Most people were caught by surprise yesterday when Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical, the company that backs-up Ubuntu stepped down as the Linux company’s CEO. But after I thought about it for a bit, the move made perfect sense to me and for where I believe Shuttleworth wants to take Ubuntu.
First, as for his move, [...]
In a morning press call on December 17th, 2009 Mark Shuttleworth announced that he was stepping down as head of Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu. In his place, Jane Silber, the current Chief Operating Officer who has been with Canonical since 2004 will take over as CEO.
Shuttleworth added that he will not, in any way, [...]
I just reviewed three of the most popular Linux distributions–Fedora, openSUSE, and Ubuntu–and each one is great for the right user. That said, there are many other excellent distributions, so let me tell you about two of my other favorites: MEPIS and Mint.
MEPIS is easily the most obscure of my favorite distributions. Unlike most Linux [...]
At first glance, there’s little to differentiate between the latest releases of the top Linux distributions: Red Hat’s Fedora 12, Novell’s openSUSE 11.2 and Canonical’s Ubuntu 9.10. They each use the latest releases of open-source applications and are based on recent Linux kernels. Each of the distros also includes open-source applications such as OpenOffice [...]
Some people may see Google’s Chrome operating system as competiting with existing Linux desktop distributions. Canonical, the company behind popular Linux distribution, Ubuntu isn’t one of them. They’re working with Google to make Chrome.
Sources at Canonical tell me that Canonical Ubuntu developers have been working with Google’s Chrome team since before Google announced its netbook [...]
