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Victor Tuson Palau
13 September 2011

Ubuntu Certification – Program Guide Update

Ubuntu Services

Canonical runs the Ubuntu Certification program, providing users with a verified list of Ubuntu compatible systems. For Manufacturers and partners that would like to understand better the certification program, Canonical publishes a guide available to download from the certification website. We have recently updated the guide to include a ...


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 ...


Canonical
30 August 2011

Oil Rush is now available in the Software Center!

Ubuntu Desktop

Unigine Corp has made their Oil Rush game available in the Ubuntu Software Center for pre-order. Oil Rush is a Naval Strategy game and is currently in beta. According to the press release from Unigine, Oil Rush is a real-time naval strategy game based on group control. In Oil Rush players build up defenses and ...


Canonical
26 August 2011

Crunch time on the Enterprise Desktop

Ubuntu Desktop

Remember when Windows was the best desktop OS for business users? Seems like a while ago. The rise of browser-based apps, an increasingly mobile workforce and the ever-present threat of malware mean few CIOs would choose Windows if it was launched today.   Yet many believe there’s no viable alternative. We, of course, think there ...


Canonical
22 August 2011

History of the Alphabet (Hebrew, Greek, Cyrillic, Latin, Arabic)

Ubuntu Design

The BBC just put up a five-minute audio slideshow “The story of how we got our alphabets” about the development of western writing, starting in 3,000 BC in Mesopotamia with various attempts at proto-writing systems and then Cuneiform script. It shows the history of the alphabet, stemming from the Phoenician alphabet and continuing to the ...


Canonical
17 August 2011

Quick wallpaper update

Ubuntu Design

Just a quick update for those of you who are interested. As we speak the contributors whose images were selected for the last release of Ubuntu are sifting through the many many images submitted for the Oneiric release in October. You can take a sneaky peek at the shortlist in this Flickr group, there are ...


Canonical
17 August 2011

Cloud Foundry Platform as a Service (PaaS) in Ubuntu 11.10

Ubuntu Server

Great news that Ubuntu 11.10 will include Cloud Foundry, an open source Platform as a Service (PaaS) that enables developers to build, deploy and run Cloud applications. Other PaaS offerings have typically locked you into using specific frameworks and services defined by the PaaS vendor as well as proprietary host platforms. This has made ...


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. ...


Chris Kenyon
16 August 2011

Ubuntu Server for ARM processors

Ubuntu Server

Fitting more computing capacity into a limited power envelope is one of the key challenges facing data centre designers today. It impacts companies whether they are building a £500 million data centre or simply working how much compute that can fit into a couple of racks at a shared facility. One of the emerging approaches ...


Victor Tuson Palau
15 August 2011

Why Buy An Ubuntu Certified System?

Ubuntu Services

What do Chianti wines, Organic foods, and Spanish Ham have in common with Ubuntu Certified? The simple answer is that they all stand for quality. Chianti is an Italian standard (DOCG) for Tuscany wines that requires using defined methods, satisfying set quality standards. Organic Foods are foods free of artificial components such as synth ...


Canonical
15 August 2011

Ubuntu Arabic, in print!

Ubuntu Research

A beta of Ubuntu Font Family Arabic, in print as part of the testing and debugging process for the Arabic coverage.The magazine is an intriguing tri-lingual production published by the Cultural Office of Saudi Arabia in Germany … German and English articles using Latin script at one cover and Arabic from the other. ...