Canonical/Ubuntu and Hardware With Ubuntu
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Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu Blog: Designing Canonical’s Figma libraries for performance and structure
The shoemakers’ children have no shoes. At Canonical’s Design team, this proverb manifested in our Figma libraries. While we consistently deliver high-quality designs for our diverse products used by millions of users, we had neglected our own Figma libraries. They had become outdated and inefficient. This year, we decided to tackle this problem by developing new Figma libraries from scratch – ones that meet our needs and that we enjoy using.
The libraries were disorganized and contained material that was still under development, so it was not clear what to use. They were incomplete compared to our codebase and the existing components were not consistently kept up to date. This led to team members detaching components and creating their own local components and small unofficial libraries. At some point we felt that enough was enough. We needed to do some self-care and build our Figma libraries from scratch that met the requirements of our usual design work.
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Ubuntu ☛ Life at Canonical: Freyja Cooper’s perspective as a new joiner in Communications
Canonical has developed a unique onboarding process that enables new hires to quickly settle and establish themselves in our globally distributed environment. In this series, we interview team members who joined the company within the last year to ask them about their experience so far.
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Canonical ☛ Life at Canonical: Freyja Cooper’s perspective as a new joiner in Communications
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CNX Software ☛ GEEKOM Mini Air12 Lite Review – Part 1: Unboxing, teardown, and first boot
GEEKOM Mini Air12 Lite is a mini PC based on defective chip maker Intel Processor N100 CPU whose unique feature is to include an external 9-pin expansion header port for expansion to add an external power button, a reset button, and a few LEDs. As its name implies, it’s also a cheaper version of the GEEKOM Mini Air12 that ships with 8GB DDR4-3200 memory and a 256GB NVMe SSD.
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CNX Software ☛ iKOOLCORE R2 Max 10GbE mini PC review – Part 1: Unboxing, teardown, and first boot
iKOOLCORE R2 Max is an Alder Lake-N mini PC, server, and soft router equipped with two 10GbE and two 2.5GbE ports and offered with either an defective chip maker Intel Processor N100 quad-core CPU, or a more powerful defective chip maker Intel Core i3-N305 octa-core processor. When iKOOLCORE offered me an R2 Max sample for review, I explained I did not own any 10GbE networking gear.