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3 January 2012

Canonical at CES, Las Vegas, 10th – 13th January 2012

Ubuntu Desktop

Canonical will have a presence at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, from the 10th – 13th January. The booth, in the Upper Level of South Hall 4, is at location 35379 within the Las Vegas Convention Center. On display will be the latest in Desktop, Cloud and demonstrations on Ubuntu One, plus ...


Canonical
22 December 2011

VMware View Tech Preview now available in the Ubuntu Software Centre

Ubuntu open source

The ‘VMware View Client Tech’ Preview for Linux is now available through the Ubuntu Software Centre. This reinforces the great work done by ecosystem partners in making their latest and greatest technology available on Ubuntu. New devices are proliferating across all industries, with the Education sector being particularly strong. Ubuntu ...


Canonical
21 December 2011

Ubuntu IVI Remix Next Release

Ubuntu Engineering

The latest Ubuntu In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) Remix is released as of December 2011. This release contains a number of updates and bugfixes from the previous Beta 1 release, as well as a targeted kernel from the Ubuntu kernel tree. It is now fully in sync with the standard Ubuntu desktop and server releases, allowing developers ...


Canonical
20 December 2011

Improving the Multi-Monitor Experience in Ubuntu

Ubuntu Design

Over the past few months we have been working on improving the multi-monitor experience in Ubuntu. We took the opportunity at UDS in November to get some feedback on a prototype, which shows how we are planning to develop the multi-monitor experience over the next few cycles: Here is a short video of the prototype ...


Canonical
19 December 2011

Vodacom Success !

Ubuntu Partners

Canonical launched Ubuntu at retail with Vodacom in October, and the Vodacom Webbook – embedded with Ubuntu – is currently available to buy in over 1,200 stores in South Africa. The product has been selling well and over the coming weeks is expected to be one of the ‘must have’ Christmas gifts for this year. ...


Canonical
12 December 2011

Ubuntu Hardware Summit 2011

Ubuntu Desktop

Last week saw the third annual Ubuntu Hardware Summit (UHS) taking place in Taipei. With over two hundred attendees present, the show is fast becoming one of the must-attend events within the software, ODM and OEM environments across Taiwan. With standing room only at the back of the room during the Keynote speech, Canonical set ...


Victor Tuson Palau
9 December 2011

Introducing odm.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Engineering

Coinciding with the 2011 Ubuntu Hardware Summit, we are launching a new portal aimed to help engineers at device manufacturers shipping Ubuntu systems: odm.ubuntu.com The Ubuntu community is great. It provides users and developers with lots and lots of useful information. This means that sometimes finding the right informationfor you can ...


Canonical
9 December 2011

Interview with Mr.doob

Ubuntu Design

In the following months we are going to invite inspiring artists to talk about their amazing work and the role that Ubuntu and free software cover, or could cover, in their creative lives. Today I invited a special Ubuntu friend to talk about his journey in creative coding. He is well known in the web ...


Canonical
2 December 2011

Learn more about Juju – Join Mark Shuttleworth Thursday 8th December at 3pm GMT

Ubuntu Server

Juju is Devops Distilled Cloud deployment is different. It involves tighter devops handovers, the ability to scale services both up and down, and hybrid cloud computing: moving services between your private cloud and multiple public cloud providers. Accelerated provisioning through IAAS has put the spotlight on friction in the deployment, ...


Canonical
1 December 2011

Убу́нту Моно: «Г» «Њ њ Љ љ» «Ђ ђ Ћ ћ»

Ubuntu Research

Amélie Bonet at Dalton Maag has drawn up redesigns for a number of the Cyrillic and Serbian/Balkans characters that weren’t as clear, or ideal as they could have been. If you use these characters, please help give feedback about whether the suggested improvements are sufficient, or whether they could be improved further. For Greek, ther ...


Mark Shuttleworth
27 November 2011

Ubuntu TV discussions hot up

Ubuntu Design

Threads are coalescing around the concept of an Ubuntu TV experience, driven by Unity. ...