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Canonical
11 June 2014

Juju logo pack

Ubuntu Downloads

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Canonical
11 June 2014

Ubuntu logo pack

Ubuntu Downloads

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Making ubuntu.com responsive: updating font sizes and increasing readability (11)

Ubuntu Featured

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. All our designs are created using the Ubuntu font, and the websites are not exception. Ubuntu.com was already using a carefully refined and tested typographic scale that we have evolved over the years. Early in the project, we had decided that the large screen view ...


Canonical
10 June 2014

Malta Sprint

Ubuntu User Experience

Our Apps and Platform teams took part at a design/engineering sprint on the beautiful island of Malta in May, and we thought we would share some pics to show a peek into “behing the scenes” and people working on the apps and operating system. The sprint itself was a great experience, with over 150 people, engineers and ...


Maarten Ectors
9 June 2014

Instant telecom integration and NFV is now a reality

Cloud and server Article

At TADHack in Madrid, Metaswitch, Telestax and Canonical proved that instant telecom integration and NFV is now a reality. We showed that anybody can  deploy, integrate and scale a telecom solution in minutes on any public cloud, private cloud or bare-metal server with Juju. Traditionally a telecom integrator installs an IMS in 12 months ...


Canonical
9 June 2014

Cueing up users

Ubuntu Featured

The bottom edge swipe gesture is simple and accessible for users, so it’s strategic for application developers. By giving instant access to the most needed settings, controls, and views through the bottom edge, app developers have a powerful tool for crafting more useful and usable experiences. In earlier postings we’ve talked about how t ...


Making ubuntu.com responsive: dealing with responsive images (10)

Ubuntu Featured

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. Deciding how you’re going to handle responsive images is a big part of most responsive projects — also, one that usually causes many headaches! We had really interesting discussions within the team to try to find out which options were out there, being used by ...


Canonical
4 June 2014

Showcasing Ubuntu at Mobile Asia Expo 2014

Phone and tablet Article

Shanghai’s Mobile Asia Expo kicks off this week and we’ll be there to show how Ubuntu has re-invented the way users engage with content and services. We’ll also be running Ubuntu on Meizu MX3 phones, taking part in Innovation Lab sessions and talking to the industry about our mobile strategy. China’s leading high-end smartphone manufactur ...


John Zannos
3 June 2014

IBM App Throwdown – Canonical’s Juju selected as top five finalist

Cloud and server Article

IBM is holding a contest for developing solutions for its new Power8 server architecture.  We’re thrilled that our service orchestration tool, Juju, ported to IBM’s Power8 CPU has been selected as one of the top five finalists. You can show your support and vote for Juju by tweeting anything that includes “@ubuntucloud #ibminnovateapp”, o ...


Canonical
3 June 2014

Canonical announces expanded Ubuntu support for the Cavium workload

Cloud and server News

Optimisation for deployment and provisioning cloud based workloads at scale London and Computex TAIPEI, Taiwan, June 3, 2014 – Canonical today announced expanded support for the ThunderX SoC family from Cavium, Inc., (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for enterprise, data centre ...


Canonical
2 June 2014

Deploying OpenStack all day long: The maths behind the magic.

Cloud and server Article

Reflecting on my team’s experience at the OpenStack Summit in Atlanta, it was a lot of fun and truly inspiring. Once again Canonical’s presence at the OpenStack Summit was driven by doing things “for real”. Whether it’s in Mark Shuttleworth’s keynote, where he deployed multiple OpenStack clouds on multiple platforms, or indeed deploying O ...