Ubuntu tech blog

Ubuntu for the Enterprise: Five Steps to Ensure Successful Adoption webinar

Please join Canonical and Centrify on Thursday, 2 December 2010 at 9 a.m. PST to learn how organizations are enabling the broader deployment of Ubuntu by...

Canonical celebrates new UA: Landscape interface with Ubuntu Advantage free trial offer

New interface significantly eases feature deployment for systems management tool Canonical today announced a free trial to showcase the entirely new interface...

Participate in research

Are you a developer or systems administrator that uses Ubuntu at work and/or at home?We’re looking for people who might be available to help us on a current...

Papercuts: Litmus test

Papercuts Natty cycle depends on you!What’s new this cycle and How you can get involved.

Here come the Ninjas

Announcing an all new team focused on fixing bugs, Papercuts Ninja team, and why you should be excited!

Paper cuts need you!

You won’t be surprised to hear that I am on the Papercutters team and, in that capacity, was on the receiving end of an email from Vish who points out a...

The monospace is coming

In contrast to a proportionally spaced font a the characters in a monospace occupy all exactly the same width. In the past monospace type was used on...

Usability Testing of Unity

In preparation for UDS, we conducted usability testing of Unity with general public users.  We are now better informed as to where we should expend further...


Newsletter
signup

Get the latest Ubuntu news and updates in your inbox.

By submitting this form, I confirm that I have read and agree to Canonical's Privacy Policy.

This week in design – 12 November 2010

The theme of this week’s update is one of cool stuff that we came across this week in the world of open source. You’ll know from Christian’s blog post a while...

AMTRON delivers 28,000 Ubuntu-based PCs to students in Assam

India-based government information and communication technologies (ICT) provider The Assam Electronics Development Corporation (AMTRON) needed to provide...

La Gendarmerie Nationale upgrades 85,000 PCs to Ubuntu Desktop Edition

Summary La Gendarmerie Nationale's IT team must ensure that the police force can provide a responsive and cost-effective service nationwide. With growing IT...

Canonical welcomes new partners following latest Ubuntu 10.10 release

Ubuntu 10.10 launch in October drew strong partner interest Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, announced today the signing of several significant...

Lower the cost of your data centre with IBM and Canonical webcast

Please join IBM and Canonical on Tuesday, 16 November 2010 at 9:00am PDT / 12:00noon EDT / 15:00pm GMT to hear how the combination of IBM and Canonical...

This week in design – 5 November 2010

We’re back! Phew! What a fortnight! Did you miss us? We all got back from Orlando, Florida this week and prepared to kick off the Natty development cycle in...

Of hinting and tables

I hope regular readers of the design blogs don’t think that we have abandoned our programme of telling you all about the font development – I know it’s been a...

Introducing Ubuntu – The Movie!

Almost all of the design team are in Orlando this week taking part in UDS. As well as getting ready for the summit in the last few weeks we’ve also been...


The source

Explore the vision
behind the code

Curious about where the industry is heading? Visit our sister blog, The Source, where we share Canonical's perspective on the future of open source, insights into our product philosophies, and expert takes on the tech landscape.