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Calxeda and HP unleash ARM server tech

The EnergyCore ARM-based server processor — start-up Calxeda's attempt to get ARM's low-powered chips into enterprise servers — will appear in a server from HP Read more

1 November, 2011 by Jack Clark

Ubuntu to open up to Qt toolkit

...could come preloaded with Qt applications based on the framework, according to Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical and the Ubuntu Project. Shuttleworth announced the decision... Read more

19 January, 2011 by Ben Woods

Ubuntu desktop drops Gnome UI for Unity

...Ubuntu 11.04 and future desktop releases will use Unity as standard, Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, said during a keynote speech at the Ubuntu... Read more

26 October, 2010 by Ben Woods

Shuttleworth hints at Ubuntu's future with latest name

...Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth has revealed the name for the next-but-one version of... Read more

19 August, 2010 by David Meyer

Ubuntu gets a facelift with Precise Pangolin 12.04

...search tool, the Head-Up Display (HUD), described by Ubuntu Project founder Mark Shuttleworth as "the future of the menu". The 12.04 long-term... Read more

26 April, 2012 by Jack Clark

Linux Minterface

Mark Shuttleworth of Canonical has announced Ubuntu's new Heads Up Display, catchily... Read more

30 January, 2012

Ubuntu HUD Intenterface? Sublime already there!

Mark Shuttleworth's recent post about the planned Ubuntu Heads Up Display has... Read more

27 January, 2012

Ubuntu Linux Everywhere

Otherwise known as The Convergence of Everything Mark Shuttleworth, famed trailblazer for Ubuntu Linux and head cheese at Canonical, has... Read more

30 November, 2011

Ubuntu aiming for phones and tablets, says Shuttleworth

Mark Shuttleworth, the multi-millionaire space tourist who bankrolls the Ubuntu effort to... Read more

31 October, 2011

Ubuntu 11.10 code-named Oneiric Ocelot

The founder of the Ubuntu project Mark Shuttleworth has announced that the next version of the Linux-based Ubuntu... Read more

7 March, 2011

Ubuntu linux font released into the wild

...As has been noted elsewhere in the mighty ZDNet empire, Mark Shuttleworth has announced a new Ubuntu font, designed by Dalton Maag. Anybody... Read more

4 October, 2010

Ubuntu to bring multitouch features to Linux

...of the major missing points for Linux in the PC ecosystem," said Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, the company that develops and supports Ubuntu. But... Read more

17 August, 2010 by Stephen Shankland
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin)

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin)

...a number of cosmetic tweaks plus a new sound theme. Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth's plan is to migrate Ubuntu from the 2D X Window... Read more

26 April, 2012 by Terry Relph-Knight
A tale of two distros: Ubuntu and Linux Mint

A tale of two distros: Ubuntu and Linux Mint

...of interest in Mint. Distribution pedigree Back in 2004, South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth gathered a group of developers with the idea of releasing a... Read more

10 February, 2012 by Terry Relph-Knight

Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) and other shells

...gave users a choice of selecting the GNOME 2 UI at startup. Mark Shuttleworth had said, in the run-up to 11.10, that in... Read more

21 November, 2011

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