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CNET Networks UK award winner: Mark Shuttleworth
News The winner of IT Community Hero of the Year at the 2008 CNET Networks UK Business Technology Awards was Mark Shuttleworth, founder of the Ubuntu Foundation. Mark Shuttleworth is the bridge between open source's activist heart and the needs of users...
[September 24, 2008, 7:40]
Wikipedia, Ubuntu founders back 'open education'
News Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales and Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth are backing a scheme to make publicly funded education materials freely available on the internet. The scheme is the result of a meeting of 30 open-education leaders in Cape Town, organised by...
[January 22, 2008, 16:39]
Canonical joins Linux Foundation
News Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth has been a member of the Linux Foundation board since early 2007. However, Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth being on the Linux Foundation board may prompt Red Hat to raise its profile within the Linux...
[August 19, 2008, 12:35]
Ubuntu goes after the Lynx effect
News Ubuntu patron and founder Mark Shuttleworth has detailed plans for the distribution's April 2010 release, code-named Lucid Lynx. In a video message to attendees of UbuCon Atlanta, Shuttleworth said that 10.04 would be based on the Gnome 2.0 desktop...
[September 21, 2009, 9:00]
Shuttleworth defends Firefox licence in Ubuntu
News Mark Shuttleworth, whose company, Canonical, funds the Ubuntu operating system, has stepped in to try to resolve a dispute on Ubuntu developer's forum Launchpad. Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical's chief executive, wrote back to say that Mozilla...
[September 15, 2008, 16:22]
Ubuntu development hits founder in the pocket
News Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth has admitted that he spends a significant sum of his own money developing the Linux distribution. Shuttleworth added that he is unconcerned about the cost, as Linux helped him make his money.
[May 9, 2006, 16:40]
Shuttleworth: Open-source desktops need a facelift
News The company plans to sign up designers and specialists in user experience and interaction to lead Canonical's work on usability and to contribute to other free and open-source desktop-environment projects, including Gnome and KDE, Mark...
[September 11, 2008, 16:23]
Microsoft: Africa doesn't need free software
Talkback Viva Mark Shuttleworth and Ubuntu Linux! To this stupid declaration I just say:
[October 21, 2005, 13:21]
Ubuntu details plans for 'Jaunty Jackalope'
News Jaunty] will be the focus of our efforts from November through to April next year," wrote the project's founder and patron Mark Shuttleworth in an email to developers this morning. Shuttleworth said Ubuntu 9.04 would focus on improving boot time...
[September 9, 2008, 9:21]
'Intrepid Ibex' Ubuntu to focus on mobile web access
News Canonical chief executive Mark Shuttleworth has revealed the name of the version of Ubuntu, due in October: "Intrepid Ibex". Version 8.10 of Ubuntu, Intrepid Ibex, will focus on user accessibility, wrote Shuttleworth in an email announcement.
[February 21, 2008, 11:59]
Shuttleworth: Amazon will win cloud battle
News Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, or a new platform closely modelled on it, will emerge as the leading cloud standard, Canonical chief Mark Shuttleworth has predicted. Mark Shuttleworth told delegates at a BT event that Amazon's EC2 will continue to...
[October 5, 2009, 17:17]
Mandriva fires Adam Williamson
Blog Comment Adam Williamson's supporters speak of how highly visible he was as a Mandriva roadie, yet those supporters turn a blind eye to Williamson's very petty and public spit at Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth.
[December 10, 2008, 21:30]
Ubuntu creator wants to squash 'upstream' bugs
News The founder of the Ubuntu open-source operating system, Mark Shuttleworth, has called for Ubuntu developers to fix all software flaws found in the operating system, including, crucially, those in inherited source code.
[June 30, 2008, 16:20]
Ubuntu update hit by six-week delay
News New versions of Ubuntu Linux have been released at a steady six-month intervals, but project founder Mark Shuttleworth is considering a six-week delay to improve the reliability of an important new version.
[March 14, 2006, 9:05]
Ubuntu 'Intrepid Ibex' due on Thursday
News Canonical will release the newest version of its Ubuntu version of Linux on Thursday, chief executive Mark Shuttleworth said on Monday; but the company's profitability isn't on such a fast track. Shuttleworth, who got rich by selling his last start...
[October 28, 2008, 7:57]
Ubuntu coming soon to Sun's Niagara
News Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (long-term support) will feature support for the T1000 and T2000 servers, which use the UltraSparc T1 processor formerly known as Niagara, said Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical.
[May 30, 2006, 8:50]
Ubuntu's latest Linux will help debug crashes
News Feisty Fawn, also known as version 7.04, comes with software that can send debugging information to help programmers track down the problems that cause applications to crash, Canonical chief executive Mark Shuttleworth said in an interview.
[April 12, 2007, 8:38]
Ubuntu backer seeks open-source collaboration
News Canonical chief executive Mark Shuttleworth believes broader use could help marshal free and open-source software forces more effectively against Microsoft. Microsoft has an efficient core infrastructure that allows developers from one part of the...
[April 10, 2007, 12:00]
Ubuntu gets more virtualisation-friendly
News Both have landed very nicely in this release," said Canonical chief executive Mark Shuttleworth. The Gibbon variant will take an "ultra-orthodox view of licensing: no firmware, drivers, imagery, sounds, applications, or other content which do not...
[April 16, 2007, 15:36]
XP Starter Edition reaches Africa
News But Mark Shuttleworth, a South African open source advocate and the founder of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, told ZDNet UK on Thursday that Microsoft is still playing catch-up with the achievements of open source.
[May 5, 2006, 12:15]
