Canonical

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

1483 posts by Canonical

Workarounds

by Canonical on 18 March 2010

I was looking for new phone wallpapers last night and stumbled across loads of examples of this. The iPhone doesn’t have a main calendar screen like other...

Not that kind of bored

by Canonical on 14 March 2010

Inspired by this brilliant picture and wee post over at the Panic Inc. blog I’ve not been able to shake the idea of making a similar status view for us to use...

Andalusia deploys 220,000 Ubuntu desktops in schools throughout the region

by Canonical on 13 March 2010

Summary The Andalusian Regional Government, Spain, wanted to improve access to IT in schools throughout the region. It asked IT services company...

Love it from it’s Lucid ears to little Lucid toeses!

by Canonical on 12 March 2010

I really can’t tell you how exciting a place to be Canonical towers is right now! Yes, it’s hard work keeping up with all the feedback from the community,...

Intel, Eucalyptus and Canonical join forces to help user build cloud infrastructures confidently

by Canonical on 11 March 2010

A few weeks ago myself and Dustin Kirkland had the privilege of travelling to the Intel facility in Hillsboro, Oregon to work with Billy Cox, Rekha Raghu,...

Those pesky buttons

by Canonical on 10 March 2010

Many of you have been asking for some correspondence regarding the button position in the window manager.Here it is.At Ubuntu we have a golden opportunity not...

OS X Ubuntu USB Creator

by Canonical on 9 March 2010

I’ve spent some time attempting to make a Cocoa that lets you burn an Ubuntu ISO to a USB memory stick on OS X.I think I’ve got as far as I’m gonna get with...

Weekly design team picture

by Canonical on 8 March 2010

Here’s a photo of Iain, design team project manager, edited to expose his love of colour:

New in Lucid…

by Canonical on 5 March 2010

If you’re running lucid with the latest updates be sure to try click n’ drag the window from anywhere in the top dark area. In other words, the windeco and...

Making the computer work for YOU

by Canonical on 5 March 2010

Yukihiro Matsumoto put it better than I ever could: Often people, especially computer engineers, focus on the machines. They think, “By doing this, the...

Reasons to celebrate: 4th March 2010

by Canonical on 4 March 2010

My first year working for Canonical draws to a close with my team delivering a new identity for Ubuntu.I am very proud of the result and would like to thank...

Upcoming 10.04 LTS webinars for ISVs

by Canonical on 3 March 2010

The April release of the next LTS version of Ubuntu on server and desktop is certainly generating a lot of excitement internally, in our customer base and...