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Rae Shambrook
17 August 2016

What is the best way to display online status? We tested it

Ubuntu Research

Recently I have been working on the visual design for RCS (which stands for rich communications service) group chat. While working on the “Group Info” screen, we found ourselves wondering what the best way to display an online/offline status. Some of us thought text would be more explicit but others thought  it adds more noise ...

Amrisha Prashar
16 August 2016

Intel® Joule™ board powered by Ubuntu Core

Internet of Things Article

We’re happy to welcome a new development board in the Ubuntu family! The new Intel® Joule™ is a powerful board targeted at IoT and robotics makers and runs Ubuntu for a smooth development experience. It’s also affordable and compact enough to be used in deployment, therefore Ubuntu Core can be installed to make any device ...

Canonical
16 August 2016

Advantech and Canonical form strategic partnership for IoT gateways

Internet of Things News

Ubuntu Core operating system provides production ready platform for gateways. London, UK – August 16, 2016 – Canonical today announced it has formed a strategic partnership with Advantech to work together to certify the company’s Internet of Things (IoT) gateways for Ubuntu Core. The partnership ensures users of Advantech’s selected Intel ...

Canonical
15 August 2016

Convergent terminal

Ubuntu User Experience

We have been looking at ways of making the Terminal app more pleasing, in terms of the user experience, as well as the visuals. I would like to share the work so far, invite users of the app to comment on the new designs, and share ideas on what other new features would be desirable. ...

Mark Baker
15 August 2016

Lunch and learn with OpenStack containers

Cloud and server Article

Follow the instructions in this article to spend around an hour over your lunch time to get an entire Ubuntu OpenStack cloud up and running in containers on a single machine. The resulting cloud will launch container based workloads. News about containers with OpenStack is everywhere right now. Be it OpenStack running on containers, runni ...

Richard Collins
9 August 2016

Introducing React Native on Ubuntu

Canonical announcements Article

Application development for mobile and desktop using web technologies is becoming increasingly popular. If you are one of these developers then Ubuntu has a great choice of frameworks you can use to create new apps. The Webapps team at Canonical is always focused on ensuring the right frameworks are available to developers. The Cordova fr ...

Ellen Arnold
9 August 2016

Professional support for Ubuntu now easier than ever

Cloud and server Article

Canonical’s professional support subscription Ubuntu Advantage (UA)—for cloud, server and desktop—is now even easier to purchase or renew with the launch of the UA store [buy.ubuntu.com]. UA helps organisations around the world to manage their Ubuntu deployments. It includes: Bug fixes & security updates, documentation, manuals, AskUbuntu ...

Dustin Kirkland
9 August 2016

Howdy, Windows! A Six-part Series about Ubuntu-on-Windows for Linux.com

Cloud and server Article

I hope you’ll enjoy a shiny new 6-part blog series I recently published at Linux.com.The first article is a bit of back story, perhaps a behind-the-scenes look at the motivations, timelines, and some of the work performed between Microsoft and Canonica ...

Canonical
9 August 2016

Competition winner – Timer App

Ubuntu Design

Back in June we hosted a competition that asked developers to use the AdaptivePageLayout component from the UI toolkit to create an app that converges across devices. We had some very impressive entires that used the component in different ways; choosing a winner was hard. However, after testing all the apps the design team chose a ...

Anthony Dillon
8 August 2016

Web team hack day

Ubuntu Featured

Last week the developers in the web team swapped the office for the lobby of the hotel across the street. The day was geared up to allow us to leave our daily tasks in the office and think of ideas that we would like to work on. The morning started with coffee and sitting in ...

Andrea Bernabei
8 August 2016

Refreshed scrollbars!

Ubuntu Featured

You may have noticed that the scrollbars available on Ubuntu Touch and the Unity8 environment have recently received a huge overhaul in both visual appearance and user experience. More specifically, we redesigned the Scrollbar component (which is already provided in the Ubuntu UI Toolkit) and added a new ScrollView component that builds o ...

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