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“We’re Going to be Building Awesome Things” – Ubuntu TV Interview with Canonical’s Will Cooke

Ubuntu TV captured the attention and imaginations of the technology press after its reveal at CES 2012. And rightly so. The demo of Ubuntu TV shown off at the event proved that not only are Canonical serious about a multi-device future for Ubuntu and its Unity interface, but also have the engineering and design expertise to pull it [...]

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Developer Week: Summary Day 3

It’s sad news, yes – Ubuntu Developer Week for the 12.04 cycle is over. It’s been three fantastic days full of action-packed sessions. If you couldn’t attend, check out the logs of the sessions, all of them are posted on the UDW page. Here’s what happened on day 3, yesterday: Fixing Desktop bugs — seb128Sébastien [...]

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Ubuntu 12.04 Development Update 12

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(Brought to you by the Ubuntu Development News team and first posted here.) Development Update It is the week of Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha 2 which is to be released in just a few hours. Everybody has been getting their good work into Ubuntu, so it is a great opportunity for everyone to go check it [...]

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Developer Week: Summary Day 2, Outlook Day 3

Day 2 of Ubuntu Developer Week is over and it was awesome! Logs up are up at the UDW page, so go and check them out if you couldn’t make it yesterday. Let’s take a look at what happened yesterday: Bringing your app to Ubuntu — dpm David Planella kicked of day 2 and gave [...]

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Developer Week: Summary Day 1, Outlook Day 2

Ubuntu Developer Week 2012

Day 1 of Ubuntu Developer Week is over and what a fantastic day it was. Logs up are up at the UDW page, so go and check them out if you couldn’t make it yesterday. Let’s take a look at what happened yesterday: Introduction to Ubuntu development — dholbach Around 340 people showed up for [...]

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Ubuntu Developer Week – Outlook Day 1

Ubuntu Developer Week 2012

Today is day 1 of this cycle’s Ubuntu Developer Week.

Let’s have a quick look at today’s schedule to whet your appetite…

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Ubuntu 12.04 Development Update 11

(This article was posted here before) Development Update Huzzah, time flies when you are having fun. We are in week 15 of the release already and have 13 weeks left until release. Next week, according to the plan, we will get Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha 2 out. As you can imagine, everybody is trying to get [...]

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Ubuntu Developer Week: 31st January-2nd February

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It’s everybody’s second-most favourite time of the release again. No, not the actual release, but it’s Ubuntu Developer Week!

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Ubuntu 12.04 Development Update 10

14 weeks to Ubuntu 12.04

Welcome back everyone after the holiday break. Since we spoke the last time, there has lots been happening. By now we only have 14 weeks left until Ubuntu 12.04 a.k.a. Precise Pangolin, another LTS release gets out the door.

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Ubuntu Tablet to Compete with Android, iOS

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An Ubuntu tablet will ‘battle’ against Android and iOS Canonical’s CEO Jane Silber has said. And although Ubuntu isn’t running on tablets yet she told Techworld‘s Paul Krill that ’announcements in that area‘ are to be made later this year. Ubuntu tablet Ubuntu Tablet has been a long-held want for many Ubuntu users. As the owner of a variety of [...]

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A First Look at New Ubuntu Laptops and PCs from CTL

CTL Ubuntu Lineup

I had the opportunity yesterday to visit CTL Corp located in Portland, Oregon and sit down with Erik Stromquist, Executive VP and COO and Michael Tupper, Director of Business Development. The purpose of the visit was to get a highlight of CTL Corp’s new Ubuntu Product initiative – and I was beyond excited.

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Canonical Seeking Designer for ‘Core Apps’, ‘HIG’

The Ubuntu One Control Panel could be an example of Ubuntu HIG

A recent job posting from Canonical appears to hint at Ubuntu’s continued commitment to first-class user experience. Some of the key ‘responsibilities’ listed in the opening make for interesting reading. They call for: –  ‘…[a] talented, creative and self-motivated interaction designer to design a set of core applications for Ubuntu, leading the process from scoping [...]

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Canonical to Reveal ‘Ubuntu Concept Design’ At CES 2012

Canonical will show off an ‘exclusive Ubuntu concept design’ at next weeks (10th – 13th January) Consumer Electronics Show (CES).

And, tantalisingly, we’ve been told that the top secret design is ‘so awesome’ that ‘it might just surprise a lot of people in the industry.’

Just what could it be? We have a think…

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The Ubuntu Vodafone WebBook “Disappoints” Reviewers

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The  Ubuntu-powered Vodafone WebBook has been out in South Africa for a few months but little opinion on the device has appeared online.  Or so I thought. Having exhausted my own avenues trying to get hold of one of the devices to review for OMG! Ubuntu! I was pointed in the direction of a write-up of the [...]

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Ubuntu 12.04 Development Update 9

(This was first posted here.) Development Update This will be the last development update of 2011, so let’s see where we stand in terms of 12.04. We are 10 weeks into the release cycle and have still 18 weeks to go. There is definitely still a lot left to be done, but the foundations for [...]

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