Ars Technica (Free subscription) | yesterday
At the OSCON open source convention, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth revealed that his company Canonical aims to open the source code of its Launchpad project management framework within the next year. Read More...
Commercial Open Source Software (Free subscription) | yesterday
Thoughts on the open source database market - Alex Fletcher on Forrester's open source DBMS report. Read also EnterpriseDB survey results. OSCON, Pt. 2.1: A Few Words With Mark Shuttleworth - Mark at OSCON. Open source mash-up: Zimbra + SugarCRM, Loopfuse + Acquia - Matt on open source integrations.
the INQUIRER (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Egan Orion the Inquirer , Thursday 24 July 2008. 12:27:00 And change the world SPEAKING AT O'Reilly Media's Open Source Convention (OSCON) in Portland, Oregon on Tuesday evening, Ubuntu Linux founder Mark Shuttleworth challenged Linux developers to surpass Apple's OS/X desktop eye-candy and polished integration to attract more new users....
OS News (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Mark Shuttleworth today urged development of Linux models to rival what Apple has done on the desktop and mobile devices. Certainly on the desktop experience, we need to shoot beyond the Mac, but I think it's equally relevant [in] the mobile space, Shuttleworth said, outlining the challenge as figuring out how to deliver a 'crisp and clean' experience, without sacrificing the community...
Download Squad (Free subscription) | yesterday
Filed under: OS Updates , Macintosh , Linux Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth has big dreams for Linux. That shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone who's been following the progress of Ubuntu, which releases a major update every six months and keeps getting more and more user friendly. But user friendly is just the beginning. Shuttleworth wants Linux to be prettier too. In fact,...
eWeek (Free subscription) | yesterday
Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, calls on open source developers to make the presentation layer of desktop Linux even more attractive to users than Apples Mac OS. - PORTLAND, Ore. -- Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, the maker of Ubuntu Linux, called for desktop Linux to improve to the point that its presentation layer is more visually exciting than Apple's...
Ars Technica (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth shared his vision of the future during a presentation to a local technology enthusiast group at a small theater in Portland. Read More...
... for Some Value of Magic (Free subscription) | yesterday
Mark, an accomplished speaker, started by confessing that he had no doubt that Linux would be the platform of the future, and suggesting that tools like Firefox and bazaar had claimed ownership of their application space by providing extensibility in a modular way: conform to the interfaces, and the application becomes a platform. All the same, he insisted there is also a need to work with Windows...
Chas' Compilation (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
Mark Shuttleworth during his 2002 space flight. Here are two recent interviews with South African entrepreneur, astronaut and Ubuntu Linux founder Mark Shuttleworth. From the Guardian Newspaper: 'Linux is a platform for people, not just specialists' In 1999, the South African-born Mark Shuttleworth sold his internet company, Thawte, which provided digital...
Commercial Open Source Software (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
Legion of Tech announces that Mark Shuttleworth is the next speaker in their Legion of Talk series, today in Portland from 6 PM to 8 PM, just after the first day of OSCON 2008. If interested register for free and see you there!
OS News (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, recently did an interview with derStandard in which he discussed issues with Ubuntu's latest release, innovation, the future of GNOME, and other subjects. Perhaps the most interesting thing he said is that Linux does not yet deliver "a good enough user experience." Of course, you could say that of any operating system. Editor's Note: QT-based Gnome...
MacUser (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
At the O’Reilly Open Source Convention, Ubuntu Linux chief architect Mark Shuttleworth made a call for Linux to go “beyond the Mac” when it...
CentOS, Linux and Operating Systems (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago
ruphus13 writes “Ubuntu and Canonical have been very active at OSCON this year. They showcased a new distro, announced improvements to their code-hosting platform, and made Mark Shuttleworth available for a couple of talks and panel sessions. Quoting: ‘Ubuntu Netbook Remix, a complete distribution designed to run on Atom-based Netbook PCs. The main difference that [...]
TechBlogger (Free subscription) | yesterday
ruphus13 writes “Ubuntu and Canonical have been very active at OSCON this year. They showcased a new distro, announced improvements to their code-hosting platform, and made Mark Shuttleworth available for a couple of talks and panel sessions. Quoting: ‘Ubuntu Netbook Remix, a complete distribution designed to run on Atom-based Netbook PCs. The main difference that [...]
Lifehacker (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth (who we interviewed last year ) announced that he's out to make Linux a better-looking operating system than Mac OS X—within two years. An ambitious goal! At O'Reilly's OSCON conference this week, Shuttleworth said: "I think the great task in front of us in the next two years is to lift the experience of the Linux desktop from something stable...
