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Mark Shuttleworth Talks New Icon Theme, Criticisms, GNOME-Shell & Ubuntu on TVs, Phones…

Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth holds a 1 hour Q&A session following each release of Ubuntu.

And today was the first chance many have had to ask Mark questions about upcoming changes, plans and more following the release of Ubuntu 11.10.

The most interesting questions asked during the session are presented inside…

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Ubuntu Developer Summit Interview Videos Go Online

With so many Ubuntu folk in attendance at last weeks UDS Ubuntu’s Amber Graner made sure she grabbed some prime interview time with many of Ubuntu’s important figures.

Head on in for video interviews with Mark Shuttleworth, Jason Warner, and many more.

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Ubuntu Developer Summit Kicks Off

The bi-annual Ubuntu Developer Summit has kicked off in Florida with a key-note address from Ubuntu’s founder Mark Shuttleworth.

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Mark Shuttleworth talks Windicators, changes for Unity in Oneiric, and whole lot more…

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For one hour in the week following the release of the latest Ubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth, the ‘founder’ of Ubuntu, holds a question and answer session as part of ‘Ubuntu Open Week’.

Below follows highlights from that session. Read on to find out what changes are coming to Unity next release, what happened to the much-heralded ‘Windicators’ and whether Mark prefers the iPhone or Android…

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Ubuntu to become a rolling release distro?

The register are reporting that Mark Shuttleworth has hinted that the development cycle for Ubuntu releases could become a lot quicker than 6 months…

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Mark Shuttleworth talks Unity at DebConf 10

Mark Shuttleworth talks about Unity, the new shell for Ubuntu Netbook Edition at DebConf 10 which took place earlier this month in New York City. In the video Mark covers the main aspects of Unity, major changes to the desktop such as indicator applets, app-menu using dbus and the idea behind the design and layout [...]

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Mark Shuttleworth apologises for alleged sexist comment

Mark Shuttleworth has apologised “unreservedly to all offended” for his “poor choice of language” during LinuxCon 2009 during which a comment made by the Ubuntu founder was deemed to be sexist by many members of the Linux community The redress, given in the comment section of his blog, states: – “I apologize unreservedly to all [...]

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Mark Shuttleworth: No GNOME-Shell in Maverick

Every Ubuntu release is followed by Ubuntu Open Week during which Mark Shuttleworth holds a Q&A session where users can ask him pretty much anything. A condensed selection of highlights follow. Maverick will not be coming with the GNOME Shell interface by default but will be available to download via the repos. RGBA transparency will [...]

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Mark Speaks; New Artwork For Lucid, Awesome Messaging Applet Improvements Coming, View On ChromeOS, More!

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Lucid, Lucid, Lucid. It’s the only word on Ubuntu-fervents lips these days! As part of the post-Koala release, Mark Shuttleworth held his usual Q&A session in an IRC in somewhere land and spilt all sorts of awesome beans – from artwork planned to his views on ChromeOS! I’ve fished around the entire session, pulled out [...]

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