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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One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 6 Progress Report
by Canonical on 11 August 2009
One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 6 contained some of the easiest-to-fix paper cuts we’ve seen so far, but it made less progress than any previous milestone....
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One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 5 Progress Report
by Canonical on 10 August 2009
Without further ado, here’s an update on the fifth round of the One Hundred Paper Cuts project. The paper cuts addressed were:When nautilus cannot unmount a...
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One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 4 Progress Report
by Canonical on 4 August 2009
The fourth milestone in the One Hundred Paper Cuts project came and went over a week ago. Here’s a summary of the issues addressed:F-Spot puts photos in...
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Landscape System Management Tool Adds Dedicated Server
by Canonical on 4 August 2009
Today we are announcing the Landscape Dedicated Server Edition — a stand alone version of Landscape that users can install on-site giving them complete...
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New individual desktop services
by Canonical on 31 July 2009
The last few years have seen a dramatic increase in the size and reach of the Ubuntu community while netbooks have brought many new consumer users to Ubuntu. ...
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Canonical to offer Ubuntu Desktop support and services
by Canonical on 31 July 2009
New offerings to individuals and small businesses to ease transition to fastest growing Linux desktop Canonical, the founder of the Ubuntu project,announced...
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Distributed user testing of archive behavior in Ubuntu
by Canonical on 28 July 2009
In response to two paper cuts, “Have the file-roller automatically extract an archive on double click” and “‘Archive Manager’ doesn’t mean anything if you...
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Karmic desktop contest script
by Canonical on 24 July 2009
I wrote a quick-and-dirty Haskell script to download photos from the Karmic Desktop Contest, setting a new photo as your desktop background every ten minutes....
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Canonical releases source code for Launchpad
by Canonical on 21 July 2009
Release of Launchpad to encourage innovation Canonical, the founder of the Ubuntu project, announced today that it has open-sourced the code that runs...
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Featured paper cut: Nautilus, simplified
by Canonical on 20 July 2009
I thought I’d share a fun paper cut from this week’s milestone that has seen some interesting developments. The proposed changes (and discussion) have grown...
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Ubuntu Flickr photo submissions
by Canonical on 17 July 2009
The flickr group photos are coming along very well! ( http://www.flickr.com/groups/ubuntu-artwork/ ) Keep up the good work!
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Karmic wallpapers
by Canonical on 9 July 2009
Ubuntu would like to include a beautiful set of images for our users to choose from in our next release. In order to accomplish this we have set up a wiki...