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Shuttleworth: Next year 5 percent of the world’s PCs will ship with Ubuntu pre-installed #oscon

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Sean Michael Kerner
Jul 19, 2012

Back in 2008, I was at OSCON when Mark Shuttleworth set out the audacious goal to make the Linux desktop more beautiful than Apple.

Today, four years later, Shuttleworth returned to the OSCON stage to claim victory.
SMK

Sean Michael Kerner

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