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I really can’t tell you how exciting a place to be Canonical towers is right now! Yes, it’s hard work keeping up with all the feedback from the community, we’re terrifyingly close to a release and have to deliver final and updated assets until the cows come home and YES it’s UDS in 8 weeks

A few weeks ago myself and Dustin Kirkland had the privilege of travelling to the Intel facility in Hillsboro, Oregon to work with Billy Cox, Rekha Raghu, Paul Guermonprez, Trevor Cooper and Kamal Natesan of Intel and Dan Nurmi and Neil Soman of Eucalyptus Systems and a few others on developing a proof of concept

Many of you have been asking for some correspondence regarding the button position in the window manager.Here it is.At Ubuntu we have a golden opportunity not only to make our OS as good as the competition but to make it better. The button position discussion and analysis started with:– Why do Mac OS and Windows

I’ve spent some time attempting to make a Cocoa that lets you burn an Ubuntu ISO to a USB memory stick on OS X.I think I’ve got as far as I’m gonna get with it now, sadly.How far I got…The UI is pretty conciseA USB stick gets detected when pl

Here’s a photo of Iain, design team project manager, edited to expose his love of colour:

If you’re running lucid with the latest updates be sure to try click n’ drag the window from anywhere in the top dark area. In other words, the windeco and menubar are both dragable now. Thanks go to Cody Russell!

Yukihiro Matsumoto put it better than I ever could: Often people, especially computer engineers, focus on the machines. They think, “By doing this, the machine will run faster. By doing this, the machine will run more effectively. By doing this,

My first year working for Canonical draws to a close with my team delivering a new identity for Ubuntu.I am very proud of the result and would like to thank them for all their hard work. I also want to thank Mark Shuttleworth and Jane Silber for setting out the challenge and for being part

The April release of the next LTS version of Ubuntu on server and desktop is certainly generating a lot of excitement internally, in our customer base and amongst our existing partners as the VAR Guy reflects. Long-term support (LTS) releases, particularly on server have become the deployment platform for our users. Take a look at

That’s right, we’ve fixed 75 paper cuts for Lucid already! We only need to fix 25 more to reach 100, but with many important freezes occurring over the next couple weeks we need to prioritize and focus.UI freeze comes this Thursday, March 4. This means that paper cuts involving user-facing changes (e.g. labels, menus, buttons)

Just uploaded a pic to the Lucid wallpaper pool hoping it makes the cut. Also, I took a nifty pic of Michael last week. Turned out quite well considering the lighting.

Cat at the Lotus Originally uploaded by kwwiiThis is a tale of weary over-worked designers, days spent toiling in the colour factory. Nights searching, yearning, I dare say for some of us, groping, for some magical libation, some flame, to lighten our

20100216-_DSC7110 Originally uploaded by kwwiiOtto’s friend Elsa has a catering service, WASHOKU we’ve used in the past but recently they went from good to excellent.She went to Japan and came back much the wiser 🙂 She and her partner brought in vari

We are pleased to announce the launch of the brand new Ubuntu single sign on service.  The goal of this service is to provide a single, central login service for all Ubuntu-related sites, thus making it more convenient for Ubuntu users and community members to access information, communicate, and contribute.  This service will replace the

Lucid Day Originally uploaded by j_baerEver feel like that?

Time flies like an arrow! This week marks the final round of paper cuts for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS “Lucid Lynx.” We’ve done an outstanding job so far but we still have work ahead of us. Here are some paper cuts that need attention this round:“Create Document” Templates difficult to useRight-clicking on the Desktop and choosing