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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.

Canonical
23 July 2010

This week in design – 23 July 2010

Ubuntu Notes

Edition 2 of this week in design kicks off with news of Stack Exchange, a bit about the distro sprint in Prague and an amazing achievement by our Design Team Lead as she walks for a very very long time in aid of Oxfam! ...

Canonical
22 July 2010

Native readers: extending the Beta

Ubuntu Notes

It is time to extend the Ubuntu Font Beta Testing. We need to make sure that the Ubuntu font is being fully exercised beyond the English language and I do not want to rely on accidental incidents but rather explicitly add people from the translations teams for various languages (and alphabets). Today we have started ...

Canonical
21 July 2010

Canonical brings IBM DB2 software to Ubuntu on the coud

Cloud and server News

Virtual appliances of DB2 for Ubuntu users enable fast, easy deployment OSCON, Portland Oregon – Canonical Ltd., the company behind Ubuntu, has launched a virtual appliance of IBM’s DB2 Express-C software running on the Ubuntu cloud computing platform in private and public cloud configurations. Canonical also announced that IBM has comple ...

Canonical
16 July 2010

This week in design – 16th July 2010

Ubuntu Design

In this first ever “This week in design”, Iain updates us on the work the design team have been doing on guidelines, the desktop and the font. We also name some community helpers lending their support. ...

Canonical
16 July 2010

Friday afternoon treats…

Ubuntu Design

I came across a thread this afternoon talking about a piece of promotional work by Goce Mitevski for Ubuntu.Simple, elegant and clean. Lovely. ...

Canonical
14 July 2010

Vote now for a more supportive future!

Ubuntu Design

Evan, seen lurking here in the background, has a favour to ask. Stackoverflow is a website that allows professional and enthusiast developers to ask questions of one another in order to share ideas, solutions and make the life of developers better. It’s an extremely high quality resource but those clever folks over at Stack Overflow ...

Canonical
13 July 2010

Canonical and the Ubuntu UK community invite you to the “Ubuntu In Business” event on July 13th in central London

Desktop News

A new kind of tech event sees advocates combine to bring the open-source message direct to UK businesses Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, and the Ubuntu UK Community are jointly hosting an event aimed at introducing Ubuntu direct to UK businesses. Ubuntu is extremely popular with desktop users and widely used in UK datacentres as ...

Canonical
8 July 2010

Ubuntu font: what the glyph!

Ubuntu Notes

Having read some of the comments and bugs I thought it might be useful to add some clarification on a couple of terms. What we have released so far is only the regular weight of the font. Fonts – in general – come in many weights from ultra-light to ultra-bold. The fact that regular is ...

Canonical
7 July 2010

The Ubuntu Font Family

Ubuntu Design

Ladies and Gentlemen, Today we are kicking off the Ubuntu Font BETA testing. This is a happy day! Today all Ubuntu Members will have access to a private PPA so that they can use, test and enjoy the font. The first four variants of the font family are scheduled for completion 8 August 2010 and ...

Canonical
6 July 2010

Never judge a book by its cover!

Ubuntu Notes

Ubuntu Software Center has amazing improvements lined-up for Maverick Meerkat and early alpha adopters are highly excited about the progress. However, what is Ubuntu Software Center? It’s merely a container, it’s only as good as the content within. We’re already aware it’s a show-stopper for new Ubuntu users and there is a papercut milest ...

Canonical
2 July 2010

Showcase to celebrate ‘Art in the Open’ bringing contributors’ work to millions

Desktop News

Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase calls all artists to contribute to next version of Ubuntu Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu project, today announced its support for the Ubuntu Free Culture showcase. The showcase will offer artists, photographers, and musicians of every background the opportunity to have their work ship with Ubuntu 10. ...

Canonical
30 June 2010

Doing the Polka (dot), step by step

Ubuntu Design

Anyone who has seen the new visual identity for Ubuntu and Canonical probably noticed the marketing material includes several stunning images created of differently sized dots; inside the Ubuntu Lucid CD sleeve, on banners and such. What most probably ...

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