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Mark Shuttleworth: "When I laid out the goal of "delivering a user experience that can compete with Apple in two years" at OSCON, I had many questions afterwards about how on earth we could achieve that."

Midgard follows Ubuntu's synchronized release schedule, and releases packages for that platform, but otherwise we have little to do with the distribution.

Less than two weeks after VMware Inc., the proprietary virtualization software leader, signed up for membership in the Linux Foundation, Canonical Ltd., the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu open source software, joined as well.

The Open Road: "The more I talk with Mark, the more I think he's a very, very smart person. He recognizes that Ubuntu needs to be more appealing on the desktop than the Mac to generate user adoption, but that's not really where his attention is focused, so far as I can tell.

He's thinking bigger than desktop bits."

The VAR Guy: "Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical and Ubuntu, delivered the keynote address at OSCON this evening.

Here’s a recap of his presentation, which explored how free software can drive innovation — and how the Linux desktop has to become a piece of art that leapfrogs Apple within two years."

The other night I was having dinner with a bunch of folks, and I think it was Jacob Kaplan-Moss (Django dude and Postgres user) who noted that the Postgres community's governance model was this crazy mix of distributed peer-to-peer style chaos, that on it's surface wouldn't seem functional, but somehow seems to work really well for our project (my paraphrazation).

It's hard to argue.

InformationWeek: "What do you think about this whole popular perception that Ubuntu is Linux?

"Mark Shuttleworth: It's actually an offensive idea to me.

We take the view that distributions should be humble in what they claim they do. The reality is that we distribute Linux, and we're at our best when we do that particular thing efficiently -- when we most effectively celebrate the work of others."

The VAR Guy: "Canonical CEO and Ubuntu Linux backer Mark Shuttleworth will step into the spotlight July 22, when he keynotes OSCON (Open Source Convention) in Portland, Oregon.

It will be a critical moment for Shuttleworth and the Ubuntu movement. Here’s why."

Linux Magazine spends some time with the man who made Ubuntu, arguably the most popular desktop Linux distribution, possible.

Kristin Shoemaker finds out what makes Mark tick, and what's going on with the Shuttleworth Foundation.

In 1999, the South African-born Mark Shuttleworth sold his internet company, Thawte, which provided digital certificates for websites, for more than $500m (£254m).

After spending $20m on a trip into space, he started the Ubuntu project - named after an African word meaning "Humanity to others", or "I am what I am because of who we all are" - which has since become the most popular GNU/Linux distribution.