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Time flies like an arrow! This week marks the final round of paper cuts for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS “Lucid Lynx.” We’ve done an outstanding job so far but we still have work ahead of us. Here are some paper cuts that need attention this round:“Create Document” Templates difficult to useRight-clicking on the Desktop and choosing

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS “Lucid Lynx” is just around the corner and Ubuntu users around the world are eager to be inspired by your awesome artwork and photos. You know the drill–submit your photos to the Ubuntu Artwork Flickr pool and we’ll ship as many beautiful images as we can fit on the CD!

The coming release will be the second in which we’ve gone out to the wider world to source some gorgeous photos to put into Ubuntu. When you get this fab desktop environment we also want you to have some gorgeous backgrounds right out of the box. So once again we’re running a wallpaper contest on

Lucid is well under way so I thought it is time to remind everyone of a few initiatives you might want to get involved with:The Ubuntu Artwork wallpaper flickr groupSubmit a theme for the Community Themes package in LucidHelp us with identify

One Hundred Paper Cuts for Lucid is going well. 56 paper cuts have been fixed so far. We have to fix at least 20 more paper cuts to match the number of paper cuts fixed in Karmic, a record you can help us surpass by working on closing the 26 paper cuts with bugs attached.This

Watching a new Nena video today on VIVA, I realized that a) she’s hot for her age but makes crap music and b) I really need an evil-bunny-man costume.Naturally, that made me think of Jono’s wonderful costume (not to mention the effects it had on t

Picked up a N900 the other day. It’s really quite amazing. Best of all it’s linux *and* the keyboard is big enough for my thick fingers. The design isn’t as nice as the iphone though.

Sebastian Bacher landed improved Compiz keyboard shortcucts in Lucid this week during the distro sprint in Portland, Oregon (which is by far the best sprint I’ve ever been to–everybody is rocking):Super↓E↓↑↑ triggers Expo as usual.Super↓W↓↑↑ scales all windows on your current workspace (hint: try typing in scale mode!).Super↓A↓↑↑ scales a

We are delighted to welcome Matt Asay to the Canonical fold, taking up the role of Chief Operating Officer with immediate effect. The details can be found in the press release. Matt has also written about the new challenge in his Open Road blog. So all that remains to say here is how much the

Canonical Ltd., the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, announced today that open source industry veteran Matt Asay has joined the company as chief operating officer (COO) — responsible for aligning strategic goals and operational activities, the optimization of day-to-day operations, and leadership of Canonical marketing and back-office functi

The Hexayurt is a new kind of sheltering solution. To make the simplest hexayurt, make a wall by putting six sheets of plywood on their sides in a hexagon. Cut six more sheets in half diagonally, and screw them together into a shallow cone. Lift the roof on to the wall with a large group

This concept video has been doing the rounds following a brief showing on Tech Crunch. It looks like a tablet interface you could do work on but I have to wonder if that’s a way of working that I’d even really want. For better or worse we’ve established a way of working with traditional documents

The Ubuntu platform sprint in Portland, Oregon has been an amazing experience. We’ve gotten loads of work done and are having a great time in a wonderful city. Compared to Dallas, this city rocks 😉

I thought I’d write a quick update on paper cut progress for Lucid. Last week was our “Sound & Video” paper jam. The following paper cuts were fixed:Totem: Must have a fullscreen button“Razor” [is] an odd name for the split toolRhythmbox Notification Bubble shows wrong cover art[Sound Recorder] Cancel button doesn’t use correct behaviour

I’m a talented software engineer. I have a good deal of application programming experience on Windows, Mac OS, Linux, iPhone, Android, and the Web. I’m crazy about style guidelines, correctness, functional decomposition, self-documenting code, explicit documentation, code review, unit tests, etc. I’m confident that for most application co

This week were very pleased to see three companies behind three great technologies announce their support for Ubuntu. In the run up to the LTS in late April we are keen that our users are aware of the growing number of application options that they can have on their preferred operating system. These will be