Tag: mark shuttleworth
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Mark Shuttleworth talks 16.04 LTS, Snaps & Charms
Last week I flew out to sunny California to participate in SCaLE 14x and the UbuCon summit. As the name implies this was the 14th annual SCaLE (Southern California Linux Expo) and, as always, it didn’t disappoint. Within SCaLE was the UbuCon summit which focused on what’s going on within the Ubuntu community and how to better the community. While…
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Shuttleworth raves about Dell XPS13 developer edition
At the OpenStack summit last month we caught up with Ubuntu and Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth. Below is a quick snippet taken from our chat with Mark where he talks about the Dell XPS 13 developer edition aka Project Sputnik. Mark dubs the system “freakin’ awesome” and the “environment of choice for anyone doing web…
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OSCON: Tim O’Reilly chats with Mark Shuttleworth
Here’s the last of my posts from OSCON. The conversation below took place right after Mark Shuttleworth’s keynote. Tim and Mark start off by talking about Mark’s persistence of vision and what keeps driving him. At the 2:00 minute mark they talk about Project Sputnik, the buzz around it at OSCON and where it has…
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OSCON: Mark Shuttleworth’s keynote
On the Thursday at OSCON, Ubuntu and Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth gave a great keynote entitled, “Making Magic From Cloud To Client.” He did the entire keynote and live demo on a project Sputnik laptop (a Dell XPS13 running Ubuntu 12.04LTS)! Here it is in its entirety: Some of the ground Mark covers: A fantastic…
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Introducing Project Sputnik: Developer laptop
-> Update 2/18/2013: Sputnik 2 is here: Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition goes 1080p and lands in Europe -> Update 11/29/2012: Sputnik has landed! Introducing the Dell XPS 13 Laptop, Developer Edition Today I am very excited, I finally get to talk about project Sputnik! In a nutshell, drumroll please, here it is: Made possible by an internal…
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Mark Shuttleworth part two: Developers, DevOps & the Cloud
As I mentioned in my last entry, Mark Shuttleworth of Ubuntu fame stopped by Dell this morning on his way back from CES. Between meetings Mark and I did a couple of quick videos. Here is the second of the two. Whereas the first focused on the client, this one focuses on the Cloud and…
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Mark Shuttleworth part one: UbuntuTV
Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu Linux and Chairman of Canonical the commercial distribution behind Ubuntu, stopped by Dell for a bunch of meetings this morning. Mark was visiting Austin on his way back from CES in Las Vegas where he and the team just unveiled Ubuntu TV. I was able to grab a few minutes…
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Mark Shuttleworth on UEC and OpenStack
Mark Shuttleworth, the ever gracious founder of Ubuntu, stopped by Dell this morning to talk to various folks about various subjects. I was able to grab some time with him between meetings and get his thoughts on a few topics. I was particularly interested in getting his thoughts on Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) which will…
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Mark Shuttleworth on the Cloud, Ubuntu on Dell and more
Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and the head of Canonical, the commercial entity behind the popular linux distribution, is currently making his rounds in the States. Yesterday he was quite busy, taking the stage at both the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco as well as at LinuxCon up in Portland Oregon. Today he popped…
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Mark Shuttleworth dicusses the Cloud and Ubuntu
Last month Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu Linux, CEO of Cannonical Ltd and First African in Space, announced that Ubuntu was going to be making a big push into cloud computing with their release slated for October. This will add to early cloud support that’s debuting in next month’s release, Ubuntu 9.04. (BTW, For a…