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Canonical
26 March 2025

70% of IT teams spend more than 6 hours per week on security patching – new IDC research

Article Canonical announcements

Open source software is a popular tool for businesses for many reasons, but this adoption has introduced new challenges in maintaining their open source software supply chain. 57% of organizations source their packages from upstream open source repositories, and 51% from ecosystem packages like pip or npm. The research...

Canonical
26 March 2025

Canonical
4 December 2024

Canonical announces Ubuntu Security Research Alliance Program

Article Canonical announcements

Today, Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, announced its new Ubuntu Security Research Alliance Program, a free partnership between Canonical and open source vulnerability scanning organizations. The goal is to ensure vulnerability data is more transparent and standardized, while improving on-platform security for Ubuntu...

Canonical
4 December 2024

Oliver Smith
29 August 2023

How New Mexico State University accelerates compliant federal research with Ubuntu

Article Cloud and server

New federal compliance rules meant that NMSU Physical Science Laboratory needed a new operating system. Learn more about why they chose Ubuntu.

Oliver Smith
29 August 2023

Will Grant
9 June 2021

The story of a feature: “View my invoices”

Article Design

In this blog post, I’ll do a deep dive into the process of designing a small feature on ubuntu.com – from the original need, right through the design phase until it’s handed over to engineering. It intends to give you a good high-level overview of how we do user experience (UX) design at Canonical on

Will Grant
9 June 2021

Canonical
8 June 2021

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology taps Canonical for cloud computing overhaul

Article Canonical announcements

New OpenStack and Kubernetes deployments improve computing performance for researchers, ease management pains for IT staff SAUDI ARABIA, June 8, 2021 — Canonical, the publisher ofUbuntu, announced today that it is working with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), a postgraduate university in...

Canonical
8 June 2021

Will Grant
15 April 2021

Transcribing user interviews with Amazon Transcribe

Article Design

A quick ‘how to’ on using Amazon’s Transcribe service to turn user interview recordings into text-transcripts.

Will Grant
15 April 2021

Carla Berkers
24 May 2016

Autopilot: benefits of early release

User Experience Cloud and server

OpenStack is the leading open cloud platform, and Ubuntu is the world’s most popular operating system for OpenStack. Over the

Carla Berkers
24 May 2016

Canonical
7 May 2012

Ubuntu Developer Summit: Design Theatre

Research Ubuntu

Normally the Ubuntu/Canonical Design Team are busy working on our own projects, but it makes a really good change to work on other Free Software design problems for a change. Starting at 22:00 UTC (15:00 PDT) on Monday 7 May 2012, you can join us for the next Ubuntu Design Theatre at the Ubuntu Developer

Canonical
7 May 2012

Canonical
19 April 2012

Berlin: Typobau: Ubuntu Arabic Ausstellung/Exhibition

Research Ubuntu

Some of original sketches for Ubuntu Arabic are about to go on display in Berlin! We’ve talked before about the work done by Rayan Abdullah on drawing and designing the original calligraphy behind the Ubuntu Arabic for the Ubuntu Font Family and from tomorrow you will be able to see that work for yourself. Until

Canonical
19 April 2012

Canonical
2 March 2012

About Usability Testing – Recruiting

Article Ubuntu

Every three months, I conduct benchmark usability testing. I’m calling these tests ‘benchmark testing’ because the aim of these sessions is to measure our progress towards achieving a great user experience with Ubuntu. Last testing took place in October 2011. I am now preparing for testing 12.04 to take place a...

Canonical
2 March 2012

Canonical
4 August 2011

Thunderbird & Evolution Usability Testing

User Experience Ubuntu

Recently we hired an external consultant to compare the usability of 2 email clients: Thunderbird and Evolution. I have taken some highlights from the report to compose this blog. Setting of the usability session The sessions took place in early June at the Canonical Office in London. Thirty participants were recruited....

Canonical
4 August 2011

Canonical
22 April 2011

Unity Benchmark Usability – April 2011

Research Ubuntu

First and last impressions of Unity were that it was quite user-friendly, and pleasing in its design and ease of learning. The majority of participants left the session with very positive feelings and were looking forward to Unity’s release so they could download it. In short, participants in this testing session were...

Canonical
22 April 2011

Canonical
16 February 2011

Thunderbird in the Usability Lab!

Research Cloud and server

I have just completed sessions of usability testing of Thunderbird. This time, I had the pleasure of working with Andreas Nilsson, who came to London to observe the sessions. It was very useful to get his feedback and to work collaboratively with him on the analysis and implications of the findings. In addition to

Canonical
16 February 2011

Canonical
13 January 2011

Can We Appropriate Design?

Research Ubuntu

’Appropriation’ – the taking of a product and using it for one’s own purposes, in ways unintended by the product creators – is implicitly at the core of the philosophy of opensource, because openness provides for change, adaptation and innovation. Design specifications Last year, I conducted several research projects...

Canonical
13 January 2011

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