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Canonical
24 July 2009

Karmic desktop contest script

Ubuntu Design

I wrote a quick-and-dirty Haskell script to download photos from the Karmic Desktop Contest, setting a new photo as your desktop background every ten minutes. Make sure you cabal install flickr first. ...

Canonical
21 July 2009

Canonical releases source code for Launchpad

Cloud and server News

Release of Launchpad to encourage innovation Canonical, the founder of the Ubuntu project, announced today that it has open-sourced the code that runs Launchpad, the software development and collaboration platform used by tens of thousands of developers. Launchpad is used to build Ubuntu and thousands of other projects, and its users can ...

Canonical
20 July 2009

Featured paper cut: Nautilus, simplified

Ubuntu Design

I thought I’d share a fun paper cut from this week’s milestone that has seen some interesting developments. The proposed changes (and discussion) have grown larger than paper cut size, but some progress was made (resulting in a PPA for you to try) and you may find the work fascinating like I do. The paper ...

Canonical
17 July 2009

Ubuntu Flickr photo submissions

Ubuntu Design

The flickr group photos are coming along very well! ( http://www.flickr.com/groups/ubuntu-artwork/ ) Keep up the good work! ...

Canonical
9 July 2009

Karmic wallpapers

Ubuntu Design

Ubuntu would like to include a beautiful set of images for our users to choose from in our next release. In order to accomplish this we have set up a wiki page to explain things and guidelines for inclusion.In addition we’ve started a flickr group to a ...

Canonical
7 July 2009

Test drive Ubuntu on your Mac with Ubuntu.app

Ubuntu Design

During Gran Canaria Desktop Summit, Ivanka Majic, Kalle Persson, Andreas Nilsson, and I had a conversation about exposing designers to the growing momentum behind free software usability and design. People interested in contributing graphic design or usability work who use Macs represent a largely untapped source of talent; I’ve found it ...

Canonical
1 July 2009

Canonical delves deeper into the cloud, launches Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud services

Cloud and server News

Partners with Eucalyptus to offer ‘private cloud’ assessment, proof-of-concept and support services. Canonical, the founder of the Ubuntu project, today launched new professional services to help and support users building ‘private clouds’, cloud infrastructures behind a corporate firewall. The move follows the technical preview in April ...

Canonical
8 June 2009

More of Ubuntu Training for Europe

Ubuntu Canonical News

With numerous new government backed Open Source initiatives kicking off in The Netherlands, we’ve decided to lead the way and ensure that Ubuntu training is widely available. Having training locations in every major Dutch city, AT Computing and Ictivity Training will provide authorised Ubuntu training from this summer. The first Ubuntu Ce ...

Canonical
2 June 2009

Computex sees Ubuntu at the heart of the computing ecosystem

Ubuntu Desktop

Computex starts on June 2 in Taipei and, as every year, sees the world’s PC industry come together to discuss the development of the next generation of notebooks, netbooks and soon-to-be-released products. Canonical has been attending for the last three years and now, if the announcements are any indication, is very much at the centre ...

Canonical
2 June 2009

Sandisk collaborates to improve SSDs on Ubuntu netbooks

Desktop News

Canonical announces detail of collaboration with SanDisk to better support Ubuntu Ubuntu sponsor and leading solid state drive manufacturer share expertise to provide better Linux experience on both netbooks and laptops Canonical today announced that it has been collaborating with SanDisk, the global leader in flash memory cards, to impro ...

Canonical
31 May 2009

Breathe icons 1st release

Ubuntu Design

The Breathe icon team just announced their initial release. Check it out if you haven’t seen it yet on the ubuntu wiki or on gnome-look.They’ve come a long way and are moving ahead at a steady pace. Breathe is an excellent example of the ubuntu artwork ...

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