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

One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 8 Progress Report

by Canonical on 28 August 2009

One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 8 came and went last week, and good progress was made:Login screen clock has AM/PM suffix despite 24-hour formatTed M Lin...

Canonical at VMWorld 2009

by Canonical on 26 August 2009

Next week (31 August through 3 September) VMorld 2009 kicks off in San Francisco at the Moscone Center. For the second year, Canonical has a booth to...

One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 7 Progress Report

by Canonical on 20 August 2009

One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 7 drew to a close last week. Here are the paper cuts that were (or were not) addressed:GNOME Panel icons (on right side) move...

One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 6 Progress Report

by Canonical on 11 August 2009

One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 6 contained some of the easiest-to-fix paper cuts we’ve seen so far, but it made less progress than any previous milestone....

One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 5 Progress Report

by Canonical on 10 August 2009

Without further ado, here’s an update on the fifth round of the One Hundred Paper Cuts project. The paper cuts addressed were:When nautilus cannot unmount a...

One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 4 Progress Report

by Canonical on 4 August 2009

The fourth milestone in the One Hundred Paper Cuts project came and went over a week ago. Here’s a summary of the issues addressed:F-Spot puts photos in...

Landscape System Management Tool Adds Dedicated Server

by Canonical on 4 August 2009

Today we are announcing the Landscape Dedicated Server Edition — a stand alone version of Landscape that users can install on-site giving them complete...

New individual desktop services

by Canonical on 31 July 2009

The last few years have seen a dramatic increase in the size and reach of the Ubuntu community while netbooks have brought many new consumer users to Ubuntu. ...

Canonical to offer Ubuntu Desktop support and services

by Canonical on 31 July 2009

New offerings to individuals and small businesses to ease transition to fastest growing Linux desktop Canonical, the founder of the Ubuntu project,announced...

Distributed user testing of archive behavior in Ubuntu

by Canonical on 28 July 2009

In response to two paper cuts, “Have the file-roller automatically extract an archive on double click” and “‘Archive Manager’ doesn’t mean anything if you...

Karmic desktop contest script

by Canonical on 24 July 2009

I wrote a quick-and-dirty Haskell script to download photos from the Karmic Desktop Contest, setting a new photo as your desktop background every ten minutes....

Canonical releases source code for Launchpad

by Canonical on 21 July 2009

Release of Launchpad to encourage innovation Canonical, the founder of the Ubuntu project, announced today that it has open-sourced the code that runs...