Mark Shuttleworth: Ubuntu on the Desktop Will Remain Important to Canonical | Linux Today

Mark Shuttleworth: Ubuntu on the Desktop Will Remain Important to Canonical

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Marius Nestor
May 8, 2017

The Canonical and Ubuntu founder was interviewed there by theCUBE, who were very curious to know what is the state of Ubuntu Linux these days, now that Mark Shuttleworth shocked the Open Source community when he announced last month that development of the Unity interface is shut down, along with the convergence vision. Of course, Mark Shuttleworth answered that he’s dream was always for Ubuntu to go mainstream on desktop, cloud, and IoT, but things don’t always go the way we want them to. According to Shuttleworth, Ubuntu appears to be the de facto standard for cloud computing and data centers.

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Marius Nestor

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