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Canonical
24 March 2010

Ubuntu Server Survey 2010 released

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

We are ready to release the report on the server survey, the information for which was gathered at the tail end of 2009 by the server community in collaboration with Canonical. The survey contained a vast array of questions, many of which were general and many others user-prompted depending on previous response. We are grateful ...

Canonical
24 March 2010

Ada Lovelace and the Turing Test

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

In Computing Machinery and Intelligence, Alan Turing describes the famous Turing test for detecting machine intelligence. Did you know that Turing’s thesis was heavily influenced by Ada Lovelace’s critique of Babbage’s Analytical Engine, wherein she states that “the Analytical Engine has no pretensions to originate anything,” arguing that ...

Canonical
24 March 2010

It’s Ada Lovelace Day

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

I’ve always liked Ada. She was the first to see the musical potential of computers. Here, look at this old blog post in which I mention her. As proof! Homebrew Adventures 😉A tip of my hat to Ada then. And tips all round to that small elite of n ...

Canonical
18 March 2010

Workarounds

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

I was looking for new phone wallpapers last night and stumbled across loads of examples of this. The iPhone doesn’t have a main calendar screen like other manufacturers but what I love about this is the way that people have made do and shared their work with the world. There are themed ones, valentines ones, ...

Canonical
14 March 2010

Not that kind of bored

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

Inspired by this brilliant picture and wee post over at the Panic Inc. blog I’ve not been able to shake the idea of making a similar status view for us to use when designing Ubuntu and related products. We’re always looking to enhance our processes and what I really like the idea of is creating ...

Canonical
13 March 2010

Andalusia deploys 220,000 Ubuntu desktops in schools throughout the region

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

Summary The Andalusian Regional Government, Spain, wanted to improve access to IT in schools throughout the region. It asked IT services company infrastructure to connect 2,000 schools in Andalusia. Isotrol implemented 220,000 Ubuntu-based workstations in more than 2,000 schools throughout the region. Now, technology plays an integral rol ...

Canonical
12 March 2010

Love it from it’s Lucid ears to little Lucid toeses!

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

I really can’t tell you how exciting a place to be Canonical towers is right now! Yes, it’s hard work keeping up with all the feedback from the community, we’re terrifyingly close to a release and have to deliver final and updated assets until the cows come home and YES it’s UDS in 8 weeks ...

Canonical
11 March 2010

Intel, Eucalyptus and Canonical join forces to help user build cloud infrastructures confidently

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

A few weeks ago myself and Dustin Kirkland had the privilege of travelling to the Intel facility in Hillsboro, Oregon to work with Billy Cox, Rekha Raghu, Paul Guermonprez, Trevor Cooper and Kamal Natesan of Intel and Dan Nurmi and Neil Soman of Eucalyptus Systems and a few others on developing a proof of concept ...

Canonical
10 March 2010

Those pesky buttons

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

Many of you have been asking for some correspondence regarding the button position in the window manager.Here it is.At Ubuntu we have a golden opportunity not only to make our OS as good as the competition but to make it better. The button position discussion and analysis started with:– Why do Mac OS and Windows ...

Canonical
9 March 2010

OS X Ubuntu USB Creator

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

I’ve spent some time attempting to make a Cocoa that lets you burn an Ubuntu ISO to a USB memory stick on OS X.I think I’ve got as far as I’m gonna get with it now, sadly.How far I got…The UI is pretty conciseA USB stick gets detected when pl ...

Canonical
8 March 2010

Weekly design team picture

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

Here’s a photo of Iain, design team project manager, edited to expose his love of colour: ...

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