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Rhys Davies
27 August 2021

Winners of the 21.10 Wallpaper competition

Desktop Article

Congratulations to our winners! With over 200 submissions and several hundred voters, the competition was tough. But, the votes are in, and here are the winning wallpapers. The first two make it into the official release 21.10 image and are automatically entered into the runnings for 22.04. The other eight you see here will be ...

Rhys Davies
20 August 2021

Vote in the Ubuntu 21.10 wallpaper competition

Desktop Article

The time has come. It’s time to vote for the 10  images you would like included in the official Ubuntu 21.10 release as optional wallpapers. Submissions have closed. Thank you to everyone who has participated so far <3 Vote here Brace yourself, there’s a lot. We have a total of 202 submissions, more than ever ...

Leia Ruffini
22 July 2021

Ubuntu in the wild – 22nd of July

Ubuntu Article

The Ubuntu in the wild blog post ropes in the latest highlights about Ubuntu and Canonical around the world on a bi-weekly basis. ...

Igor Ljubuncic
2 July 2021

How to ensure your snap uses the correct theme

Ubuntu Article

An app is an app is an app. But in the world of Linux, things are a little more nuanced. Take VLC as an example. The software may be packaged ever so slightly differently in various Linux distribution archives, even different releases of the same distribution – the av01 codec is an interesting use case ...

Rhys Davies
24 June 2021

Ubuntu 21.10 Wallpaper Competition

Desktop Desktop

We are incredibly proud to announce the beginning of the Impish Indri wallpaper competition! (That’s the code name for Ubuntu 21.10) You can submit your artwork and read the rules over on the Ubuntu discourse. Every new release of Ubuntu comes pre-loaded with new background images that users can select ‘out of the box’. For ...

Leia Ruffini
25 May 2021

Ubuntu in the wild – 25th of May 2021

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The Ubuntu in the wild blog post ropes in the latest highlights about Ubuntu and Canonical around the world on a bi-weekly basis. ...

Holly Hall
21 April 2021

Community AMA: Indaba for 21.04

Desktop Article

What is indaba? An indaba is a conference or gathering to discuss matters of importance, originating from the Xhosa and Zulu languages. Following this theme, we are excited to be hosting our first Desktop Indaba this Friday. Everybody is welcome to take part by asking questions for our AMA (Ask Me Anything) part of the ...

Rhys Davies
19 March 2021

Flutter and Ubuntu so far

Desktop Article

At Flutter Engage, Ken VanDine, engineering manager for the Ubuntu desktop,  made an appearance in the keynote speech to talk about Flutter on Ubuntu. Canonical has been working to support Flutter for some time now, bringing the SDK to Linux, committing to build a new Ubuntu installer, and now, making Flutter the default choice for ...

Alex Murray
1 February 2021

Private home directories for Ubuntu 21.04

Ubuntu Article

Ubuntu has evolved a lot since its early beginnings as an easier-to-use derivative of Debian that catered primarily to the nascent Linux desktop market. Today Ubuntu is deployed beyond just your laptops at home and in the office.  Nowadays you are more likely to find Ubuntu in the cloud, powering some of the world’s best ...

Igor Ljubuncic
31 December 2020

Snaps and themes – on the path to seamless desktop integration

Desktop Article

Alongside performance, theming is one of the primary concerns for desktop snap users. People expect applications bundled inside snaps to look and behave just like their counterparts shipped and packaged in the traditional way in their Linux distributions, and any discrepancy in this space can lead to a degraded user experience. Over the y ...

Alan Pope
10 December 2020

Snaps: How we got here

Desktop Article

I’m celebrating nine years at Canonical, and coming up on 15 years since I started contributing to Ubuntu in the community. It’s been quite the ride, helping build, support and advocate for the most popular Linux desktop, and most used Linux distribution in the cloud. Over those years, we’ve strived to make it easy for ...

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