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Canonical
21 December 2010

Canonical and the Ubuntu project say Happy Holidays with the Ubuntu Font Family released for the web

Desktop News

Google and the Ubuntu project have today released the Ubuntu Font Family to the world through the Google Font Directory.Through the magic of the Google Font API any web designer can now pick Ubuntu from the Google Font Directory and bring the beauty and legibility of the Ubuntu fonts to their web properties. Using Ubuntu ...

Marcus Haslam
20 December 2010

Design Museum exhibition London

Ubuntu Notes

Something exciting next year Bruno Maag from Dalton Maag has been asked by the Design Museum London to put on an exhibition of his work. This is a collaboration between ourselves and DM, the exhibition will be in two parts a substantial part of which will be featuring the Ubuntu font. Exhibition from 28th January ...

admin
16 December 2010

Skalica City Hall reduces costs by 70 per cent with Ubuntu

Desktop Case study

Landscape systems management simplifies maintenance Summary Based in Slovakia, the Skalica City Hall IT team must provide a reliable and easy-to-use desktop infrastructure to 120 users. The team found that its existing Microsoft Windows XP-based environment was too expensive to upgrade. It decided to switch to Ubuntu Desktop Edition and a ...

Canonical
16 December 2010

Ubuntu helps KnowledgeTree build client base and reduce costs

Ubuntu Case study

Innovative cloud solution serves 200 times the clients for a quarter of the cost Summary KnowledgeTree wanted to introduce a Software as a Service (SaaS) version of its popular document management solution. Its new infrastructure needed to be scalable, responsive and easy to manage. KnowledgeTree worked with Canonical partner RightScale t ...

Canonical
14 December 2010

Surveying contributions

Ubuntu Design

If you have ever contributed to an open source project or wish you had got round to it then please can you fill in this survey? http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/36WWXCF It isn’t a quick one, but if you have about 20 minutes to spare then your response would be very much appreciated. I will publish the results on ...

Canonical
10 December 2010

Certification of HP Desktops

Ubuntu Engineering

The well-earned accolade that it ‘just works’ is one of the reasons that Ubuntu has been propelled to the position of the most widely shipped and installed Linux desktop. Behind that accolade are an army of community and professional developers working closely towards the goal of offering a superb quality desktop experience. For many plan ...

Jane Silber
8 December 2010

Thanks and good luck to Matt Asay

Ubuntu Canonical News

Matt Asay joined Canonical in February this year and quickly proved instrumental in aligning strategic goals and operational activities. Unfortunately for us, Matt will be leaving Canonical December 17 for the lure of an early-stage start-up. While his time here has been relatively short, we all appreciate the positive impact he has had i ...

Canonical
8 December 2010

Looking at Ubuntu Brainstorm: Idea #25801

Ubuntu Design

The Ubuntu Technical Board is currently conducting a review of the top ten Brainstorm issues users have raised about Ubuntu, and Matt asked me to investigate Idea #25801: Help the user understand when closing a window does not terminate the app. In other words, figure out to signal to the user that an application will ...

Canonical
7 December 2010

So, you want to provide an API for the world to use?

Ubuntu Design

I conducted 5 qualitative interviews with developers and here are some findings. You have two problems. The first problem is to design the API. The second is to help people learn to use it. Great API design Is consistent, predictable, learnable. You are creating an API that developers will interact with. In the same way ...

Canonical
1 December 2010

Ubuntu for the Enterprise: Five Steps to Ensure Successful Adoption webinar

Ubuntu Server

Please join Canonical and Centrify on Thursday, 2 December 2010 at 9 a.m. PST to learn how organizations are enabling the broader deployment of Ubuntu by integrating it into their existing Active Directory infrastructure and management processes. By using Centrify’s Canonical-certified solution, they can go beyond simply offering transpar ...

Canonical
1 December 2010

Canonical celebrates new UA: Landscape interface with Ubuntu Advantage free trial offer

Cloud and server News

New interface significantly eases feature deployment for systems management tool Canonical today announced a free trial to showcase the entirely new interface for its systems management solution, Ubuntu Advantage: Landscape. Landscape has been available to Ubuntu users for four years and is now part of the Ubuntu Advantage service from Ca ...

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