Category Archives: Planet

Mir – An outpost envisioned as a new home

By David Planella | Published: 2013-03-04

A guest post from Thomas Voss’ blog. Thomas is the Technical Architect (Client) at Canonical: Some time ago, Canonical started internal discussions about our convergence strategy, clearly spelling out the distant target of shaping and developing a single computing platform and operating system that is able to power the cloud, classic desktop machines, laptops, TV […]

Mir + Unity QML + Unity APIs = Unity

By David Planella | Published: 2013-03-04

A guest post from Olli Ries’s blog. Olli is the Engineering Director for Unity and Display Server at Canonical: It all sounds good in theory… Not too long ago, Mark communicated the vision for Ubuntu and Unity for 2013 as “[…] Unity in 2013 will be all about mobile – bringing Ubuntu to phones and […]

Ubuntu Developer Summits Now Online and Every Three Months

By akgraner | Published: 2013-02-26

From the beginning of the Ubuntu project the Ubuntu community has discussed, designed, and planned each release of Ubuntu at the Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS), which happens every six months at the beginning of a new release cycle. The event, organized and funded by Canonical, is designed to get the brightest minds in the Ubuntu […]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 305

By pleia2 | Published: 2013-02-26

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #305 for the week February 18 – 24, 2013, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Ubuntu unveils tablet experience with multi-tasking Releasing the Ubuntu Touch Developer Preview and SDK Alpha and Taking Ubuntu Touch Developer Preview to new levels Ubuntu […]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 304

By pleia2 | Published: 2013-02-19

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #304 for the week February 11 – 17, 2013, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Steam Client now available in Ubuntu Software Center Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS released 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) Alpha 2 Released Welcome New Members and Developers Ubuntu Stats […]