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Shuttleworth To Step Down As Canonical CEO In 2010

Posted by timothy on from the orderly-transition dept.

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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  1. Not leaving the project by Meshach · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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  2. Re:Not using an Ubuntu logo? by MonsterTrimble · · Score: 3, Informative

    Because slashdot hasn't done a logo for them yet. It's only been 5 years after all...

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  3. Re:Thanks Mark by cptnapalm · · Score: 4, Informative

    Ubuntu works really well for what it is designed to do: be an easy to setup and use Linux system.

    I've got it on my desktop and laptop currently. On the laptop, I was going to go with FreeBSD, but it wouldn't install properly. I then tried to install Arch; it was a no go. Gentoo? Nope. Sabayon sounded interesting but unfortunately the installer crapped out. Ubuntu? After a simple, easy install, it works like a charm.

    There are annoyances, like having no luck getting wireless networking going strictly from a command line which I had no problem with on my late, lamented UltraSparc laptop with OpenBSD.

    But Ubuntu is the only one that would install without any problems.