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New Ubuntu Foundation Announced

Posted by Zonk on from the ubuntu-brings-best-wishes-for-everybody! dept.

AccUser writes "Mark Shuttleworth and Canonical Ltd, founders of the popular Ubuntu Linux-based operating system, have today announced the creation of The Ubuntu Foundation with an initial funding commitment of US$10m. From the article: 'The Ubuntu Foundation will employ core Ubuntu community members to ensure that Ubuntu will remain fully supported for an extended period of time, and continue to produce new releases of the distribution. As a first step, the Foundation announces that Ubuntu version 6.04, due for release in April 2006, will be supported for three years on the desktop and five years on the server.'"

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  1. It would be nice if they actually sent out CD's by IRNI · · Score: 0, Redundant

    They offer CD's on their site and say they will send out as many as you want. They seem to encourage you ordering lots since it costs the same to mail one as it does 20. I thought this was great. I could hand them out to people. Well I never got them. It has been months. I understand they might have some problems since it is a non-profit or whatever... but I guess I relied on their offer too much. Hopefully they are getting better.

  2. Upstream by datadriven · · Score: 1, Redundant

    If they send their security fixes upstream it may help debian.

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