Canonical
Canonical produces Ubuntu, provides commercial services for Ubuntu's users, and works with hardware manufacturers, software vendors and cloud partners to certify Ubuntu.
1486 posts by Canonical
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Lucid Community Artwork push
by Canonical on 10 February 2010
Lucid is well under way so I thought it is time to remind everyone of a few initiatives you might want to get involved with:The Ubuntu Artwork wallpaper...
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Lucid Paper Cuts Round 9 Progress Report
by Canonical on 9 February 2010
One Hundred Paper Cuts for Lucid is going well. 56 paper cuts have been fixed so far. We have to fix at least 20 more paper cuts to match the number of paper...
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Dressing for the occasion
by Canonical on 8 February 2010
Watching a new Nena video today on VIVA, I realized that a) she’s hot for her age but makes crap music and b) I really need an evil-bunny-man...
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Improved window management shortcuts land in Lucid
by Canonical on 5 February 2010
Sebastian Bacher landed improved Compiz keyboard shortcucts in Lucid this week during the distro sprint in Portland, Oregon (which is by far the best sprint...
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Matt Asay joins Canonical as COO
by Canonical on 5 February 2010
We are delighted to welcome Matt Asay to the Canonical fold, taking up the role of Chief Operating Officer with immediate effect. The details can be found in...
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Open source industry veteran Matt Asay joins Canonical as chief operating officer
by Canonical on 5 February 2010
Canonical Ltd., the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, announced today that open source industry veteran Matt Asay has joined the company as chief operating...
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Ending poverty with open hardware
by Canonical on 5 February 2010
The Hexayurt is a new kind of sheltering solution. To make the simplest hexayurt, make a wall by putting six sheets of plywood on their sides in a hexagon....
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Do I really want to touch my computer all day?
by Canonical on 3 February 2010
This concept video has been doing the rounds following a brief showing on Tech Crunch. It looks like a tablet interface you could do work on but I have to...
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Platform sprint in Portland
by Canonical on 2 February 2010
The Ubuntu platform sprint in Portland, Oregon has been an amazing experience. We’ve gotten loads of work done and are having a great time in a wonderful...
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Lucid Paper Jam update!
by Canonical on 26 January 2010
I thought I’d write a quick update on paper cut progress for Lucid. Last week was our “Sound & Video” paper jam. The following paper cuts were fixed:Totem:...
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Improving Launchpad bug workflow for opportunistic programmers
by Canonical on 24 January 2010
I’m a talented software engineer. I have a good deal of application programming experience on Windows, Mac OS, Linux, iPhone, Android, and the Web. I’m crazy...