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Mark Shuttleworth Explains HUD for Ubuntu 12.10

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

Mark Shuttleworth Talks About Ubuntu

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

Ubuntu Open Week 2012: May 2nd - May 4th

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

Ubuntu 12.10 a.k.a. Quantal Quetzal

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

Mark Shuttleworth Explains Smarter Notifications for Ubuntu

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

Mark Shuttleworth Juju Webinar on December 8th

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

Mark Shuttleworth Interview for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

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

Users Want a Better Unity in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

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

Ubuntu's Unity Interface Is For Everyone

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

Ubuntu 12.10 is Also For Phones and Tablets

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

Orchestra Provides Automatic Deployment of Ubuntu

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

Mark Shuttleworth: Mainframes Are Going Away

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

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Goals

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

Mark Shuttleworth Webinar on November 16th

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

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS a.k.a. Precise Pangolin

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

Ubuntu Aims for 200 Million Users In 4 Years

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

Canonical Will Not Abandon Java, Says Mark Shuttleworth

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

Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition Could Get a Global Menu

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

Mark Shuttleworth Will No Longer Be CEO of Canonical

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

Mark Shuttleworth Talks About Ubuntu 9.04

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

Mark Shuttleworth Wants Synchronicity between Linux Distributions

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

Ubuntu Founder Sides with Microsoft on Patent Violation Claims

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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