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Blog posts with topic "smart-display"

Carla Berkers
20 May 2014

Sticky notes and a mobile first approach

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

As the number of Juju users has been rapidly increasing over the past year, so has the number of new solutions in the form of charms and bundles. To help users assess and choose solutions we felt it would be useful to improve the visual presentation of charm and bundle details on manage.jujucharms.com. While we ...

Inayaili de León Persson
19 May 2014

Making ubuntu.com responsive: scoping the work (6)

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. Following the designers and developers sprint, we had a full web team workshop day to discuss our findings and plan the work for the following weeks. Planning and scoping was tricky because we had to balance the work required to make the site responsive with ...

Jon Melamut
15 May 2014

Huge downloads for Ubuntu Kylin 14.04 LTS, first OEM partner announced

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

Over the last few months we’ve seen significant traction with Ubuntu Kylin among users and PC hardware manufacturers. Downloads from the Ubuntu Kylin community sites in China are continuing to gain momentum, with over three million people downloading Ubuntu Kylin in the first 12 months. The initial adoption of Ubuntu Kylin 14.04 LTS, lau ...

Canonical
15 May 2014

The browser is dead. Long live the browser!

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

With the unstoppable rise of mobile apps, some pundits within the tech industry have hastily demoted the mobile web to a second-class citizen, or even dismissed it as ‘dead’. Who cares about websites and webapps when you can deliver a superior user experience with a native app? Well, we care because the reality is a ...

Canonical
14 May 2014

NUDT and Canonical bring OpenStack to world’s fastest supercomputer

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

China’s National University of Defense Technology, NUDT, developers of the Tianhe-2 supercomputer, and Canonical, the organisation behind Ubuntu, today announce a collaboration to bring OpenStack to the world’s fastest supercomputer for high performance cloud environments. The new collaboration with Canonical will enable Ubuntu Server, Ub ...

Dustin Kirkland
13 May 2014

Ubuntu announcements from the Atlanta OpenStack Summit

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Atlanta, Tuesday May 13th 2014 Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and Canonical, made several announcements on stage at the OpenStack Summit today. The themes of the Summit so far have been set by the SuperUsers – users of OpenStack who have been helping shape the development of OpenStack to ensure it better meets the needs ...

Dustin Kirkland
13 May 2014

Jumpstart Training with the Orange Box

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Two full days of technical training, covering Ubuntu, MAAS, Juju, Landscape, and OpenStack. We are delighted to introduce a new delivery mechanism for Jumpstarts, leveraging the innovative Orange Box! We’ll deliver an Orange Box to your office, and work with you for two days, learning the ins and outs of Ubuntu, MAAS, Juju, Landscape, an ...

Mark Baker
13 May 2014

Fast with an extra helping of faster

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Today AMD announced a set of industry benchmark performance records for hyperscale OpenStack running on Ubuntu OpenStack (Icehouse) and AMD’s SeaMicro SM15000™ system. The benchmarking, which is the largest known demonstration of OpenStack scalability ever, highlights how OpenStack can quickly and reliably provision on-demand computing. A ...

Mark Baker
12 May 2014

Ubuntu at OpenStack Atlanta

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Canonical has been at every OpenStack Summit contributing to its success. The Juno Summit in Atlanta is no exception and as with previous events we have exciting new development with Ubuntu OpenStack to show. As well as showcasing the new features in Ubuntu OpenStack, based on Ubuntu’s latest 14.04 LTS and OpenStack’s IceHouse, talking ab ...

Alejandra Obregon
9 May 2014

What happens in Vegas doesn’t always stay in Vegas…

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

Last week a few of us flew to Las Vegas for a Juju sprint at the world-famous Flamingo casino (where Hunter S. Thompson stayed in Fear and Loathing). It was the first time in Las Vegas for most of us so we weren’t quite sure what to expect… And while there were plenty of distractions ...

Tom Macfarlane
1 May 2014

New DVD design for 14.04 LTS

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

The new DVD designs feature: Desktop Edition – 14.04 wallpaper – Modified design of the folded paper numerals Server Edition – An integrated, 14 module graphic Trusty Tahr – hidden reveal within the DVD pocket Design exploration – folded paper numerals Design exploration – graphic numerals Alternative Desktop Edition concepts Alternative ...