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Blog posts tagged
"Ubuntu"


Canonical
14 September 2011

A monospace that looks like a proportional

Ubuntu Design

To join the Ubuntu Monospace beta and give feedback, apply to the ubuntu-typeface-interest team on Launchpad and follow the PPA instructions after being accepted. Timeline Hardly a day has gone by in the last six-months without the design team being asking when the Ubuntu Mono monospace is going to be available. Like all of the ...


Canonical
30 August 2011

Picturing the end of the road for another cycle

Ubuntu Design

  First of all a big thank you to everyone who submitted a wallpaper to our collection for the Oneiric release and to all our previous selected contributors who went through the images and selected the fine selection for this release! We had almost 2000 submissions this cycle and managed to whittle that down to ...


Mark Shuttleworth
16 August 2011

Dash takes shape for 11.10 Unity

Ubuntu Design

Feature freeze for 11.10 brings the likely look and feel of Unity for this release into focus. We’ve moved from Dash Places to Scopes and Lenses, introduced more sophisticated filtering and cleaned up some visual elements. ...


Canonical
3 August 2011

New game titles in the Ubuntu Software Center

Ubuntu Desktop

We’ve recently added a few titles to the Ubuntu Software Center and have been hard at work on getting more diverse applications landed there. BEEP! by Big Fat Alien and Heileen from Hanako Games have recently landed in the Software Center. BEEP! BEEP! by Big Fat Alien allows the player to take control of a ...


Victor Tuson Palau
18 July 2011

Ubuntu Certification Is Changing

Ubuntu Services

Canonical offers a commercial certification programme where manufacturers (OEM & ODM) can apply for their systems to be validated and endorsed to work with Ubuntu.  We had two levels of endorsement for systems: “Ubuntu Certified” and “Ubuntu Ready”. Successful applications to the certification programme results in a certificate for the sy ...


Canonical
13 July 2011

Ubuntu Orange is #dd4814

Ubuntu Article

Say it loud and say it proud! #dd4814 is the Ubuntu Orange and we want the world to know about it! ...


Canonical
8 July 2011

Get excited and make things! – Wallpaper edition!

Ubuntu Design

Not that long ago Matt Jones of BERG fame came up with a really lovely idea! In response to the keep calm and carry on posters from the Second World War that had become so popular again he decided that a more positive statement was needed! “It occurred to me that this was exactly the ...


Canonical
7 July 2011

My stickers have arrived!

Ubuntu Design

The stickers I made in my recent blog post have arrived and they’re lovely! ...


Canonical
4 July 2011

Most northerly Ubuntu fan?

Ubuntu Notes

This week we got a fun update from our traveling team member Ivanka! While passing through Dawson City in northern Canada Ivanka and Nick met Chalsie Warren and she recognised the Ubuntu stickers on their bike! This got me wondering whether we can track down the most extreme users starting with the most northerly Ubuntu ...


Mark Baker
6 June 2011

Britain's Got Talent and The Cabinet Office – Ubuntu bedfellows in the public cloud.

Ubuntu Server

Last week saw the culmination of one of the UK’s most popular TV shows – Britain’s Got Talent. The way in which this show over five series has captured the attention of the British public is quite incredible, with the majority of popular media outlets dedicating significant space to the contestants, the judges, rumours about ...


Canonical
31 May 2011

Celebrate Ubuntu!

Ubuntu Design

At UDS in Budapest we held a session on the idea of a toolkit for community members. It would allow anyone excited enough to show off and celebrate their use and love of Ubuntu. As you can see from the notes there were a lot of ideas and one of the first activities was to ...


Canonical
18 May 2011

Here we go again!

Ubuntu Design

Every 6 months the Ubuntu journey starts anew. Those of us entering yet another cycle assume that this all makes sense to the outside world but I like to post up dates on the wall in the office and write a blog post to give those new to the project, and some not so new, ...