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Canonical produces Ubuntu, provides commercial services for Ubuntu's users, and works with hardware manufacturers, software vendors and cloud partners to certify Ubuntu.

Canonical
1 December 2010

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

Ubuntu Server

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 integrating it into their existing Active Directory infrastructure and management processes. By using Centrify’s Canonical-certified solution, they can go beyond simply offering transpar ...

Canonical
1 December 2010

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

Cloud and server News

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 ...

Canonical
26 November 2010

Papercuts: Litmus test

Ubuntu Development

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 Development

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 Notes

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

Ubuntu Design

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 User Experience

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

Ubuntu Design

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 Case study

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 Case study

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 News

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 ...

Canonical
8 November 2010

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

Ubuntu Server

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 technologies help organizations build or expand a data centre operating environment that IT staff can rely on and quickly incorporate for significantly lower cost than competing alternativ ...

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