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You can now follow us on Dribbble and Behance for design inspiration. See things like: the Ubuntu #reinvent digital campaign, Juju embeddable card and Suru app icon designs. Follow us 🙂

Zygmunt Krynicki wrote about the availability of bite-sized bugs for the snapd project.I took this as an opportunity to go through the snapcraft bugs as well and tag a few as bitesize myself. snapcraft is written in python, nicely commented documented and comes with a comprehensive test-suite. The people working on it are a lovely bunch a

A few weeks ago we participated in Phonegap Day EU. It was a great opportunity to meet with the Cordova development team and we had a range of app developers gather for this occasion. The latest Ubuntu 16.04 LTS release was demoed, running on a brand new BQ M10 tablet in convergence mode. Creating responsive

Just over 2 months ago we launched our first convergence device, the Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition tablet with partners BQ. Since then we’re constantly working to evolve the platform to provide better overall performance and speed with our Over-the-Air updates (OTA.) Our OTA updates are released approximately 6-8 weeks apart from each other

Last month we kicked off our first in our Digital Signage meets IoT series focusing on Building success with a RaspberryPi. It was a great session from Screenly founder, Viktor Petersson and Sixteen:Nine editor Dave Haynes who touched on industry trends, disruptive effects on hardware costs and adoption of agile software. If you missed th

We’re thrilled to be working with Mycroft, the open source answer to proprietary natural language platform. Mycroft has adopted Ubuntu Core and Snaps to deliver their software to Mycroft hardware, as well as Snaps to enable desktop users to install the software regardless of the Linux distribution they are using! CEO of Mycroft, Joshua Mo

For those that may not know, Snaps are a new way for developers to package their apps, bringing with it many advantages over the more traditional package formats such as .deb, .rpm, and others. Snaps are secure, isolated, secure and allow apps to be rolled back should an issue occur. Snaps really are the future

Ubuntu to Become Preferred Linux OS for Pivotal Cloud Foundry Leveraging Canonical’s Ubuntu Advantage (UA) Support Services Automated Approach to Security Patch Management Provides Game-changing, Rapid Response Approach to Linux Vulnerabilities for Pivotal Cloud Foundry Customers Future Commitment to Formalize Industry Security Certificat

BackgroundIntegrating desktop applications with snaps has been a little bit challenging in terms of getting them looking and behaving as part of the system. This means following general desktop theming, having global application menu integration, getting the icon caches, getting configuration keys and such. Also, the technologies and tool

Quick, easy and cost-predictable way to get a fully functional OpenStack cloud Built on Ubuntu OpenStack and using application management tools Juju and MaaS Fully managed cloud service takes away the hassle of day to day IT operations Frankfurt, Germany and London, U.K. 5th July, 2016 – e-shelter, leading data center operator in Europe a

Following the announcement of snaps being supported across a range of key Linux distributions, the development teams working on snaps and Snapcraft are making universal snaps one of the main topics of their next sprint in Heidelberg, Germany, from 18-2

Last month the Juju design team was away in Lithuania, Vilnius on a working sprint. We met up with the distributed development team to help tackle technical and design issues. These sprints take away the barrier of time zones — which usually make it harder to ask engineers questions about features that are being designed.

We are excited to announce today that SoftLayer, an IBM Company and a world-leading IaaS provider, is now an Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud partner for Ubuntu guest images. For users, this means you can now harness the value of the best Ubuntu user experience, optimized for SoftLayer bare metal and virtual servers: Ubuntu cloud guest

Here are the best links shared by the design team over the last month: SuperHi Summer School Cartographic ethics: Oceania, the truncated continent New Google Fonts The True Size Of … Cartography Comparison: Google Maps & Apple Maps Web Accessibility: Developing with Empathy Improving UX For Color-Blind Users Invisible Design: Co-Designing

Every year since 2001, creatives from different design disciplines meet and share their ideas and innovations about digital, interaction and print design in the design festival called OFFF. This festival was previously held in different countries, but has now found its home in Barcelona at the Design Museum. For three days the festival wa

Last week I was invited to Beijing to take part in the China Launch Sprint. The focus of the sprint was to identify action items in our product roadmap for the next devices that will ship Ubuntu Touch in the Chinese market later this year. I am a lead UX designer in the product strategy