Kiss goodbye to burning Ubuntu onto a regualr CD-R: the default disc size for Ubuntu 12.04 has been set to 750MB. In raising the .iso limit by a mere 50MB developers will benefit from a buffer of breathing room. Often during the development cycle tough choices have to made as to what can ship on the CD and what can't.
Every 3 months Canonical conduct 'benchmark testing' of Unity, to ensure that the design decisions being made are improving user experience and not hampering. In a UDS session presenting the results of recent testing, some surprising results emerged - and most of it countering the negative perception many assume Unity has in the eyes of the target mind.
What version of GNOME will ship in Ubuntu 12.04? That was the topic of discussion at one of today's Ubuntu Developer Summit sessions.
What applications will be shipping out-of-the-box in Ubuntu 12.04? The bi-annual 'default apps' discussion taking place at this weeks Ubuntu Developer Summit has tasked itself with locking in a set of preferred choices.
Whilst I would advise against installing it just yet, daily builds of Ubuntu 12.04 (currently pre-pre-alpha) are available for download.
Ever since Ubuntu 11.04, the lack of the ability to configure many aspects of the new Unity interface has been pointed out and questioned widely. Today, at the “Meet Ubuntu Desktop Designers” session in the […]
As UDS continues over in Florida, USA thoughts have turned on how to make integration between applications and the Unity desktop better.
What's planned for Ubuntu 12.04's login screen? A discussion at the ongoing Ubuntu Developer Summit revealed some tentative plans...
Plans for improving the performance and start-up time for Ubuntu's Software Centre in 12.04 have been discussed at the Ubuntu Developer Summit.
The bi-annual Ubuntu Developer Summit has kicked off in Florida with a key-note address from Ubuntu's founder Mark Shuttleworth.
(This is a guest post from Ubuntu developer and Canonical employee Daniel Holbach, which was originally posted here.) Ubuntu Development Update Wow, one week into the release cycle and already and by the time of […]
Next April’s release of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS will provide desktop users with five years of support and maintenance releases Canonical have announced. Previous ‘Long Term Support’ releases provided 3 years of support for desktop users, […]