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Canonical has announced the formation of the new Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group, but Mark Shuttleworth says that the CAG will be closed to new members shortly.
The announcement about the Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group, a group of eight mobile operators that will influence the development of Ubuntu Touch, has been a bi... |
19 June 2013
07:29 GMT |
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The number one bug on Launchpad for the Ubuntu project has been closed by Mark Shuttleworth and a “fix” has been released.
When the Ubuntu project was started, Canonical had a very clear purpose and that was to take from Microsoft's market share.
“Microsoft has a majority market share in the ... |
30 May 2013
08:16 GMT |
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Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Canonical and Self-Appointed Benevolent Dictator for Life, answered a Windows-related question during an Ubuntu Open Week session.
Mark Shuttleworth’s opinion about Microsoft is known to the community, and Canonical has even based its launch campaign on the failings of Windows 8.
D... |
27 May 2013
20:11 GMT |
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Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Canonical, took the time to answer a few question from the community, during an Ubuntu Open Week session.
During the Ubuntu Open Week, Canonical developers have a transparency exercise with the community and they share a lot of interesting information.
Mark Shuttleworth himself has... |
22 May 2013
18:41 GMT |
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Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Canonical, has praised the quality of the daily builds provided by putting a new spin on the rolling release issue.
Before the launch of Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) there was intense discussion about adopting a rolling release model (LTS releases with periodical updates), but the... |
28 April 2013
07:36 GMT |
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Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Canonical, has been called a lot of names, including Benevolent Dictator for Life, but the Forbes magazine has given him another title, that of a disruptor. The Forbes magazine has put together a list of people who are “disrupting” the field in which they are working and... |
28 March 2013
05:29 GMT |
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Everyone is talking about rolling releases for the next generations of Ubuntu OS, but the founder of Canonical, Mark Shuttleworth, has a different opinion on this matter. Mark Shuttleworth took some time to further explain why he is not a big supporter of the rolling release model, and he even said that they had tak... |
12 March 2013
09:31 GMT |
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After announcing a new Unity Next and Mir display manager, Canonical has taken a lot of heat from the community, but Mark Shuttleworth has invited everyone to settle down and stop dramatizing the entire situation.
Canonical's founder, Mark Shuttleworth took the time to explain, in a long blog post, what his exp... |
7 March 2013
11:47 GMT |
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The rolling release model has been in the news for some time now, but the founder of Canonical, Mark Shuttleworth has stepped in and calmed the spirits by putting things into perspective.
A part of the community, and quite a few developers, are pushing for an Ubuntu rolling release model. This would essentially mea... |
7 March 2013
07:25 GMT |
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Canonical has finally made public the rest of their plans to take over the world, which also happens to include the new Ubuntu for tablets.
Mark Shuttleworth has taken upon himself the task of presenting a new product from Canonical, Ubuntu for tablets, which surprised no one. The Mobile World Congress is set to sta... |
19 February 2013
11:41 GMT |
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Canonical had to calm down quite a few people when they announced that the Unity Dash searches will also be done online, but now they are determined to nip the problem in the bud by installing a so-called “incognito” mode into the operating system.
Various solutions were proposed for solving this problem... |
18 February 2013
15:30 GMT |
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Ubuntu-powered smartphones should be available as early as October this year, or at least this is what Mark Shuttleworth says.
Ubuntu Phone OS made its debut in early January and the first estimates of its actual arrival on the market was 2014.
In a conversation with Mark Shuttleworth, Michael Hickins from Wall St... |
7 February 2013
03:17 GMT |
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Ubuntu Phone OS is not even out the door yet and the Internet is already buzzing with interest, especially when it's about the performance capabilities.
When it was first showed a week ago, Ubuntu Phone OS may have looked pretty and interesting, but everyone noticed that it had some considerable lag.
Mark Shu... |
8 January 2013
08:17 GMT |
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CES 2013 has arrived in full force and Mark Shuttleworth is down in the tranches demoing the working of Ubuntu for smartphones.
This type of marketing was usually done by other people, but Mark Shuttleworth has taken a personal interest in Ubuntu for smartphones and it's now demonstrating the operating system, ... |
8 January 2013
04:17 GMT |
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Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of the Canonical, has provided some insights in the future of Ubuntu and talked about his plans to conquer the Linux world.
It’s not a secret that Mark Shuttleworth has big plans for Ubuntu and it’s been clear for some time that he wants Ubuntu on all the major platforms, i... |
11 December 2012
14:55 GMT |
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As you all already know, the LinuxCon Europe 2012 event opened its gates to the Linux public on Monday, November 5. Below we've posted pictures from the first day of the event, courtesy of The Linux Foundation.
The event started with keynotes from Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth, Red Hat's Brian Steven... |
6 November 2012
04:33 GMT |
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Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Canonical, has admitted that one of his blog posts has enraged the Ubuntu and Linux community and took the blame for the communication gaffe he supposedly committed. It's not an usual thing to see Mark Shuttleworth admitting to have made a mistake. He was in a criticizing spot ... |
26 October 2012
07:48 GMT |
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Ubuntu Open Week is an event organized by Canonical in which the community gets some insights on the development process of Ubuntu in the hope of getting new contributors.
According to Canonical, Ubuntu Open Week is a week of IRC and On Air! tuition and Q+A sessions, which takes place on #ubuntu-classroom on irc.fr... |
24 October 2012
04:04 GMT |
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Mark Shuttleworth always said that Ubuntu will forever be free, but that doesn't mean that users can't contribute financially to Ubuntu's development. Canonical, the developer of Ubuntu operating systems, has introduced a donation page, right before users access the download link for the distribution.... |
10 October 2012
02:57 GMT |
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A couple of days ago, Mark Shuttleworth defended Canonical's decision of implementing an Amazon lens in Unity's Dash starting with Ubuntu 12.10, but he also shared an interesting view of the market.
The backlash from the Amazon lens announcement has been considerable, especially because the lens is directl... |
25 September 2012
02:38 GMT |
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Starting with Ubuntu 12.10, Unity Dash will also return answers from Amazon, according to the founder of Canonical, Mark Shuttleworth. In a post on his personal blog, Mark Shuttleworth has probably annoyed a lot of people with a new feature it will be available starting with Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal).In the pres... |
24 September 2012
05:10 GMT |
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Canonical announced today, September 18th, that the Ubuntu Open Week for Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) will take place between 24th and 26th October, 2012, on the usual Ubuntu IRC channel, #ubuntu-classroom.
The Ubuntu Open Week event was created to teach end users who to work with the tools included in the Ubuntu... |
19 September 2012
01:01 GMT |
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Canonical founder, Mark Shuttleworth, has invested $1,000,000 dollars (€782,000) in Inktank, the only company that provides enterprise-level support for Ceph Distributed Storage System. Ceph is a solution that combines object storage, block storage, and a POSIX-compatible file system in one unified platform t... |
11 September 2012
11:33 GMT |
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Earlier today, we’ve had the pleasure of recording a live video stream from the O'Reilly OSCON 2012 event with Ubuntu’s father and Canonical’s founder, Mark Shuttleworth. Called “Making Magic From Cloud To Client,” Mark’s speech lasted for 25 minutes, and it consisted of two... |
19 July 2012
17:20 GMT |
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Today, July 19th, at O’Reilly OSCON 2012 Mark Shuttleworth revealed a new feature that will be implemented in the upcoming Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) operating system, called Ubuntu Web Apps. As you can see from the video below, presented by Canonical, Ubuntu Web Apps allows Ubuntu users to run online app... |
19 July 2012
17:15 GMT |
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Canonical and Microsoft have formed a partnership in order to make Ubuntu 12.04 LTS operating system available on Windows Azure. In case you were wondering what Windows Azure is and why Canonical is interested in it, you must know that the new service from Microsoft is an easy-to-use management portal and command-l... |
8 June 2012
03:50 GMT |
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Mark Shuttleworth, father of the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, proudly announced earlier yesterday, May 7th, at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Oakland, USA, the goals for the upcoming Ubuntu 12.10 operating system. Ubuntu Developer Summit for Quantal Quetzal, the upcoming version of the popular Ubuntu operatin... |
8 May 2012
09:10 GMT |
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Yesterday, May 1st, we've announced that the Ubuntu Open Week event will take place on IRC from May 2nd to May 4th, and that Mark Shuttleworth will be present a day before the event to talk with the Ubuntu users. Therefore, the "Ask Mark" session was held on May 1st, 2012, between 9:00 pm and 10:00 pm UTC, and... |
2 May 2012
09:21 GMT |
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Canonical announced that the Ubuntu Open Week for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) will take place between 2nd to 4th May, 2012, on the usual Ubuntu IRC channel, #ubuntu-classroom. The Ubuntu Open Week event was created to teach end users who to work with the tools included in the Ubuntu operating system through... |
1 May 2012
07:30 GMT |
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Mark Shuttleworth, father of the popular Ubuntu operating system, proudly announced a few miutes ago, April 23rd, the name and the goals for the next version of Ubuntu OS. Yes, we are talking about Ubuntu 12.10, dubbed Quantal Quetzal and scheduled for release this year on October 18th. "And so the stage is set fo... |
23 April 2012
09:51 GMT |
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Today, March 27th, Mark Shuttleworth posted on his blog some interesting information about how the notification system in the Ubuntu operating system will work in the near future. In Mark's vision, a smarter notification system will no longer interfere with the indicator menus, if users invoke them, no more soun... |
27 March 2012
11:41 GMT |
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Sonia Ouarti from Canonical announced a couple of days ago, December 2nd, that the Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth and devops expert Clint Byrum will hold a webinar about Juju, this Thursday, December 8th at 3pm GMT."Cloud deployment is different. Juju enables tighter dev/ops handovers, the ability to scale services... |
5 December 2011
02:23 GMT |
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It appears that Mark Shuttleworth, father of the Ubuntu project, gave an interview to Amber Graner, an Ubuntu contributor involved in the community since February 2009.In the interview, Mark Shuttleworth talks about the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS codename and how he came up with the idea for Precise Pangolin.He also talks abou... |
8 November 2011
13:01 GMT |
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Ubuntu Developer Summit for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) is taking place these days (October 31st - November 4th) in Orlando, Florida, USA.Yesterday morning, Mark Shuttleworth delivered his usual keynote, saying that Unity is here to stay and everyone should embrace it.For Ubuntu 12.04 LTS the developers will ... |
1 November 2011
10:15 GMT |
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Mark Shuttleworth, father of the Ubuntu operating system, announced yesterday evening, October 31st, at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Orlando, USA that Unity is here to stay and everyone should use it. Ubuntu Developer Summit for Precise Pangolin, the upcoming version of the popular Ubuntu operating system is takin... |
1 November 2011
09:43 GMT |
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Mark Shuttleworth has announced that Canonical is planning on taking its operating system, Ubuntu, to other platforms such as smartphones, TVs, and tablets. In an interview with Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, for zdnet.com, Mark Shuttleworth revealed his plans for Ubuntu operating system.Apparently, 12.04 LTS (Long Term ... |
31 October 2011
11:42 GMT |
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Among the new features of Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot), there's a tool called Orchestra, which automatically installs Ubuntu across sets of computers.As announced a few minutes ago by Mark Shuttleworth on his personal blog, Orchestra is an amazing tool, which helps system administrators to easily bring up a far... |
27 October 2011
11:01 GMT |
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Mark Shuttleworth has spoken on his blog about the decline of mainframes and the rise of cloud computing, in light of the newly launched Ubuntu Cloud 11.10. The founder of Canonical, Mark Shuttleworth, said that although the mainframes (or big iron) is about to get a run for its money with the increasing importance o... |
25 October 2011
05:17 GMT |
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Mark Shuttleworth wrote today, October 20th, on his blog, about the impending new Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) that will be launched next spring, April 26th.As Mark has already said, Linux distributions have tried to prioritize items to backport, but that puts the stability of known-good configurations very much a... |
20 October 2011
10:45 GMT |
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Ubuntu’s founder Mark Shuttleworth and Redmonk’s Stephen O’Grady will hold a webinar regarding their ideas on cloud computing and Ubuntu Cloud in particular.Cloud computing is getting closer and closer with every generation of processors and operating systems. Ubuntu 11.10 is the star of the show fo... |
14 October 2011
10:41 GMT |
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Mark Shuttleworth, father of the popular Ubuntu operating system, proudly announced last evening (October 5th) the name and the goals for the next version of Ubuntu.Yes dear readers, we are talking about Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, dubbed Precise Pangolin and scheduled for release next year on April 26th."It’s a perennia... |
6 October 2011
02:55 GMT |
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Mark Shuttleworth, father of the Ubuntu operating system, announced yesterday, May 9th, at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Budapest that Canonical's goal is to have 200 million Ubuntu users by 2015. Ubuntu Developer Summit for Oneiric Ocelot, the upcoming version of the popular Ubuntu operating system is taking ... |
10 May 2011
03:34 GMT |
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The founder of Ubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth, has announced at UDS that despite the recent decision of Steve Jobs and Apple to move away from the Java environment, Canonical will continue to consider Java a first grade development platform.Besides announcing a new MacBook Air and a new OS, Apple also made a much more imp... |
27 October 2010
10:43 GMT |
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The basic desktop UI paradigm has been around for almost three decades now and, though they have clearly evolved, things generally change very slowly. It makes sense, OS makers don’t want to alienate their users with radical changes. Even Linux, which thrives on personalization options, hasn’t exactly sto... |
28 April 2010
09:26 GMT |
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Mark Shuttleworth, father of the Ubuntu operating system, announced Thursday evening on his blog that, starting with March 2010, he would step down as CEO of Canonical, being replaced by Jane Silber, the current COO (Chief Operating Officer) and Director of Online Services. In the shocking announcement, Shuttleworth ... |
18 December 2009
06:40 GMT |
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A couple of members of the Ubuntu Georgia US LoCo team (Josh and Nick Ali) recorded on April 2nd, 2009 an interview with the famous Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical and founder of the popular Ubuntu OS. In the 50-minute long interview, they talked about the upcoming Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) operating system ... |
3 April 2009
06:17 GMT |
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In a recent post on his blog, Mark Shuttleworth, CEO at Canonical, has talked about synchronicity between Long Term Support releases from different Linux distributions. One of the arguments he brought to support this idea was that developers could focus more on the important role of component selection, integration, ... |
19 May 2008
09:10 GMT |
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Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth is ready to jump on the same wagon with Microsoft on claims of intellectual property violations. "Microsoft is not the real threat" argues Shuttleworth, despite the fact that on May 14, 2007, Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith and Vice President of Intellectual Property and Licensin... |
22 May 2007
10:44 GMT |
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