by Jono Bacon | Nov 7, 2013 | Desktop
Many congratulations to my friends in the [Fedora](https://fedoraproject.org/) community for your 10th anniversary! Fedora is such an important part of the wider Open Source and Free Software community and filled with many, many good people doing great work. I hope...
by Jono Bacon | Dec 7, 2012 | Community, Desktop, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
*This is a personal post and does not neccessarily represent the views of Canonical or the Ubuntu community*. Today Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU project and [Free Software Foundation](https://www.fsf.org) wrote a [critical...
by Jono Bacon | Dec 3, 2012 | Desktop, Ubuntu
Search is at the heart of Ubuntu. Whether you search for applications or content in the dash, search for functionality in your applications the HUD, or search within applications and your file manager, for Ubuntu to be successful we have to get search *right*. As we...
by Jono Bacon | Jul 30, 2012 | Article, Canonical, Community, Desktop, Planet GNOME, Planet Ubuntu
Last week [Benjamin Otte shared some thoughts about GNOME](https://blogs.gnome.org/otte/2012/07/27/staring-into-the-abyss/) that were pretty stark. It gathered some steam and hit Slashdot and this all happened the week [GUADEC](https://guadec.org/) was taking place in...
by Jono Bacon | Mar 12, 2012 | Community, Desktop, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
Last night I posted a [call for a web designer to help](https://archivedblog.jonobacon.com/2012/03/12/web-design-help-needed/) design the accomplishment information inside the app. Fortunately, *Brandon Holtsclaw* responded and sent over some CSS and HTML that was...
by Jono Bacon | Feb 27, 2012 | Community, Desktop, Planet GNOME, Planet Ubuntu
I just wanted to offer my thanks to the [LibreOffice](https://www.libreoffice.org) team for their continued efforts in slimming down, refining, and bringing new features to the office suite. People sometimes talk a bit of smack about LibreOffice, but the team has been...
