It seems like this week’s popular anti-Ubuntu FUD is that Canonical are missing people who can fix particular classes of bugs, many people have said the same thing in comments on my previous blog post.
So I’d like to point out that Canonical are Hiring! and we have many open positions listed on our Employment page.
If [...]
UDS is over! And in the customary wrap-up I stood up and told the audience what the Foundations team have been discussing all week. One of the items is almost certainly going to get a little bit of publicity.
We are going to be doing the work to have btrfs as an installation option, [...]
I’m sure you’ve all by now read the announcement of systemd, and have probably come running to my blog to see what the reaction of Ubuntu and the Upstart author is!
As you know, improvements to the boot process has been something that Ubuntu have been working on for a few years now and this led [...]
As you probably know by now, even if you’re not following the karmic development closely, Ubuntu has gained new splash screen software called xsplash. This is the hard work of Cody Russell and Ken VanDine of the Ubuntu Desktop Experience team.
There’s been some press coverage of this already, and various comments from different people raising [...]
There’s been a meme going around the open source community for a while now. That programming in C is somehow dirty, distasteful and worst-of-all inefficient compared to programming in a high-level language such as C# or Python.
Its detractors will tell you how it takes much longer it takes to program anything in C. They’ll point [...]
Continuing my mission to put together a kick-ass team to develop the Ubuntu Desktop, the following position is now up on the website:
Posting Date & ID: September 2007 UDD
Job Location: Your home with broadband. Some international travel will be required.
Job Summary: To adapt and develop the GNOME desktop to improve the Ubuntu user experience.
Key responsibilities [...]
Last week, a few of us gathered at Canonical’s London offices to oversee the final release preparations. This basically consists of testing the various candidate CD images and performing both install and upgrade tests on them.
As you can imagine, three people performing repeated tests of edgy means that the fabled startup sound got many, [...]
Here at Canonical Towers we have several staff who worship at the altar of Extreme Programming, and as such many of the methodologies and rituals prescribed by that religion find their way into our day-to-day working practices. A few of these came together in an interesting way a few weeks ago, and it was [...]
