Ubuntu Founder Plans to Rival Macintosh with Linux Desktop (Palluxo.com) [LWN.net]

Palluxo.com covers an OSCON talk by Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth. "Mark Richard Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical Ltd and a founder of Ubuntu Foundation, spoke at the OReilly Open Source Convention earlier this week. He announced plans to compete with Apple and talked about development of the Linux desktop (Ubuntu OS), as well as the integration of Linux into mobile development. He sees Linux and Windows linked up together., Linux is the platform of the future. But I think its essential that we learn how to work with Windows."

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Ubuntu Founder Plans to Rival Macintosh with Linux Desktop (Palluxo.com)

Posted Aug 4, 2008 11:03 UTC (Mon) by shane (subscriber, #3335) [Link]

I know I am a bit biased in favor of Linux, but I moved from OS X to Ubuntu on my MacBook Pro
laptop a few weeks ago. I have had a couple people ask me about it already, so I know I am not
the only one who finds OS X to be a less-than-ideal solution.

The solution now is almost perfect: all the laptop annoyances I experienced in the past with
other laptops are gone. Wireless works perfectly, suspend/resume works perfectly (better than
OS X which had failed to wake up a few times), and so on. Macs are expensive but their laptop
hardware is fabby.

Back to Linux after months as a frequent OS X. Whew!!! :)