Shuttleworth's challenge to the Linux community: Facelift!
markshuttleworth.com — We are hiring designers, user experience champions and interaction design visionaries and challenging them to lead not only Canonical’s distinctive projects but also to participate in GNOME, KDE and other upstream efforts to improve FLOSS usability. (Submitted by bianconeri4ever) More...
Mark Shuttleworth on Netbooks pre-loaded with Ubuntu
markshuttleworth.com — Mart Shuttleworth discusses Canonical's new Ubuntu Netbook Remix: goals, design decisions, license, project status, relations to OEM's and... "We’re also working with two companies that want more radical user interface innovation." (Submitted by Vinvin) More...
Mark Shuttleworth on Wubi
markshuttleworth.com — "Windows is a very important platform, and our justifiable pride in Linux and the GNU stack shouldn’t blind us to the importance of delivering software that is widely useful. I believe in bringing free software to people in a way that is exciting and empowering to them, and one of the key ways to do that is to show them amazing free software". (Submitted by Vinvin) More...
Things you can do to support single unified ISO document format standard
markshuttleworth.com — M. Shuttleworth: "There are very encouraging signs that the world’s standards bodies will vote in favor of a single unified ISO document format standard.(...) It’s very important that we build on those brave decisions and call on all of our national standards committees, to support the idea of a single common standard for these critical documents." (Submitted by ludwik) More...
Mark Shuttleworth: "Willing to buy a high-end, free-software-only laptop?"
markshuttleworth.com — 'With projects like Gobuntu and gNewSense aiming to provide a platform that is zealous about free software, the obvious question is “where can I run it?”. And right now, as far as laptops go, there are no good answers. Pretty much any laptop you can buy today needs some sort of non-free bits to make the most of its hardware...' (Submitted by Vinvin) More...
Ubuntu: No negotiations with Microsoft in progress
markshuttleworth.com — There’s a rumour circulating that Ubuntu is in discussions with Microsoft aimed at an agreement along the lines they have concluded recently with Linspire, Xandros, Novell etc. (...) For the record, let me state our position: We have declined to discuss any agreement with Microsoft under the threat of unspecified patent infringements. (Submitted by ludwik) More...
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