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October 27, 2009, 8:23 am
October 27, 2009, 8:23 am
Yesterday Canonical’s Mark Shuttleworth held a phone conference to talk about the state of Ubuntu. It’s clearly become more than just “Linux for human beings”. But it’s getting harder to avoid thinking of Canonical as a black box, and that hurts.
Two things revealed during the call helped shape my apprehensions about this issue. The first was Shuttleworth’s description of Ubuntu as becoming an “end-to-end solution” — not just a desktop, but a desktop, a server, a cloud infrastructure, and so on. One wonders if this also means Ubuntu will become an architecture for mobile devices as well (or at least tie that much more closely with the various Linuxes used in same now)…
