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Inayaili de León Persson
21 November 2013

Latest from the web team — November 2013

Ubuntu Notes

Even though Ubuntu 13.10’s release is behind us, we always find ways to keep busy. Here are the highlights of the past four weeks. In the last few weeks we’ve worked on: Ubuntu Resources alpha release: we’ve launched our first mobile-first project, currently in alpha Canonical website: Graham, Anthony and Karl have explored how we ...


Canonical
19 November 2013

MAAS and Juju in a VM on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS – Part 2

Cloud and server Article

Enterprise environments rely on Ubuntu’s LTS (Long-term Support) release.   Its established two year release cadence and five year security and maintenance updates means sysadmins and developers can plan updates and migrations in advance. So it comes at no surprise, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is the leading reference operating system for OpenStack ...


Matthieu James
19 November 2013

Juju ice-cream icon design

Ubuntu Featured

Who doesn’t like ice-cream? Here in the design team we sure do! In the last few weeks we’ve been preparing a special Juju demo for the OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong and we’ve created some very ‘tasty’ icons for it. We thought it would be nice to show you how those icons were created, so ...


Canonical
18 November 2013

Video: Ubuntu Cloud technologies on Dell PowerEdge servers

Cloud and server Videos

This video published by the DellTechCenter shows the optimisation of Ubuntu’s cloud technologies, “Juju” and “MAAS”, as used with the Dell PowerEdge servers. Canonical’s Kent Baxley and Dell’s Jose De La Rosa, are the two experienced engineers who have been interviewed. ...


Inayaili de León Persson
18 November 2013

The new Ubuntu Resources

Ubuntu Featured

Today we’ve launched the alpha version of our latest project: the Ubuntu Resources website. This is our first responsive project that follows the mobile-first methodology and we’re very excited to share this with everyone! As you’ll be able to see, we’re not quite done with it yet, but we wanted to share what we’ve created ...


Mark Baker
15 November 2013

OpenStack Summit Hong Kong 2013: Interoperability and collaboration for a stronger OpenStack

Ubuntu Server

To paraphrase from Mark Shuttleworth’s keynote at the OpenStack Developer Summit last week in Hong Kong, building clouds is no longer exciting. It’s easy. That’s somewhat of an exaggeration, of course, as clouds are still a big choice for many enterprises, but there is still a lot of truth in Mark’s sentiment. The really interesting ...


Canonical
15 November 2013

Interested in MAAS and Juju? Here’s how to try it in a VM

Cloud and server Article

The backbone for scale-out workload deployments in Ubuntu, such as big data (Hadoop), cloud (OpenStack), and layered applications is a combination of Metal-as-a-Service (MAAS) and Juju.  These exciting open-source projects, offer groundbreaking functionality and just got better in Ubuntu 13.10! MAAS provisions hardware using existing and ...


Canonical
15 November 2013

November Brown Bag lunch

Ubuntu Notes

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 share with you the Brown Bag lunch we had this week. Vesa shared with us his interest in photography and showed us some of the ...


Canonical
11 November 2013

Conducting Usability Testing: a case of just following the task script?

Ubuntu User Experience

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 topic by highlighting a number of key strategies that you may need to use when conducting a formative user testing, whose main aim is to identify usability problems and ...


Canonical
11 November 2013

App Design Clinic #4

Ubuntu Notes

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 icons (stylistically and in terms of file format and resolution) tips on how to use action icons The presentation deck link will be shared on the blog once it’s been checked by our icon ...


Canonical
8 November 2013

Trademarks, community and criticism

Ubuntu open source

Recently some concerns were expressed by fixubuntu.com, a website focusing on Ubuntu privacy, about a routine trademark enforcement email that Canonical sent. We want to provide some context around this issue. In Ubuntu we cherish an open and diverse discourse, and we welcome differing and challenging views and perspectives; it is the cor ...