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Legislators in Kerala, India work better with Ubuntu laptops

Tens of thousands of dollars saved on software licensing Summary The Government of Kerala wanted to provide 141 members of its legislative assembly with new...

Thunderbird in the Usability Lab!

 I have just completed sessions of usability testing of Thunderbird. This time, I had the pleasure of working with Andreas Nilsson, who came to London to...

DanRabbit on the Ubuntu One Desktop

Hey Ubuntu One and Design fans! This is my first post here, and I have to say I feel priveledged to be able to write to you all. Recently I’ve been working...

10 reasons to migrate

The computing world is extremely polarised when it comes to proprietary vs. open source, and a million industry voices tell a million different stories. Even...

Canonical releases world’s most comprehensive, up-to-date component catalog for Linux

Canonical today announced that for the first time it was making publicly available its complete database of certified components for Ubuntu and Linux —...

Dell releases OpenManage 6.4 for Ubuntu

In the spring of 2010, members of the Ubuntu development team worked with Dell to build and test OpenManage 6.3 for Ubuntu. Several of our engineers took...

Canonical joins the OpenStack community

OpenStack today have made a number of announcements about the Bexar release of their cloud stack and we were delighted to be able to confirm its inclusion in...


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Dell customers use Ubuntu to deploy cloud

Canonical today announced the availability of Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) running on Dell PowerEdge C2100 and C6100 servers in an integrated solution...

Agora Games makes dramatic time and cost savings with Ubuntu

Gaming company cuts server infrastructure by almost half with Ubuntu and VMware Summary Agora Games creates custom online gaming communities and develops...

The Natty Wallpaper contest – an important update!

Two weeks into our wallpaper contest we’re seeing lots of really interesting entries for the photographic part. As those of you who read the previous post...

London’s Design Museum recognises Ubuntu fonts

London 24th January 2011: The Ubuntu Project today announced the opening of a new exhibition at London’s Design Museum dedicated to the Ubuntu Font, in...

Free Culture Showcase

Get creative and submit your artwork to this year’s Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase. The theme is Freedom.

Can We Appropriate Design?

’Appropriation’ – the taking of a product and using it for one’s own purposes, in ways unintended by the product creators – is implicitly at the core of the...

Bright, light and beautiful!

That’s what we want the Ubuntu desktops in Natty to feel like. We’re changing things a little bit for the coming release too. We’ll still feature some...

Hebrew and Arabic on track

Although I haven’t posted much recently we have still been working away. Besides the latest update to Version 0.7 of the core fonts, which posed some...


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