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Canonical picks open-source leader for COO

sjvn — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:32:56 +0000

When Canonical’s, the company behind Ubuntu, CEO Mark Shuttleworth stepped down and former COO (chief operating officer) Jane Silber moved up, there was concern that the popular Linux company might suffer from a lack of corporate leadership. Worry no more. Open source industry veteran and leader Matt Asay has joined Canonical as its new COO.

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Linux upgrades the easy way

sjvn — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:06:38 +0000

You haven’t seen any new stories from me for the last few days because I’ve been moving. I hate moving. With luck, I’ll never have to buy another house so long as I live. With that off my chest, along the way, I’ve been re-assembling my office-all 28 computers of it. I decided to update [...]

And the best Linux desktop distro of all is…

sjvn — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:52:25 +0000

hen it comes to Linux, there is no one size fits all answer. But, unlike other desktop operating systems, Linux doesn’t try to squeeze you into a system’s that’s too large or too small. Instead, Linux offers a wide variety of distributions and one of them is likely be the right one for you.

Linux, you [...]