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8 February 2010

New toy

Ubuntu Design

Picked up a N900 the other day. It’s really quite amazing. Best of all it’s linux *and* the keyboard is big enough for my thick fingers. The design isn’t as nice as the iphone though. ...

Canonical
5 February 2010

Improved window management shortcuts land in Lucid

Ubuntu Design

Sebastian Bacher landed improved Compiz keyboard shortcucts in Lucid this week during the distro sprint in Portland, Oregon (which is by far the best sprint I’ve ever been to–everybody is rocking):Super↓E↓↑↑ triggers Expo as usual.Super↓W↓↑↑ scales all windows on your current workspace (hint: try typing in scale mode!).Super↓A↓↑↑ scales a ...

Canonical
5 February 2010

Matt Asay joins Canonical as COO

Ubuntu open source

We are delighted to welcome Matt Asay to the Canonical fold, taking up the role of Chief Operating Officer with immediate effect. The details can be found in the press release. Matt has also written about the new challenge in his Open Road blog. So all that remains to say here is how much the ...

Canonical
5 February 2010

Open source industry veteran Matt Asay joins Canonical as chief operating officer

Desktop News

Canonical Ltd., the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, announced today that open source industry veteran Matt Asay has joined the company as chief operating officer (COO) — responsible for aligning strategic goals and operational activities, the optimization of day-to-day operations, and leadership of Canonical marketing and back-office functi ...

Canonical
5 February 2010

Ending poverty with open hardware

Ubuntu Design

The Hexayurt is a new kind of sheltering solution. To make the simplest hexayurt, make a wall by putting six sheets of plywood on their sides in a hexagon. Cut six more sheets in half diagonally, and screw them together into a shallow cone. Lift the roof on to the wall with a large group ...

Canonical
3 February 2010

Do I really want to touch my computer all day?

Ubuntu Design

This concept video has been doing the rounds following a brief showing on Tech Crunch. It looks like a tablet interface you could do work on but I have to wonder if that’s a way of working that I’d even really want. For better or worse we’ve established a way of working with traditional documents ...

Canonical
2 February 2010

Platform sprint in Portland

Ubuntu Design

The Ubuntu platform sprint in Portland, Oregon has been an amazing experience. We’ve gotten loads of work done and are having a great time in a wonderful city. Compared to Dallas, this city rocks 😉 ...

Canonical
26 January 2010

Lucid Paper Jam update!

Ubuntu Design

I thought I’d write a quick update on paper cut progress for Lucid. Last week was our “Sound & Video” paper jam. The following paper cuts were fixed:Totem: Must have a fullscreen button“Razor” [is] an odd name for the split toolRhythmbox Notification Bubble shows wrong cover art[Sound Recorder] Cancel button doesn’t use correct behaviour ...

Canonical
24 January 2010

Improving Launchpad bug workflow for opportunistic programmers

Ubuntu Design

I’m a talented software engineer. I have a good deal of application programming experience on Windows, Mac OS, Linux, iPhone, Android, and the Web. I’m crazy about style guidelines, correctness, functional decomposition, self-documenting code, explicit documentation, code review, unit tests, etc. I’m confident that for most application co ...

Canonical
22 January 2010

ISV support for Ubuntu Server Edition widens

Ubuntu Server

This week were very pleased to see three companies behind three great technologies announce their support for Ubuntu. In the run up to the LTS in late April we are keen that our users are aware of the growing number of application options that they can have on their preferred operating system. These will be ...

Canonical
18 January 2010

IBM Client for Smart Work with Ubuntu support released

Ubuntu Desktop

At Lotusphere today we announced the availability of the IBM Client for Smart Work complete with support from Canonical. It is a significant milestone both for potential end users and for the Canonical and IBM channel. One of the gating factors to widespread adoption of Linux in the corporate desktop has been the perceived availability ...

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