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1 December 2010

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

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New interface significantly eases feature deployment for systems management tool Canonical today announced a free trial to showcase the entirely new interface for its systems management solution, Ubuntu Advantage: Landscape. Landscape has been available to Ubuntu users for four years and is now part of the Ubuntu Advantage service from Ca ...

Alejandra Obregon
27 November 2010

Participate in research

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

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 research project in London on the 3rd and 10th December. If this sounds like you please get in touch. ...

Canonical
26 November 2010

Papercuts: Litmus test

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

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

Canonical
25 November 2010

Here come the Ninjas

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

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

Canonical
19 November 2010

Paper cuts need you!

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

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 couple of things: 1) Only a handful of members in the Papercutters team are active on the project. 2) For a project to live ...

Canonical
18 November 2010

The monospace is coming

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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 typewriters, and more recently in some specialised printing environments such as Credit Card embossing, or ticketing. Today, monospace fonts are primarily used within a programming environme ...

Canonical
13 November 2010

Usability Testing of Unity

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

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 efforts to enhance the experience for users working with Unity. I summarize my findings below. Participants Selection We asked an external recruiting firm to find 15 participants who a ...

Canonical
12 November 2010

This week in design – 12 November 2010

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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 ago that we’re really interested in the idea of interacting with your computer physically. Christian experimented with the webcam in a laptop but imagine ...

Canonical
10 November 2010

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

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

India-based government information and communication technologies (ICT) provider The Assam Electronics Development Corporation (AMTRON) needed to provide every Assam student who achieved 60 per cent or higher in their school leaving exams with a free PC. AMTRON needed to comply with strict budgets to deliver reliable, easy-to-use PCs to t ...

Canonical
10 November 2010

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

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

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 infrastructure costs, the organisation decided to review its existing Microsoft based environment. After switching from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice.org and Internet Explorer to Fir ...

Canonical
10 November 2010

Canonical welcomes new partners following latest Ubuntu 10.10 release

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

Ubuntu 10.10 launch in October drew strong partner interest Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, announced today the signing of several significant partnerships following the release last month of Ubuntu 10.10. Boxed Ice, Opsview, Riptano, Unoware, Vladster, Wavemaker and Zend all joined as Canonical Software Partners, their appli ...

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