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23 posts from April 2010
Reasons to celebrate 29th April 2010
By Canonical, 29 April 2010
One of the first things I did when I joined Canonical just over a year ago was conduct some user research. The idea was to identify some broad areas that...
Ubuntu visual identity
By Canonical, 28 April 2010
Drum roll please….After a *lot* of amazing effort from the Canonical design team I am pleased to announce that preliminary Ubuntu visual identity is online...
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Desktop Edition: faster boot speed and a new design
By Canonical, 27 April 2010
Long-term support (LTS) version of popular desktop operating system generally available on 29 April Canonical announced today the upcoming release of Ubuntu...
When it comes to social networking what are you? Door, Mirror, Room?
By Canonical, 27 April 2010
Everyone belongs to one, two or more social networking sites. At Canonical, we wondered “What does social networking mean to people?” I set off to find out. ...
A global menu for Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition
By Mark Shuttleworth, 27 April 2010
The Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition will use a single consolidated menu, displayed in the panel, rather than individual menus in each application window.
Canonical announces strong ISV and open source ecosystem support for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
By Canonical, 27 April 2010
Canonical announces strong ISV and open source ecosystem support for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Canonical today revealed strong software vendor support for the upcoming...
Canonical’s Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server Edition features the ideal deployment platform for Linux server workloads and cloud computing
By Canonical, 27 April 2010
Long-term support (LTS) version of popular server operating system generally available on 29 April Canonical today announced the upcoming release of Ubuntu...
Refining the battery status menu
By Matthew Paul Thomas, 23 April 2010
As part of the notification area transition, we’re adapting the Gnome Power Manager item to be a system status menu. We’re interested in your feedback on the...
Magical Mystery Cafe
By Canonical, 23 April 2010
There will be those of you reading this who will say “only in Japan” and ordinarily I would shy away from that sort of thing but in this case I think you’re...
New strategic plan!
By Canonical, 23 April 2010
Came across this on the delightful Swissmiss. We are always in the process of reviewing our development processes a both design and technical to keep them...
Curious displays
By Canonical, 23 April 2010
Video on Vimeo by Julia Yu Tsao showing an interesting, and very futuristic, concept to display information in a physical environment.
Future of eBooks?
By Canonical, 22 April 2010
Video from YouTube of the Element iPad application.