Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Shuttleworth Answers Ubuntu Linux's Critics

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the what's-in-a-name dept.

climenole writes "Technomancer wrote: 'Mark Shuttleworth, Ubuntu Linux's founder, maintains that he and Ubuntu are doing right by the Linux community and the even larger open-source community. In recent weeks, Ubuntu has been criticized for not giving Linux enough support. Specifically, the complains have been that Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, doesn't do enough for producing Linux source code.'"

1 of 382 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Proper link by larry+bagina · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    There's only one linux kernel. At the time, there were no free kernels -- HURD was (and is) vaporware and BSD was mired in legal confusion. Ubuntu is yet another distro. been there, done that.

    Consider: You have 1 car and it gets stolen vs you have 10 cars and 1 gets stolen.

    --
    Do you even lift?

    These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.