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Ubuntu’s Mark Shuttleworth on shaking up system software

The operating system claims 20 million people use it a day. Not an insignificant number, but still a drop in the ocean compared to Microsoft’s Windows or Apple’s OS X.

Even so, lead designer and one-time astronaut Mark Shuttleworth hopes that last week’s major upgrade to the Linux-based project will produce an outsized splash and increase the size of its somewhat divergent customer-base.

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