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Shuttleworth To Step Down As Canonical CEO In 2010
LinuxScribe writes "In a blog announcement today, Canonical Founder and CEO Mark Shuttleworth revealed he will be stepping down from his CEO role to be replaced by current COO Jane Silber. Both execs do not see major strategic changes on the horizon. Silber's official blog and Linux.com each have more details on how the change will be implemented."
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No sig for the moment.
Why a Debian logo instead of the Ubuntu logo?
An operating system should be like a light switch... simple, effective, easy to use, and designed for everyone.
Self Appointed Distator For Life? SADU2010?
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And all this time I thought that the "canonical" executive for any open-source project was "Ty Coon, President of Vice".
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
From the article he is not leaving the project (as the Summary sort of implies). He is switching his focus to product design, partnerships and customers.
"Maybe this world is another planet's hell"
Aldous Huxley
Mark for making possible a linux distro usable, friendly, and gather mainstream and users around the world, but i wonder if the poor quality of the late ubuntu incarnations(karmic, jaunty and that PulseAudio affair, i'm looking at you!) was something Mark was responsible(of some sorts), or at least, know of it, and i'm saying this as a former Ubuntu lover, i just loved and liked to polish, tune and debug to some extents some issues with this distro, but the adittion of that PulseAudio and the almost impossible task of remove it for the system make me switch, now i'm a OpenSuse user and i liked, now i can listen to amarok and youtube videos at the same time without the need to kill -9 some of them.
Again, thank you very much Mark for the past 3 years and i hope your new roles make this great distro return to his old quality.
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Slashdot ya no es que lo era!
Famous last words we have all heard before.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
...which is all good and great, because he cares about end users - which matters most for Ubuntu Linux to succeed.
user@ubuntubox:~$ stfu This server is going down for shutdown NOW!
Jane is a guy's name in South Africa?
Will this event be labeled a "COO d'état" ?
Oww, ouch, OWW, stop the beating!
Shuttleworth has been losing money nonstop on Ubuntu. This change in CEO won't stop that.
How good is Jane Silber at throwing chairs?
And this just after I read on Slashdot that there are too many men in IT! Mark this one as "one down"!
Shuttleworth is one of the biggest problems with Ubuntu. His focus on "usability" has left the OS in complete disarray; while the developers are busy fixing 100 little papercuts they're shipping a release with broken DNS resolving. What is less user-friendly: a poorly labeled checkbox in the installation screen or "breaking the internet"? Canonical and Ubuntu were good in the beginning, they righted the wrongs of Debian, brought Linux closer to the desktop and then threw all that away with some really bad decisions (update notifier popup, software update policy, shipping releases with very serious bugs). Hopefully with someone new in charge Ubuntu can try and become what it used to be, given that Shuttleworth's hubris seems to be the most major bug in Ubuntu at the moment.
that shipping an LTS (Long Term Support) release doesn't mean "This release is just as buggy as all of the other releases were when they shipped, but we'll be updating security issues for longer". :) Don't get me wrong, I 3 Ubuntu more than most people, but this is just something that always irked me (especially since I run multiple production terminal server environments with Ubuntu LTS & LTSP)
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
No.
here is the schedule: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucidReleaseSchedule
and from a link on that page, here is the details of the LTS release: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS
So yes, your wish is granted, but it had nothing to do with Jane becoming the CEO. The LTS will import from Debian testing rather than unstable, and there will be two beta cycles. I suspect that all the Ubuntu specific projects were actually released in Karmic, even though they may not have been ready. That way, they will be sure to be ready for Lucid.
I heard that Karmic was a bit of a testing release, so this LTS will kinda be like Karmic Stable. (I don't mean to imply anything, good or bad, with that)
I met Mark once, he is a wonderful down to Earth man. He knows what he is doing, he has been in space for crying out loud.
Dear Jane,
Will it still be an ugly Brown?
Thanks,
rhY
I hold very few opinions. I hold information based on observation and fact. If you wish to disagree, please use facts.
Your Goatse link fails. Next time, try http://goatse.fr/
i am always confused by people arguing about this sort of thing.
i mean what exactly are you trying to say, and why are you saying it? who cares what you do on your computer? why do you care what they do on their computer?
me, i use my computer for porn. ubuntu is the best open source porn platform there is. and since i don't have any money, im not getting a mac or windows.
[...] struck by how crappy our fave OS is once it gets dumbed down with automatic everything. Perhaps it's unavoidable.
I think it's perfectly avoidable, except in practice ;)
Why does it happen? Priorities.
Ubuntu* wants to be "Just Works" for the most common usage scenarios. Debian** wants to be "Works well" for almost anything.
An emphasis on "Just Works" gives us Network Manager. It's easy to use; you just click on the essid label to connect to a wireless network, and it automatically does dhcp for you and all that nice stuff.
What it doesn't give you is the ability to say "connect to 'home-router' whenever you see it." You also can't say "Whenever you connect to 'work-wifi-net', run VPN client". This you can have from wpa_supplicant's roaming mode, but it means you have to hack /etc/network/interfaces and wpa_supplicant.conf.
But why? Because if "Just Works, easily" is your priority, you tend to not devote resources to making it work automatically with some extra fiddling in the corner cases, and instead devoting those resources towards making something else also "Just Work, easily" in the most common cases.
That's really the crucial issue, I think: priorities of goals determining the allocation of resources (mostly man hours), in Ubuntu's case away from making it "hacker"-friendly.
(*) and (**): It goes for other things than Ubuntu and Debian, I just use those as examples.
Look at gedit versus emacs; one is easy to learn to use, but limited in what it does. The other one does everything (and does it quite well IMNSHO), but takes a while to learn. One is focused on being easy to learn to use, the other on being easy to use effectively(!).
(Aside: I'm dead serious when I claim that having go-one-line-{up,down} bound to only the arrow keys makes you edit text slower, because you have to move your hands away from the letter keys to navigate. Emacs and vim both do the effective thing, at least if you put escape on caps lock, but it takes effort to discover.)
Also, technical people tend to want their computers to work exactly the right way. Most people will settle for "gets the job done" if it means they don't have to spend time learning how the "magic box" works. (not meant in a condescending way. A good friend of mine, avid gamer, calls technology he doesn't understand "magic" in a ha-ha-only-serious way.)
Please stop confusing the two. Debian is the pristine source, Ubuntu is the bastard child.