Ubuntu Look

This Month we have profiled a member of the Canonical family, who has been with us almost from the start *Henrik Omma* Read on to see his recollection of what Canonical was like in the early days and why he enjoys working here. *Take 60 seconds with Henrik Omma* Henrik works as the Enterprise Applications [...]

Earlier this month Canonical introduced its own multi-touch framework for Ubuntu that is set to premiere with Ubuntu 10.10 “Maverick Meerkat” and it’s called UTouch and is joined by their own gesture/touch language. That same day as announcing UTouch for Ubuntu that will support devices like the Apple Magic TrackPad and Dell XT2, Canonical proposed [...]

If you’d asked us in 2007 or 2008 to summarize Canonical’s grand strategy, our answer would have centered around beating Red Hat and Novell on the Linux server front. But fast forward to the present and a lot has changed. That’s why it’s time for a reevaluation of Canonical’s goals and future, and its relationship [...]

If you use or follow Ubuntu, a great way to see what’s happening somewhat behind the scenes is the Canonical Design Team site/blog. I assumed this was a fairly new thing (and I think I’m right in this assumption), but it has posts going back to 2005. Where did those posts come from? I didn’t [...]

Canonical developer Chase Douglas says Ubuntu 10.10 will have multi-touch support for Apple’s Magic Trackpad, iPod, iPad, iPhone, MacBook and MacBook Pro. Canonical’s announcement yesterday that it had released uTouch 1.0, a multi-touch gesture recognising stack for multi-touch based devices, prompted queries about which Apple multi-touch devices were supported. In a Canonical log posting, Douglas [...]

Canonical remains committed to Landscape — the remote systems management platform for Ubuntu. But one of the Landscape team members has joined Dell, according to sources close to the hardware giant. Here’s the update. I want to be careful with this post. It’s important to note that employees come and go — but software and [...]

Ask anyone which GNU/Linux distribution one should recommend to would-be users and the answer is generally always one word: Ubuntu. Since it was launched in 2004, Ubuntu has gradually grown to be the most used distribution; the fact that it is produced by a big company like Canonical and has been aimed at the desktop [...]