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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 ...


Jane Silber
17 December 2009

Management changes at Canonical

Ubuntu Canonical News

As Mark Shuttleworth has announced I will have the privilege of leading Canonical from March of next year. I am excited about the role, energised by the opportunities in front of us, and humbled by the collection of amazing and talented individuals in Canonical and the Ubuntu community.  Mark will continue to play a major ...


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 😉 ...


Chris Kenyon
19 November 2009

Google Chrome OS and Canonical

Ubuntu Article

Congratulations to Google on the open sourcing of Google Chrome OS When Chrome OS was announced in June we saw this as a positive development, bringing choice to the consumer. We considered how open source development is as much about co-operation as it is about competition. Google have made it clear that they are keen ...