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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.

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18 October 2010

What is UDS?

Phone and tablet Notes

We’ve been talking a lot about UDS but some of you out there might not know what it is. Duncan McGregor, one of my colleagues, has had this very conversation with a speaker who will be attending this UDS. He took some time to compose a blog post explaining what the summit is all about. ...

Canonical
18 October 2010

Designing on Ubuntu

Ubuntu Article

The recent Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase competition produced some good work. Lots of great photos and plenty of interesting music tracks were submitted.But only four videos…This made me think. Why only four? Was it because we didn’t talk about it enough? Or maybe there’s just not that many Ubuntu users interested in video and animation? O ...

Canonical
15 October 2010

This week in design – 15 October 2010

Ubuntu Design

It’s out! We did it! YES! Well done everyone. Thanks for your support in helping make this latest release a good one. Our Meerkat is all grown up so what’s next? Well, we have a Narwhal on the way and it’s up to all of us to make him that little bit Natty 😉 For ...

Canonical
15 October 2010

A space odyssey

Ubuntu Design

Time flies and it’s already time for our next blog entry on the design of the Ubuntu font suite. Below my colleague Fabio Haag explains the joys of spacing and kerning. Type designer from past to present all agree on one thing: the spacing between the letters is as important as the letters themselves, if ...

Canonical
11 October 2010

42 day widget

Ubuntu Notes

Yesterday we successfully released the new versions of Ubuntu family. As you all know, yesterday was such a special date which occurs every 100 years: 10/10/10. But if you are a fan of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, as we are, you would also know that 42 is THE answer. Since 101010 is 42 ...

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8 October 2010

This week in design – 8 October 2010

Ubuntu Design

It’s release week! That means that the Millbank London office and home office locations this week are a buzz with activity getting things ready for our big release on Sunday. The members of the kernel team, and others, are modeling our very swanky new banners which are going out to eligible loco teams in the ...

Canonical
7 October 2010

Latest Ubuntu 10.10 Desktop Edition puts focus on consumers and mobile

Desktop News

Ubuntu 10.10 adds features for desktop and netbook users London, October 7, 2010: Canonical today announced the upcoming availability of Ubuntu 10.10 Desktop and Netbook Editions for download on Sunday, October 10. Focused on home and mobile computing users, Ubuntu 10.10 introduces an array of online and offline applications to Ubuntu Des ...

Canonical
7 October 2010

Latest Ubuntu 10.10 Server Edition makes cloud deployment easier than ever

Cloud and server News

Canonical to sponsor users with free cloud time on Amazon EC2 to let users experience improvements for themselves Canonical today announced the upcoming availability of Ubuntu 10.10 Server Edition for download on Sunday, October 10 — making it easier to configure, update and run both in development and deployment environments of public cl ...

Canonical
4 October 2010

Centralised logging with rsyslog

Ubuntu White paper

The management of multiple systems requires the setup of tools to control the servers behaviour in real time and post analysis. Moreover, regulations and best practices often require the IT department to maintain an accurate log of all events happening in their systems in order to allow for later analysis. Performing such analysis on each ...

Canonical
4 October 2010

Wikimedia chooses Ubuntu for all of its servers

Desktop Case study

Background Most people with a passing acquaintance with a browser or Google search know Wikipedia, the web-based encyclopedia spanning topics from the ridiculous to the sublime. Want Britney Spear’s bio? It’s there. Want a quick briefing in quantum mechanics? It too, is there. Type the name of a subject into any online search engine and ...

Canonical
4 October 2010

The weird and wonderful world of Latin Extended B

Ubuntu Design

Below, Amelie Bonet from the Dalton Maag design team shares her thoughts: Latin Extended B is a block (0180-024F) within the Unicode standard. With its utterly mundane name no-one would guess the wealth of shapes and glyphs. This specific and somehow obscure character set gathers 195 glyphs supporting a good mix of languages from Romania ...

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