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Canonical produces Ubuntu, provides commercial services for Ubuntu's users, and works with hardware manufacturers, software vendors and cloud partners to certify Ubuntu.


Canonical
24 January 2010

Improving Launchpad bug workflow for opportunistic programmers

Ubuntu Design

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 most application co ...


Canonical
22 January 2010

ISV support for Ubuntu Server Edition widens

Ubuntu Server

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
18 January 2010

IBM Client for Smart Work with Ubuntu support released

Ubuntu Desktop

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 perceived availability ...


Canonical
12 January 2010

Draggy Fists

Ubuntu Design

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
11 January 2010

Empathy Paper Jam

Ubuntu Design

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 may expect this to r ...


Canonical
1 January 2010

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

Cloud and server News

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 free trial offer N ...


Canonical
10 December 2009

Canonical announces commercial services for its version control system, Bazaar

Cloud and server News

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 manage Bazaar. Used b ...


Canonical
9 December 2009

Excuse me!?

Ubuntu Design

Excuse me!? ...


Canonical
8 December 2009

A bug in two parts

Ubuntu Design

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
3 December 2009

2009 Ubuntu Server Edition user survey

Ubuntu Server

The Ubuntu Server Team wants to know how you use Ubuntu Server Edition in day-to-day operations to help the team prioritize the support and development of the product.  This is the second edition of this initiative which was first introduced in 2008. In an effort to better understand, support and further the Ubuntu Server Edition ...


Canonical
24 November 2009

One Hundred Paper Cuts: Karmic summary and Lucid plans

Ubuntu Design

Karmic RetrospectiveLong story short: we fixed 76 paper cuts for Karmic. Hooray! Congratulations! For more details, see the Ubuntu wiki page.(I believe we actually reached 100, but many paper cuts were fixed without being reported or carefully tracked, and some individual paper cuts addressed multiple instances of a general of problem.)Wh ...


Canonical
24 November 2009

Fresh off the press

Ubuntu Design

I just got my copy of “The Book of Inkscape” by Dmitry Kirsanov. It has excellent information for inkscape users both new and old 😉 ...