Ubuntu, the popular Linux distribution, like all Linux and open-source projects, has had its share of internal battles over the project’s directions over the years. Recently, though, Mark Shuttleworth, founder of both the operating system and its sponsoring company, Canonical, has taken the latest squabbles public in his blog.

Responding to ongoing discussions and speculation about the future for Ubuntu’s release cadence, Canonical Founder Mark Shuttleworth published a blog post today, detailing his thoughts on the issue. Shuttleworth, who holds the position of “Self-Appointed Benevolent Dictator for Life” of the Ubuntu project, has in the past publicly stated his opinion on cadence and the [...]

Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth, the person with the greatest influence on the Ubuntu project, has taken to his personal blog to respond to some of the concerns arising from the changes, and while he addresses most of them with sensitivity and diplomacy, he leaves no doubt about his feelings for those who consider Linux an [...]

Canonical has stated that carriers haven’t expressed any interest in recreating a fragmentation of Android in terms of the company’s upcoming Ubuntu mobile operating system. The firm’s founder and CEO, Mark Shuttleworth, stated that Ubuntu smartphones would be launching during October 2013. However, he clarified that although a mobile version of the operating system (Ubuntu [...]

ZDNet met with Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, at Mobile World Congress to talk about Ubuntu across tablets, smartphones and more.

The convergence of devices and software platforms is being driven by the shift towards cloud computing, which will ultimately become the engine room of all modern applications, according to Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth.

Mark Shuttleworth addressed many topics, including how Ubuntu for tablets and phones will differ from Windows 8, Canonical’s discussions with hardware makers and carriers, potential release timelines for phones and tablets, whether Ubuntu devices will be “hackable,” and the chances of Canonical finally becoming profitable.

The first Ubuntu phones will be sold to customers in October of this year, Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth reportedly told the Wall Street Journal. This timeline would be slightly ambitious compared to Canonical’s previous statements. When unveiling Ubuntu for phones last month, Shuttleworth said he was aiming to get a phone out in the last [...]

Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu, has shared his plans for 2013. It was clear from the Nexus 7 initiative that Ubuntu is eventually looking into the mobile space more seriously. Google created the cheap device Ubuntu was looking for wider testing and development.

“The really interesting opportunity is to unify all of these different kinds of computing,” Shuttleworth said in a Q&A with Slashdot readers published today. “Let’s make one OS that runs on the phone AND on your supercomputer. We’re close to that now—we know Ubuntu makes a great cloud OS and a great server OS and [...]

I realized this morning that this week marks two years since Mark Shuttleworth shared his plans for Ubuntu’s Unity to run on Wayland. Even after two years, Ubuntu’s engagement with Wayland hasn’t advanced much and it’s consummation of Wayland is still likely at a minimum another year out.

Over the years, it is noticeable that every time Mark Shuttleworth, the man who owns Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, introduces some feature that is calculated to bring in some income, there is a mighty hue and cry. Then the Ubuntu people try to explain it away and finally there is a half-arsed compromise which [...]

Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth announced a new development approach for the upcoming Ubuntu 13.04, which has been officially named “Raring Ringtail.”

Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical and its popular Linux distribution Ubuntu, announced in his blog that they’ll be working on some new features behind closed doors for the next release.

Noting that Cisco and HP are running CloudStack-enabled Ubuntu Linux on their cloud platforms, Ubuntu and Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth said today at OpenStack Summit that Ubuntu 12.10 with the latest incarnation of OpenStack called ‘Folsom” is now available and that the “‘Folsom” upgrade path for Ubuntu 12.04 is also ready

You’d think someone had just kicked some Ubuntu Linux fans’ puppy. Canonical, Ubuntu’s parent company, has added Amazon search results to the upcoming Ubuntu 12.10 Unity Dash search function. Some users hate this and have declared Ubuntu to be adware. Mark Shuttleworth, Ubuntu’s founder, has replied that this response is FUD. Here’s what’s really happening.

One of Linux’s most popular distros, Ubuntu, will be getting some new UI and web integration with its latest version, Ubuntu 12.10. In a recent presentation at Oscon 2012, founder Mark Shuttleworth said that Linux now comes pre-installed on five percent of PCs globally.

One of the planned highlights for this year’s LinuxCon Europe 2012 is a panel discussion between Linus Torvalds and Intel’s Chief of Linux and Open Source Technologies, Dirk Hohndel, on the latest technical advancements in the kernel. The event is to be held from 5 to 7 November in Barcelona and will also feature a [...]

At Oscon 2012, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth defends the project’s decision to create the Unity interface for multiple form factors and said Dell’s decision to pre-install its latest Linux desktop on high end PCs in North America shows perception about Linux on the desktop is improving.

Windows 8 PCs and tablets will lock out all other operating systems by default, and trying to find a way around it isn’t easy as both Fedora and Ubuntu developers have discovered. Mark Shuttleworth, Ubuntu’s founder, shares his thoughts on what Linux should do next about Windows 8’s UEFI lock-in.

Ten years ago, just ahead of a trip into space, Mark Shuttleworth took out an insurance policy on his reproductive future. “I put a couple swimmers on ice,” he says. “There was going to be a gamma ray source about a foot from my balls under my seat on the Soyuz. So I made a [...]

Free of charge, free of viruses and designed to outpace its rivals on low-end systems – Ubuntu has some obvious advantages.

Also with an eye to the future, Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth on Tuesday spent an hour answering questions about what else is coming down the pike for Ubuntu in version 12.10 and beyond. As part of Ubuntu Open Week this week, Shuttleworth’s “Ask Mark” session offered a compelling glimpse at what’s to come.

Canonical’s Ubuntu Linux distribution is making a big push into the enterprise and cloud, where it will go head to head with long-time enterprise Linux incumbent Red Hat and its Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distribution. However Shuttleworth is not sure that Red Hat’s pricing structure will make the firm competitive.

Shuttleworth continued, “It’s absolutely true we have no interest in the core fundamentals of the Linux kernel, none whatsoever. The Linux kernel was flying before Ubuntu was founded, what was missing at the time was the commitment to the end user experience, the quality of the whole integration that Ubuntu essentially brought. I don’t think [...]

In less than two weeks, the latest version of Canonical’s Ubuntu Linux distribution, Ubuntu 12.04, Precise Pangolin, will be released. This new Ubuntu is looking good. How good? In a recent interview with Julie Bort, Canonical and Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth said, “We expect to ship close to 20 million PCs in the next year.”

Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth says … so what? He’s got big plans for Canonical and he’s trying to solve a bigger problem: can an open source company make money if it always gives its software away for free and only charges for other stuff?

In an e-mail, Shuttleworth explained to me that, “Stabilizing and maintaining the kernel is very important to Ubuntu. We have 25 or more kernel engineers at Canonical, focused on device enablement from ARM through to Xeon, and QA [Quality Assurance]. Our focus is on the user experience, making things ‘Just Work,’ and quality.

Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth wrote a blog post today pointing out that the popular Linux distribution has seen an increase in enterprise server adoption over the past year. He published a graph which indicates that Ubuntu deployments have surpassed those of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) among the top one million most popular websites.

Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth has found some encouraging statistics on Ubuntu adoption for public-facing Web sites powered by Ubuntu. Unfortunately, Shuttleworth has taken a single data point and tried to suggest that it’s an indicator that companies are choosing Ubuntu over Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) for “enterprise computing.”