Canonical
Canonical produces Ubuntu, provides commercial services for Ubuntu's users, and works with hardware manufacturers, software vendors and cloud partners to certify Ubuntu.
1480 posts by Canonical
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What makes a good design critic?
by Canonical on 21 April 2010
While at CHI earlier this week, I went along to a session with the same title as this blog post. I was looking for some inspiration, something to take to a...
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Reasons to celebrate 15th April 2010
by Canonical on 15 April 2010
Karmic saw the first community wallpaper competition and delivered us a beautiful set of photographs for our desktops.Last cycle’s winners were this cycles...
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The process of certainty. And mojitos.
by Canonical on 7 April 2010
You know that feeling when you know someone very well and you buy them a present? You know they will love it and you are excited at the very thought of their...
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The Digital Economy Bill: Bananas!
by Canonical on 3 April 2010
Over at Confused of Calcutta, JP Rangaswami has written a crystal clear article on why we should be concerned about the content and treatment of the Digital...
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Reasons to celebrate: 24th March 2010
by Canonical on 24 March 2010
Today is Ada Lovelace day.Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace was born on 10th December 1815, the only child of Lord Byron and his wife, Annabella. Born...
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Ubuntu Server Survey 2010 released
by Canonical on 24 March 2010
We are ready to release the report on the server survey, the information for which was gathered at the tail end of 2009 by the server community in...
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Ada Lovelace and the Turing Test
by Canonical on 24 March 2010
In Computing Machinery and Intelligence, Alan Turing describes the famous Turing test for detecting machine intelligence. Did you know that Turing’s thesis...
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It’s Ada Lovelace Day
by Canonical on 24 March 2010
I’ve always liked Ada. She was the first to see the musical potential of computers. Here, look at this old blog post in which I mention her. As proof!...
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Workarounds
by Canonical on 18 March 2010
I was looking for new phone wallpapers last night and stumbled across loads of examples of this. The iPhone doesn’t have a main calendar screen like other...
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Not that kind of bored
by Canonical on 14 March 2010
Inspired by this brilliant picture and wee post over at the Panic Inc. blog I’ve not been able to shake the idea of making a similar status view for us to use...
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Andalusia deploys 220,000 Ubuntu desktops in schools throughout the region
by Canonical on 13 March 2010
Summary The Andalusian Regional Government, Spain, wanted to improve access to IT in schools throughout the region. It asked IT services company...