“I am delighted that Windows 7 is out,” Shuttleworth said. “Now that Windows 7 is out, we can compete head to head.” With no hint of sarcasm at all, Shuttleworth said that Windows 7 was a “credible release, even on netbooks”

Yesterday Canonical’s Mark Shuttleworth held a phone conference to talk about the state of Ubuntu. It’s clearly become more than just “Linux for human beings”. But it’s getting harder to avoid thinking of Canonical as a black box, and that hurts.

On Tuesday afternoon I spoke with Ivanka Majic, leader of Canonical’s design team for Ubuntu Desktop and Netbook Remix. She’s spearheading the effort to make Ubuntu that much more appealing and useful

Sees good possibility of having a common meta-release cycle with Debian – Not sure if GNOME3 will make the next LTS

Here’s an interview with Jono Bacon, the Ubuntu Community Manager who also leads a small team at Canonical to grow and enable the Ubuntu community.

Mark is the dotcom millionaire founder of Canonical, first patron of KDE and the self-appointed benevolent dictator for life (BDFL) of Ubuntu. Linux Format magazine risked being crushed by his (rumoured) hordes of robotic minions to ask him a few questions.

Ubuntu creator Mark Shuttleworth is itching for a clean fight with Microsoft on netbooks. Shuttleworth once told The Reg he can’t wait for Windows 7 on this sub-laptop class of machines because it’ll finally give Ubuntu the opportunity to compete fairly against Microsoft’s operating system in this emerging market.

Apple may have Steve Jobs, Microsoft Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, but we Ubuntu-ers have our own awesome over-lord in the form of Canonical head and Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth. He even dubs himself “Self Appointed Benevolent Dictator for Life”.

Mark Shuttleworth says he’s pleased with “Jaunty Jackalope” but is really excited about how his operating system has become a catalyst for IT services and other market changes.

Earlier today I spoke with Simon Wardley of Canonical (the commercial organisation that sells support and consultancy for Ubuntu) to hear a little more about what those downloading Ubuntu will get… and what it might mean for the rapidly shifting Cloud landscape.

Last summer, Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of the Ubuntu distribution and of Canonical, Ubuntu’s commercial sponsor, challenged the free and open source software (FOSS) to deliver a desktop experience superior to Apple’s.

Last summer, Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of the Ubuntu distribution and of Canonical, Ubuntu’s commercial sponsor, challenged the free and open source software (FOSS) to deliver a desktop experience superior to Apple’s.

This interview with Ubuntu Community Manager Jono Bacon is the first in the LQ Community Manager Interview Series. I’d like to thank Jono for taking the time to do this interview.

In this interview we talk with Agostino. In specific, we talk about: The history of Wubi, Providing a bridge for Windows users to try Linux easily,
Integrating Wubi into the Linux community and specifically Ubuntu, Making the OS install and later upgrade simple for users, Feedback from users and other Linux distributions

Daniel gave us an interview where he speaks about his own work, the Ubuntu Developer Week, Ubuntu 9.04, and relationship with Debian.