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
Ubuntu
App Design Clinic #5
by Canonical on 3 December 2013
Over the last few months we have been running the App Design Clinic and we want to thank you for all your submissions, contribution and feedback! The Design...
Ubuntu
vUDS November: Design Track sum up!
by Canonical on 2 December 2013
On 19-21 November we had our vUDS where we got to discuss and share with the community some of the design work we’ve been doing recently. Our topics ranged...
Desktop
Asus and Ubuntu deliver affordable world-class laptops to USA Education
by Canonical on 26 November 2013
A quiet revolution is taking place in the global education sector: more and more institutions and students are discovering the value of the Ubuntu operating...
Cloud and server
MAAS and Juju in a VM on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS – Part 2
by Canonical on 19 November 2013
Enterprise environments rely on Ubuntu’s LTS (Long-term Support) release. Its established two year release cadence and five year security and maintenance...
Cloud and server
Video: Ubuntu Cloud technologies on Dell PowerEdge servers
by Canonical on 18 November 2013
This video published by the DellTechCenter shows the optimisation of Ubuntu’s cloud technologies, “Juju” and “MAAS”, as used with the Dell PowerEdge servers. ...
Cloud and server
Interested in MAAS and Juju? Here’s how to try it in a VM
by Canonical on 15 November 2013
The backbone for scale-out workload deployments in Ubuntu, such as big data (Hadoop), cloud (OpenStack), and layered applications is a combination of...
Ubuntu
November Brown Bag lunch
by Canonical on 15 November 2013
Some of us in the Design team have been gathering on a monthly basis to have lunch together and share things we find interesting to us. Today, I’d like to...
Ubuntu
Conducting Usability Testing: a case of just following the task script?
by Canonical on 11 November 2013
In the previous post, we talked about how to design effective user testing tasks to evaluate the usability of an interface. This post continues with this...
Ubuntu
App Design Clinic #4
by Canonical on 11 November 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHs0bYWcq-E App design Clinic #4 focuses on icons, with questions from Stuart Langridge including: guidance on creating app...
Ubuntu
Trademarks, community and criticism
by Canonical on 8 November 2013
Recently some concerns were expressed by fixsne.bianheman.eu.org, a website focusing on Ubuntu privacy, about a routine trademark enforcement email that Canonical sent....
Cloud and server
Deploying Web Applications using Juju – (Part 3/3)
by Canonical on 7 November 2013
The goal of this tutorial series is to demonstrate the power of Juju service orchestration for deploying web applications and infrastructure services. Juju is...
Cloud and server
A week in San Francisco
by Canonical on 7 November 2013
I recently attended my first cloud sprint meeting held in San Francisco, and it turned out to be a great experience. It’s been 10 years since I last visited,...