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[YT] Interview with Mark Shuttleworth, creator of Ubuntu

The interview is in english

TIL

  • Mark was a Debian contributor
  • His goal was to make Linux succeed like Dropbox and Netflix
  • He acknowledges how ChromeOS and Android (both newer than Ubuntu afaik) shaped the Linux Desktop
  • ChromeOS uses upstart, the init system that Canonical created
  • Canonical is smaller than SUSE
  • Mark considers Ubuntu to be more open than Fedora because they have flatpak in their repos (well, Snaps arent sandboxed outside of Apparmor, so that just makes sense I guess?)
  • Ubuntu kept in contact with GNOME while switching to Unity, so they could easily fall back
  • Microsofted lured in Linux devs with money, to make licensed software
  • The cloud department in Microsoft was pretty progressive, using Linux anyways
  • Azurelinux is a competitor against Ubuntu
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