After seven years as #Ubuntu CTO, I'm ready to move on from #Canonical. Official announcement at

After seven years as #Ubuntu CTO, I'm ready to move on from #Canonical. Official announcement at

#openSUSE community manager, Jos Poortvliet, on collaboration and thoughts on our video chat: #gnome #canonical #ubuntu

Timeline: In 2009, #GNOME 3.0 gets serious and we witness the (very) quiet birth of #Unity. #canonical #ubuntu

Moving the needle in #GNOME... How contributions and decisions are made #canonical #ubuntu

The libappindicator Story: Behind the extraordinary claims made by Mark Shuttleworth: #gnome #ubuntu #canonical

An Interview with Jane Silber - CEO of #Canonical since March 2010 #ubuntu

Matt fielding questions from field in his new role

"With this being our first time comparing the performance of Mac OS X to Ubuntu Linux, we were not sure going into this which one would emerge as the leader. After looking at these results from the Phoronix Test Suite, it's almost a toss-up as to which operating system is faster."

Shankland speculates on the timeframe for profitability for Canonical

"As the opening keynote at the Linux Plumbers Conference, Greg Kroah-Hartman delivered a talk entitled 'The Linux Ecosystem, where do you fit in it?' There were, let’s say, a few elements of it which I found objectionable."

interesting interview with Whitehurst on a number of levels

can't hurt, in my opinion

congrats to Neil on the new gig. should be interesting work, not that the folks at Opened Hand aren't doing that as well.

"Even though I'm among those who prefer KDE overall" - interesting. i hadn't known that.

you can always argue with lists like these, but this is definitely worth a read. worth noting that three of the mentioned projects - MySQL, Ubuntu, and WordPress, underpin our business. and that the latter two are clients of ours.

it's been apparent to me that communities have the capacity to generate far more comprehensive and detailed documentation than commercial firms. no guarantees, of course, but generally true. what will be interesting will be the commercialization.

absolute comedy. but Mac OS and the Sox? say it ain't so.

count me as very interested in this

"We have declined to discuss any agreement with Microsoft under the threat of unspecified patent infringements." - just what i expected Ubuntu's position would be

good news for the Sun folks, and i know a couple of Ubuntu folks that'll be pleased

very solid win for the Ubuntu folks

a critique of Canonical's Launchpad

the inclusion process described

wherein Mark clarifies his recent post and email missive courting OpenSuSE developers

Luis is speaking for a lot of people here; great points, and i'll hopefully have some follow up as well soon

good news; our V20z / Ubuntu combo has gone swimmingly, but this can't hurt

a Canonical dev's thoughts on Debian about a year post exit

wherein a *security guard* knows Linux via both Canonical and Ubuntu; i'll say it again - Ubuntu is one of the better things to happen to Linux in a while

i was wondering why Jono hadn't commented on this; answer - he hasn't started at Canonical yet ;) - interesting post worth a read

wow - big news from Senor Waugh, and while i'm sure Ubuntu will keep trucking along, it's a loss; can't wait to see what he's up to next. if you read this Jeff, would love to chat - off the record, of course ;)

i've already posted on this, so it shouldn't be any surprise to learn that i believe they can

an older piece on Oracle's Linux plans; some additional commentary on Debian