certify Ubuntu.
1486 posts by Canonical
Ubuntu
Distributed user testing of archive behavior in Ubuntu
by Canonical on 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...
Ubuntu
Karmic desktop contest script
by Canonical on 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....
Cloud and server
Canonical releases source code for Launchpad
by Canonical on 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...
Ubuntu
Featured paper cut: Nautilus, simplified
by Canonical on 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
Ubuntu Flickr photo submissions
by Canonical on 17 July 2009
The flickr group photos are coming along very well! ( http://www.flickr.com/groups/ubuntu-artwork/ ) Keep up the good work!
Ubuntu
Karmic wallpapers
by Canonical on 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...
Ubuntu
Test drive Ubuntu on your Mac with Ubuntu.app
by Canonical on 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...
Cloud and server
Canonical delves deeper into the cloud, launches Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud services
by Canonical on 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...
Ubuntu
More of Ubuntu Training for Europe
by Canonical on 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...
Ubuntu
Computex sees Ubuntu at the heart of the computing ecosystem
by Canonical on 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...
Desktop
Sandisk collaborates to improve SSDs on Ubuntu netbooks
by Canonical on 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...
Ubuntu
Breathe icons 1st release
by Canonical on 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...