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19 posts from May 2014
Making ubuntu.com responsive: adapting our navigation to small screens (9)
By Inayaili de León Persson, 30 May 2014
This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. One of the biggest challenges when making the move to responsive was tackling the navigation...
Ubuntu’s support model fosters a strong ecosystem for OpenStack
By Canonical, 29 May 2014
Ubuntu was the first platform to embrace OpenStack, and OpenStack development largely happens on Ubuntu. As the reference platform for OpenStack, the majority...
Making ubuntu.com responsive: making our grid responsive (8)
By Inayaili de León Persson, 29 May 2014
This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. A big part of converting our existing fixed-width desktop site to be responsive was to make...
Canonical joins the Cloud Foundry Foundation
By Canonical, 29 May 2014
Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, is pleased to join the Cloud Foundry Foundation. Cloud Foundry has been a PaaS platform of choice for developers and...
Making ubuntu.com responsive: approach to content (7)
By Inayaili de León Persson, 23 May 2014
This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. If you’re transitioning a fixed-width website into a responsive one with several time and...
Latest from the web team — May 2014
By Inayaili de León Persson, 22 May 2014
We’re fast approaching the summer, and the first few sunny days have already arrived in London. The web team cannot slow its pace though… In the last few...
Ubuntu Cloud documentation – 14.04 LTS
By Canonical, 21 May 2014
This article is out of date. Please visit ubuntu.com/autopilot for up-to-date instructions on installing OpenStack. Deploying production grade OpenStack with...
Cloudbase Solutions partnership
By Dustin Kirkland, 20 May 2014
We are happy to announce a partnership with Cloudbase Solutions for bringing Windows support in Juju and MaaS. During the keynote of the OpenStack Summit in...
Sticky notes and a mobile first approach
By Carla Berkers, 20 May 2014
As the number of Juju users has been rapidly increasing over the past year, so has the number of new solutions in the form of charms and bundles. To help...
Making ubuntu.com responsive: scoping the work (6)
By Inayaili de León Persson, 19 May 2014
This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. Following the designers and developers sprint, we had a full web team workshop day to discuss...
Huge downloads for Ubuntu Kylin 14.04 LTS, first OEM partner announced
By Jon Melamut, 15 May 2014
Over the last few months we’ve seen significant traction with Ubuntu Kylin among users and PC hardware manufacturers. Downloads from the Ubuntu Kylin...
The browser is dead. Long live the browser!
By Canonical, 15 May 2014
With the unstoppable rise of mobile apps, some pundits within the tech industry have hastily demoted the mobile web to a second-class citizen, or even...
NUDT and Canonical bring OpenStack to world’s fastest supercomputer
By Canonical, 14 May 2014
China’s National University of Defense Technology, NUDT, developers of the Tianhe-2 supercomputer, and Canonical, the organisation behind Ubuntu, today...
Ubuntu announcements from the Atlanta OpenStack Summit
By Dustin Kirkland, 13 May 2014
Atlanta, Tuesday May 13th 2014 Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and Canonical, made several announcements on stage at the OpenStack Summit today. The...
Jumpstart Training with the Orange Box
By Dustin Kirkland, 13 May 2014
Two full days of technical training, covering Ubuntu, MAAS, Juju, Landscape, and OpenStack. We are delighted to introduce a new delivery mechanism for...
Fast with an extra helping of faster
By Mark Baker, 13 May 2014
Today AMD announced a set of industry benchmark performance records for hyperscale OpenStack running on Ubuntu OpenStack (Icehouse) and AMD’s SeaMicro...