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One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 7 Progress Report

One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 7 drew to a close last week. Here are the paper cuts that were (or were not) addressed:GNOME Panel icons (on right side) move...

One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 6 Progress Report

One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 6 contained some of the easiest-to-fix paper cuts we’ve seen so far, but it made less progress than any previous milestone....

One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 5 Progress Report

Without further ado, here’s an update on the fifth round of the One Hundred Paper Cuts project. The paper cuts addressed were:When nautilus cannot unmount a...

One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 4 Progress Report

The fourth milestone in the One Hundred Paper Cuts project came and went over a week ago. Here’s a summary of the issues addressed:F-Spot puts photos in...

Landscape System Management Tool Adds Dedicated Server

Today we are announcing the Landscape Dedicated Server Edition — a stand alone version of Landscape that users can install on-site giving them complete...

New individual desktop services

The last few years have seen a dramatic increase in the size and reach of the Ubuntu community while netbooks have brought many new consumer users to Ubuntu. ...

Canonical to offer Ubuntu Desktop support and services

New offerings to individuals and small businesses to ease transition to fastest growing Linux desktop Canonical, the founder of the Ubuntu project,announced...

Distributed user testing of archive behavior in Ubuntu

In response to two paper cuts, “Have the file-roller automatically extract an archive on double click” and “‘Archive Manager’ doesn’t mean anything if you...


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Karmic desktop contest script

I wrote a quick-and-dirty Haskell script to download photos from the Karmic Desktop Contest, setting a new photo as your desktop background every ten minutes....

Canonical releases source code for Launchpad

Release of Launchpad to encourage innovation Canonical, the founder of the Ubuntu project, announced today that it has open-sourced the code that runs...

Featured paper cut: Nautilus, simplified

I thought I’d share a fun paper cut from this week’s milestone that has seen some interesting developments. The proposed changes (and discussion) have grown...

Ubuntu Flickr photo submissions

The flickr group photos are coming along very well! ( http://www.flickr.com/groups/ubuntu-artwork/ ) Keep up the good work!

Karmic wallpapers

Ubuntu would like to include a beautiful set of images for our users to choose from in our next release. In order to accomplish this we have set up a wiki...

Test drive Ubuntu on your Mac with Ubuntu.app

During Gran Canaria Desktop Summit, Ivanka Majic, Kalle Persson, Andreas Nilsson, and I had a conversation about exposing designers to the growing momentum...

Canonical delves deeper into the cloud, launches Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud services

Partners with Eucalyptus to offer ‘private cloud’ assessment, proof-of-concept and support services. Canonical, the founder of the Ubuntu project, today...

More of Ubuntu Training for Europe

With numerous new government backed Open Source initiatives kicking off in The Netherlands, we’ve decided to lead the way and ensure that Ubuntu training is...


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