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Canonical produces Ubuntu, provides commercial services for Ubuntu's users, and works with hardware manufacturers, software vendors and cloud partners to certify Ubuntu.

Canonical
10 November 2010

AMTRON delivers 28,000 Ubuntu-based PCs to students in Assam

Desktop Case study

India-based government information and communication technologies (ICT) provider The Assam Electronics Development Corporation (AMTRON) needed to provide every Assam student who achieved 60 per cent or higher in their school leaving exams with a free PC. AMTRON needed to comply with strict budgets to deliver reliable, easy-to-use PCs to t ...

Canonical
10 November 2010

La Gendarmerie Nationale upgrades 85,000 PCs to Ubuntu Desktop Edition

Cloud and server Case study

Summary La Gendarmerie Nationale's IT team must ensure that the police force can provide a responsive and cost-effective service nationwide. With growing IT infrastructure costs, the organisation decided to review its existing Microsoft based environment. After switching from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice.org and Internet Explorer to Fir ...

Canonical
10 November 2010

Canonical welcomes new partners following latest Ubuntu 10.10 release

Desktop News

Ubuntu 10.10 launch in October drew strong partner interest Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, announced today the signing of several significant partnerships following the release last month of Ubuntu 10.10. Boxed Ice, Opsview, Riptano, Unoware, Vladster, Wavemaker and Zend all joined as Canonical Software Partners, their appli ...

Canonical
8 November 2010

Lower the cost of your data centre with IBM and Canonical webcast

Ubuntu Server

Please join IBM and Canonical on Tuesday, 16 November 2010 at 9:00am PDT / 12:00noon EDT / 15:00pm GMT to hear how the combination of IBM and Canonical technologies help organizations build or expand a data centre operating environment that IT staff can rely on and quickly incorporate for significantly lower cost than competing alternativ ...

Canonical
5 November 2010

This week in design – 5 November 2010

Ubuntu Design

We’re back! Phew! What a fortnight! Did you miss us? We all got back from Orlando, Florida this week and prepared to kick off the Natty development cycle in style. UDS-N was a great event and big thanks should go to Jono, Jorge, the Canonical admin and technical teams and everyone who attended sessions, took ...

Canonical
4 November 2010

Of hinting and tables

Ubuntu Design

I hope regular readers of the design blogs don’t think that we have abandoned our programme of telling you all about the font development – I know it’s been a while since the last post. The 10.10 launch and UDS are over and it’s been great to get some feedback from people about how much ...

Canonical
27 October 2010

Introducing Ubuntu – The Movie!

Ubuntu Design

Almost all of the design team are in Orlando this week taking part in UDS. As well as getting ready for the summit in the last few weeks we’ve also been working on something we’re really excited about. You may have already seen this video we’ve commissioned which explains a little bit about what Ubuntu ...

Canonical
21 October 2010

Canonical’s Ubuntu Developer Summit to bring together international community of developers to build the next Ubuntu

Cloud and server News

LONDON, October 20, 2010 – On the heels of Canonical’s latest release, Ubuntu 10.10, the company will begin its Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) on October 25, 2010 to discuss, design and develop Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) for release in April 2011. UDS is the Ubuntu event where the company – and the community – defines ...

Canonical
18 October 2010

What is UDS?

Phone and tablet Notes

We’ve been talking a lot about UDS but some of you out there might not know what it is. Duncan McGregor, one of my colleagues, has had this very conversation with a speaker who will be attending this UDS. He took some time to compose a blog post explaining what the summit is all about. ...

Canonical
18 October 2010

Designing on Ubuntu

Ubuntu Article

The recent Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase competition produced some good work. Lots of great photos and plenty of interesting music tracks were submitted.But only four videos…This made me think. Why only four? Was it because we didn’t talk about it enough? Or maybe there’s just not that many Ubuntu users interested in video and animation? O ...

Canonical
15 October 2010

This week in design – 15 October 2010

Ubuntu Design

It’s out! We did it! YES! Well done everyone. Thanks for your support in helping make this latest release a good one. Our Meerkat is all grown up so what’s next? Well, we have a Narwhal on the way and it’s up to all of us to make him that little bit Natty 😉 For ...

Canonical
15 October 2010

A space odyssey

Ubuntu Design

Time flies and it’s already time for our next blog entry on the design of the Ubuntu font suite. Below my colleague Fabio Haag explains the joys of spacing and kerning. Type designer from past to present all agree on one thing: the spacing between the letters is as important as the letters themselves, if ...

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