Rethinking Gobuntu | Linux Today

Rethinking Gobuntu

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MS
Mark Shuttleworth
Apr 18, 2008

“The ‘current and future’ thread on this list has got me
thinking. Perhaps we really are on the wrong track, that the only
way to meet the needs of the gNewSense folks is to have completely
different source packages to Ubuntu. If that is the case, then I
think it would be better to channel the energy from Gobuntu into
gNewSense.

“I had hoped to see more participation and collaboration around
Gobuntu because of the benefits of keeping up with the standard
Ubuntu (regular releases, security updates etc)…”


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Mark Shuttleworth

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