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Linux.com: Ubuntu Developer Summit Report: Desktop Plans, PowerPC’s Future, and Community

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 20, 2006

“In this final report from the Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS),
held last week at Google’s offices in Mountain View, Calif., we’ll
look at plans for the Ubuntu and Kubuntu desktops, the future of
PowerPC, and how Ubuntu is working with local community teams.

“Today we live in a different world than the one Ubuntu was born
in. When the first version of Ubuntu was released, Apple was (as
far as anyone knew) still fully behind the PowerPC processors for
its hardware, and a number of users wanted Linux support for
PowerPC desktops…”

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Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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