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Overlay Scrollbars – Update

When we introduced the new overlay scrollbars we knew it was a bold decision and we were expecting some critics because of the use cases we didn’t support. As...

Most northerly Ubuntu fan?

This week we got a fun update from our traveling team member Ivanka! While passing through Dawson City in northern Canada Ivanka and Nick met Chalsie Warren...

What’s round and sticky and how you can make some!

Some of you out there may have already seen that funky print shop MOO.com just launched a new product, round stickers. This means that you can now upload...

Bridge Construction Set lands on the Software Center

Chronic Logic’s award winning game, Bridge Construction Set, is officially for sale in the Ubuntu Software Center. In Bridge Construction Set you build a...

Puzzle Moppet hits the Ubuntu Software Center

The newest addition to the Ubuntu Software Center is Puzzle Moppet from Garnet Games. The poor little Moppet is lost and all alone in the wilderness. How are...

Ubuntu Billboards: Design on a Grand Scale

It’s been five years since people spotted the last Ubuntu billboards in the wild. This time Mauricio Pretto sent a set of photographs of driving between the...

Kashmiri Arabic script – questions, questions…

We are now putting the two complex scripts Hebrew and Arabic together. Although the basic design of the Arabic was finalised some months ago we have been...

Sharing Ubuntu with the world

We all know Ubuntu is great, but we want even more people to know just how great. With this in mind, we thought we’d give the visitors of ubuntu.com the tools...


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Ubuntu Software Center adds Braid

Braid is the newest addition to the Ubuntu Software Center. Braid is a really cool puzzle game where the player manipulates the flow of time to solve puzzles....

Britain's Got Talent and The Cabinet Office – Ubuntu bedfellows in the public cloud.

Last week saw the culmination of one of the UK’s most popular TV shows – Britain’s Got Talent. The way in which this show over five series has captured the...

Family Farm game in Ubuntu

We added Family Farm to the Software Center last week and I took a few hours (of non-work time!) to have a look at it. Summary is that it’s a fun simulation...

ASUS new Eee PC now available with Ubuntu operating system

LONDON, June 2nd, 2011: Canonical, the sponsor of the Ubuntu project, today announces that Ubuntu is now available pre-loaded on the new ASUS Eee PC series....

Mobica adopting Ubuntu Core for embedded device development

Mobica is partnering with Canonical in the adoption of Ubuntu Core, a sub-set of Ubuntu technologies suited for the next generation of Internet-enabled...

Pelagicore signs up to Ubuntu Core for in-vehicle infotainment development

London June 1st, 2011: Open source automotive infotainment development specialists, Pelagicore has adopted Canonical’s Ubuntu Core to build new embedded...

Celebrate Ubuntu!

At UDS in Budapest we held a session on the idea of a toolkit for community members. It would allow anyone excited enough to show off and celebrate their use...

Ubuntu Showcase, Computex: May 31st

Next week, Canonical will present an executive briefing on developments in Ubuntu Desktop, Cloud and Server. Christopher Kenyon, Canonical EVP, will be...


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