Canonical

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

1542 posts by Canonical

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Get your photos into Ubuntu!

by Canonical on 10 February 2010

The coming release will be the second in which we’ve gone out to the wider world to source some gorgeous photos to put into Ubuntu. When you get this fab...

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Lucid Community Artwork push

by Canonical on 10 February 2010

Lucid is well under way so I thought it is time to remind everyone of a few initiatives you might want to get involved with:The Ubuntu Artwork wallpaper...

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Lucid Paper Cuts Round 9 Progress Report

by Canonical on 9 February 2010

One Hundred Paper Cuts for Lucid is going well. 56 paper cuts have been fixed so far. We have to fix at least 20 more paper cuts to match the number of paper...

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Dressing for the occasion

by Canonical on 8 February 2010

Watching a new Nena video today on VIVA, I realized that a) she’s hot for her age but makes crap music and b) I really need an evil-bunny-man...

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New toy

by Canonical on 8 February 2010

Picked up a N900 the other day. It’s really quite amazing. Best of all it’s linux *and* the keyboard is big enough for my thick fingers. The design isn’t as...

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Improved window management shortcuts land in Lucid

by Canonical on 5 February 2010

Sebastian Bacher landed improved Compiz keyboard shortcucts in Lucid this week during the distro sprint in Portland, Oregon (which is by far the best sprint...

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Matt Asay joins Canonical as COO

by Canonical on 5 February 2010

We are delighted to welcome Matt Asay to the Canonical fold, taking up the role of Chief Operating Officer with immediate effect. The details can be found in...

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Open source industry veteran Matt Asay joins Canonical as chief operating officer

by Canonical on 5 February 2010

Canonical Ltd., the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, announced today that open source industry veteran Matt Asay has joined the company as chief operating...

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Ending poverty with open hardware

by Canonical on 5 February 2010

The Hexayurt is a new kind of sheltering solution. To make the simplest hexayurt, make a wall by putting six sheets of plywood on their sides in a hexagon....

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Do I really want to touch my computer all day?

by Canonical on 3 February 2010

This concept video has been doing the rounds following a brief showing on Tech Crunch. It looks like a tablet interface you could do work on but I have to...

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Platform sprint in Portland

by Canonical on 2 February 2010

The Ubuntu platform sprint in Portland, Oregon has been an amazing experience. We’ve gotten loads of work done and are having a great time in a wonderful...