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
Ubuntu
November Brown Bag lunch
by Canonical on 15 November 2013
Some of us in the Design team have been gathering on a monthly basis to have lunch together and share things we find interesting to us. Today, I’d like to...
Ubuntu
Conducting Usability Testing: a case of just following the task script?
by Canonical on 11 November 2013
In the previous post, we talked about how to design effective user testing tasks to evaluate the usability of an interface. This post continues with this...
Ubuntu
App Design Clinic #4
by Canonical on 11 November 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHs0bYWcq-E App design Clinic #4 focuses on icons, with questions from Stuart Langridge including: guidance on creating app...
Ubuntu
Trademarks, community and criticism
by Canonical on 8 November 2013
Recently some concerns were expressed by fixubuntu.com, a website focusing on Ubuntu privacy, about a routine trademark enforcement email that Canonical sent....
Cloud and server
Deploying Web Applications using Juju – (Part 3/3)
by Canonical on 7 November 2013
The goal of this tutorial series is to demonstrate the power of Juju service orchestration for deploying web applications and infrastructure services. Juju is...
Cloud and server
A week in San Francisco
by Canonical on 7 November 2013
I recently attended my first cloud sprint meeting held in San Francisco, and it turned out to be a great experience. It’s been 10 years since I last visited,...
Cloud and server
Canonical keynote: building business value through interoperability
by Canonical on 5 November 2013
Watch Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical and Ubuntu, create an entire Ubuntu OpenStack cloud from scratch using building blocks chosen by his live...
Cloud and server
Ubuntu OIL announced for broadest set of cloud infrastructure options
by Canonical on 5 November 2013
Today at the OpenStack Design Summit in Hong Kong, we announced the Ubuntu OpenStack Interoperability Lab (Ubuntu OIL). The programme will test and validate...
Cloud and server
Hit the ground running with Ubuntu OpenStack training
by Canonical on 30 October 2013
Canonical was the first company to commercially distribute and support OpenStack, under the Ubuntu Cloud Infrastructure brand. Ubuntu is also the reference...
Cloud and server
Hadoop Buyer’s Guide
by Canonical on 29 October 2013
Big Data comes with big choices, in every way! From the tools you use to the investment you make in people and infrastructure. Although Hadoop is arguably the...
Ubuntu
Indented styles and the Ubuntu shape
by Canonical on 25 October 2013
Since we released the initial demo of Ubuntu on phones, we’ve been looking at refining the whole Suru theme — the theme on Ubuntu for phones and tablets — and...
Ubuntu
App Design Clinic #3
by Canonical on 23 October 2013
Today’s clinic included: A discussion of launcher placement, Brad Well’s Bible app – general design guidance Michael Zanetti’s uAuthenticator app – general...