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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
4 December 2013

The Weather Channel comes to Ubuntu on smartphones

Phone and tablet News

The Ubuntu phone is developing fast. Today, it includes all the functionality you’d expect from a smartphone and, with growing support from App partners, relevant apps will be included on Ubuntu smartphones from launch. We’re working with The Weather Channel to ensure its popular weather app will available for Ubuntu users from the moment ...


Canonical
3 December 2013

App Design Clinic #5

Ubuntu Notes

Over the last few months we have been running the App Design Clinic and we want to thank you for all your submissions, contribution and feedback! The Design Clinic happens every two weeks and the last one co-incided with vUDS, so we included more information on general app design as well as answering quesitons. Here’s ...


Canonical
2 December 2013

vUDS November: Design Track sum up!

Ubuntu User Experience

On 19-21 November we had our vUDS where we got to discuss and share with the community some of the design work we’ve been doing recently. Our topics ranged from our design blog to convergence designs to Juju GUI cloud to icon designs! If you missed any of our sessions, don’t worry. They are all ...


Canonical
26 November 2013

Asus and Ubuntu deliver affordable world-class laptops to USA Education

Desktop Article

A quiet revolution is taking place in the global education sector: more and more institutions and students are discovering the value of the Ubuntu operating system. In the USA, Ubuntu partner ASUS has added to its long line of Ubuntu laptops.  The X201E and 1015E  are high-quality, affordable Ubuntu laptops, perfect for education. As Ubun ...


Canonical
19 November 2013

MAAS and Juju in a VM on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS – Part 2

Cloud and server Article

Enterprise environments rely on Ubuntu’s LTS (Long-term Support) release.   Its established two year release cadence and five year security and maintenance updates means sysadmins and developers can plan updates and migrations in advance. So it comes at no surprise, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is the leading reference operating system for OpenStack ...


Canonical
18 November 2013

Video: Ubuntu Cloud technologies on Dell PowerEdge servers

Cloud and server Videos

This video published by the DellTechCenter shows the optimisation of Ubuntu’s cloud technologies, “Juju” and “MAAS”, as used with the Dell PowerEdge servers. Canonical’s Kent Baxley and Dell’s Jose De La Rosa, are the two experienced engineers who have been interviewed. ...


Canonical
15 November 2013

Interested in MAAS and Juju? Here’s how to try it in a VM

Cloud and server Article

The backbone for scale-out workload deployments in Ubuntu, such as big data (Hadoop), cloud (OpenStack), and layered applications is a combination of Metal-as-a-Service (MAAS) and Juju.  These exciting open-source projects, offer groundbreaking functionality and just got better in Ubuntu 13.10! MAAS provisions hardware using existing and ...


Canonical
15 November 2013

November Brown Bag lunch

Ubuntu Notes

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 share with you the Brown Bag lunch we had this week. Vesa shared with us his interest in photography and showed us some of the ...


Canonical
11 November 2013

Conducting Usability Testing: a case of just following the task script?

Ubuntu User Experience

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 topic by highlighting a number of key strategies that you may need to use when conducting a formative user testing, whose main aim is to identify usability problems and ...


Canonical
11 November 2013

App Design Clinic #4

Ubuntu Notes

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 icons (stylistically and in terms of file format and resolution) tips on how to use action icons The presentation deck link will be shared on the blog once it’s been checked by our icon ...


Canonical
8 November 2013

Trademarks, community and criticism

Ubuntu open source

Recently some concerns were expressed by fixubuntu.com, a website focusing on Ubuntu privacy, about a routine trademark enforcement email that Canonical sent. We want to provide some context around this issue. In Ubuntu we cherish an open and diverse discourse, and we welcome differing and challenging views and perspectives; it is the cor ...


Canonical
7 November 2013

Deploying Web Applications using Juju – (Part 3/3)

Cloud and server Article

The goal of this tutorial series is to demonstrate the power of Juju service orchestration for deploying web applications and infrastructure services. Juju is a service orchestration framework that is designed to make it very easy for application designers to deploy their applications in an easy, repeatable and logical manner without all ...