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The monospace is coming
By Canonical, 18 November 2010
In contrast to a proportionally spaced font a the characters in a monospace occupy all exactly the same width. In the past monospace type was used on...
Usability Testing of Unity
By Canonical, 13 November 2010
In preparation for UDS, we conducted usability testing of Unity with general public users. We are now better informed as to where we should expend further...
This week in design – 12 November 2010
By Canonical, 12 November 2010
The theme of this week’s update is one of cool stuff that we came across this week in the world of open source. You’ll know from Christian’s blog post a while...
AMTRON delivers 28,000 Ubuntu-based PCs to students in Assam
By Canonical, 10 November 2010
India-based government information and communication technologies (ICT) provider The Assam Electronics Development Corporation (AMTRON) needed to provide...
La Gendarmerie Nationale upgrades 85,000 PCs to Ubuntu Desktop Edition
By Canonical, 10 November 2010
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...
Canonical welcomes new partners following latest Ubuntu 10.10 release
By Canonical, 10 November 2010
Ubuntu 10.10 launch in October drew strong partner interest Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, announced today the signing of several significant...
Lower the cost of your data centre with IBM and Canonical webcast
By Canonical, 8 November 2010
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...
This week in design – 5 November 2010
By Canonical, 5 November 2010
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...
Of hinting and tables
By Canonical, 4 November 2010
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...
Introducing Ubuntu – The Movie!
By Canonical, 27 October 2010
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...
Canonical’s Ubuntu Developer Summit to bring together international community of developers to build the next Ubuntu
By Canonical, 21 October 2010
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,...