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18 posts from November 2013
18 posts from November 2013
By Canonical, 26 November 2013
A quiet revolution is taking place in the global education sector: more and more institutions and students are discovering the value of the Ubuntu operating system. In the USA, Ubuntu partner ASUS has added to its long line of Ubuntu…
By Mark Baker, 22 November 2013
The OpenStack Foundation recently conducted a survey, asking their members about how they used OpenStack.
By Inayaili de León Persson, 21 November 2013
Even though Ubuntu 13.10’s release is behind us, we always find ways to keep busy. Here are the highlights of the past four weeks. In the last few weeks we’ve worked on: Ubuntu Resources alpha release: we’ve launched our first mobile-first…
By Canonical, 19 November 2013
Enterprise environments rely on Ubuntu’s LTS (Long-term Support) release. Its established two year release cadence and five year security and maintenance updates means sysadmins and developers can plan updates and migrations in advance. So…
By Matthieu James, 19 November 2013
Who doesn’t like ice-cream? Here in the design team we sure do! In the last few weeks we’ve been preparing a special Juju demo for the OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong and we’ve created some very ‘tasty’ icons for it. We thought it would be…
By Canonical, 18 November 2013
This video published by the DellTechCenter shows the optimisation of Ubuntu’s cloud technologies, “Juju” and “MAAS”, as used with the Dell PowerEdge servers. Canonical’s Kent Baxley and Dell’s Jose…
By Inayaili de León Persson, 18 November 2013
Today we’ve launched the alpha version of our latest project: the Ubuntu Resources website. This is our first responsive project that follows the mobile-first methodology and we’re very excited to share this with everyone! As you’ll…
By Mark Baker, 15 November 2013
To paraphrase from Mark Shuttleworth’s keynote at the OpenStack Developer Summit last week in Hong Kong, building clouds is no longer exciting. It’s easy. That’s somewhat of an exaggeration, of course, as clouds are still a big choice for…
By Canonical, 15 November 2013
The backbone for scale-out workload deployments in Ubuntu, such as big data (Hadoop), cloud (OpenStack), and layered applications is a combination of Metal-as-a-Service (MAAS) and Juju. These exciting open-source projects, offer…
By Canonical, 15 November 2013
Some of us in the Design team have been gathering on a monthly basis to have lunch together and share things we find interesting to us. Today, I’d like to share with you the Brown Bag lunch we had this week. Vesa shared with us his…
By Canonical, 11 November 2013
In the previous post, we talked about how to design effective user testing tasks to evaluate the usability of an interface. This post continues with this topic by highlighting a number of key strategies that you may need to use when…
By Canonical, 11 November 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... App design Clinic #4 focuses on icons, with questions from Stuart Langridge including: guidance on creating app icons (stylistically and in terms of file format and resolution) tips on how to use…