Ubuntu To Pay for Upgrades To the Free Software User Experience

jcatcw writes "Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols reports that Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical, is using his millions to improve the Linux user experience, hiring people to work on X, OpenGL, Gtk, Qt, GNOME and KDE. He had doubted that desktop Linux could ever equal the smooth, graceful integration of the Mac OS. Now, between the driving pace of open-source development, and Shuttleworth's millions, it might be happening. Why not? After all, Mac OS itself is based on FreeBSD. Desktop Linux's future is starting to look brighter."

Comments

Re:Interesting.

[larry bagina]

Audacity runs on macs. I tried it when I needed to extract the audio from a quicktime movie [Quicktime pro can do that, but I didn't want to pay the money]. Total failure. Garage Band was able to do it, though. Back on topic, I suspect Garage Band would have worked for splitting up the file.

Re:Stop saying that Mac OS is based on FreeBSD.

[exley]

STFU noob