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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
11 February 2011

10 reasons to migrate

Desktop White paper

The computing world is extremely polarised when it comes to proprietary vs. open source, and a million industry voices tell a million different stories. Even so, there are still very real differences between the two philosophies and technologies. This white paper focuses on just a few of them, giving you 10 great reasons to migrate ...

Canonical
10 February 2011

Canonical releases world’s most comprehensive, up-to-date component catalog for Linux

Ubuntu News

Canonical today announced that for the first time it was making publicly available its complete database of certified components for Ubuntu and Linux — rapidly reducing the the time-to-market for Original Design Manufacturers (ODMs) working on Ubuntu or Linux machines. The catalogue gives ODMs a selection of over 1300 certified components ...

Canonical
2 February 2011

Dell customers use Ubuntu to deploy cloud

Cloud and server News

Canonical today announced the availability of Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) running on Dell PowerEdge C2100 and C6100 servers in an integrated solution enabling Dell's U.S.-based customers to easily deploy Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). The standard edition released today allows software developers and IT organizations to run cloud p ...

Canonical
2 February 2011

Agora Games makes dramatic time and cost savings with Ubuntu

Ubuntu Case study

Gaming company cuts server infrastructure by almost half with Ubuntu and VMware Summary Agora Games creates custom online gaming communities and develops video-game middleware. As a fast-growing company, Agora Games realised that it needed to implement a standardised infrastructure that could scale to meet growing demand. It worked with t ...

Canonical
26 January 2011

The Natty Wallpaper contest – an important update!

Ubuntu Article

Two weeks into our wallpaper contest we’re seeing lots of really interesting entries for the photographic part. As those of you who read the previous post about the contest will know we’re also reserving at least three places this release for non photographic wallpapers. The plan _was_ to use another site to manage these entries. ...

Canonical
24 January 2011

London’s Design Museum recognises Ubuntu fonts

Desktop News

London 24th January 2011: The Ubuntu Project today announced the opening of a new exhibition at London’s Design Museum dedicated to the Ubuntu Font, in collaboration with international typeface designers Dalton Maag. Entitled ‘Shape my language’, the exhibition will run from 28th January to 28th February 2011. The exhibition marks a signi ...

Canonical
20 January 2011

Free Culture Showcase

Ubuntu Notes

Get creative and submit your artwork to this year’s Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase. The theme is Freedom. ...

Canonical
13 January 2011

Can We Appropriate Design?

Ubuntu Research

’Appropriation’ – the taking of a product and using it for one’s own purposes, in ways unintended by the product creators – is implicitly at the core of the philosophy of opensource, because openness provides for change, adaptation and innovation. Design specifications Last year, I conducted several research projects to understand how d ...

Canonical
13 January 2011

Bright, light and beautiful!

Ubuntu Design

That’s what we want the Ubuntu desktops in Natty to feel like. We’re changing things a little bit for the coming release too. We’ll still feature some fantastic photography sourced from our Flickr group but this time we’re reserving at least 3 places for non photographic wallpapers, so things that are rendered or drawn. The ...

Canonical
4 January 2011

Hebrew and Arabic on track

Ubuntu Design

Although I haven’t posted much recently we have still been working away. Besides the latest update to Version 0.7 of the core fonts, which posed some technical challenges, we have now finalised the Hebrew Regular and are making good tracks with the Arabic. You may remember the earlier post on the subject of the Hebrew ...

Canonical
21 December 2010

Canonical and the Ubuntu project say Happy Holidays with the Ubuntu Font Family released for the web

Desktop News

Google and the Ubuntu project have today released the Ubuntu Font Family to the world through the Google Font Directory.Through the magic of the Google Font API any web designer can now pick Ubuntu from the Google Font Directory and bring the beauty and legibility of the Ubuntu fonts to their web properties. Using Ubuntu ...

Canonical
16 December 2010

Ubuntu helps KnowledgeTree build client base and reduce costs

Ubuntu Case study

Innovative cloud solution serves 200 times the clients for a quarter of the cost Summary KnowledgeTree wanted to introduce a Software as a Service (SaaS) version of its popular document management solution. Its new infrastructure needed to be scalable, responsive and easy to manage. KnowledgeTree worked with Canonical partner RightScale t ...

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