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Canonical renews the Ubuntu certification programme

June 8, Taipei: Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, announced today that it has extended and revised its Hardware Certification Programme for Original...

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Canonical gives businesses the Ubuntu Advantage

Canonical over the last four years or so has brought businesses a growing range of services and software tools to help them make better use of the Ubuntu...

New Canonical services help businesses get ahead with Ubuntu Server and Ubuntu Desktop

“Ubuntu Advantage” provides configurable support services to businesses LONDON, June 7, 2010 — Canonical today introduced Ubuntu Advantage – a comprehensive...

Last week in London and Brussels

I spent the first part of last week in a small room in London with Andrea Cimitan, Daniel Foré and Otto Greenslade working on the amazing Murrine theme engine...

The keyboard menu

A new keyboard menu will replace both the keyboard layout toggle from Ubuntu’s doomed notification area, and the IBus menu for choosing a keyboard input method.

New Ubuntu and Canonical sites

The new Ubuntu and Canonical sites went live today. As well as the visual refresh to include the new brand, the objective was to bring the sites up-to-date...

Landscape 1.5 Released with new Enterprise Features

The number of subscribers to the Landscape Systems Management application has grown dramatically over the past year with much of this growth coming from...


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The challenge of understanding icons

Icons are very peculiar images. They are both pictorial and functional. An icon is literally a picture, e.g., of a magnifying glass, and at the same time it...

Canonical adds advanced enterprise features to latest version of systems management tool

New 'Landscape' supports Ubuntu 10.04 LTS migration and cloud deployments for enterprises Canonical today announced the latest version of its Ubuntu-dedicated...

Colour management

I’ve been looking for a local store which offers a colour sprectromitor and chanced upon the spyder3. I have to say that it is a total let-down. It doesn’t...

Talk Type

At the recent Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS), we invited Type Designer Bruno Maag from Dalton Maag to talk about the new open-source font design development...

Ubuntu Maverick UDS group photo made with the Hugin Panorama Creator

Due to the weather and the layout of the hotel grounds at the Ubuntu Developer Summit for 10.10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) it was impossible to take the group...

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So long already? Nah! :)

Today saw the start of the Ubuntu Developer Summit for our next release Maverick Meerkat. This sentiment on the final slide of Mark’s presentation will...

Hello, Unity

This is an early version of Unity, what will hopefully become the new interface for Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10:Unity comprises:A launcher that makes opening...


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