Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and Canonical
The OpenStack Summit 2017 event kicked off today in Boston, and Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth was there to discuss the future of Ubuntu on PCs, cloud computing and IoT (Internet of Things).
The founder of Canonical and Ubuntu was interviewed by theCUBE, who were curious to know what situation the Ubuntu operating system is currently in, especially after it was announced last month that interface development Unity had been abandoned, along with Canonical's plans for the Ubuntu convergence.
Mark Shuttleworth assured that his dream was always to see Ubuntu on all computers and laptops, but also in the cloud and on IoT devices, although things have not turned out as they wanted. According to Shuttleworth, Ubuntu seems to be the most appropriate operating system at the moment for the Cloud computing and data centers.
In the interview, the CEO of Canonical also assures that Ubuntu for PCs / Laptops will continue to be important to Canonical, which will show its support for developers in the long term. However, to maintain its business, Canonical also has to focus on the cloud and cloud sector. Internet of Things.
"We are at the center of everything you have read about autonomous cars," said Mark Shuttleworth during his interview, which you can see in its entirety at the end of the article. Additionally, in the same discussion, the Ubuntu founder also talks about his return to Canonical's CEO role and about the company's ways of making money from OpenStack.
As a result of the abandonment of convergence, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS will bring the GNOME desktop environment by default, and not Unity. Also, the GNOME distribution has been merged directly with Ubuntu, so there will be no separate GNOME distribution.
Source: theCUBE
This Shuttlerworth inspires as much confidence in me as an atheist selling Bibles… For years I swear that convergence this, that convergence that, which is Canonical's priority. It offers a mobile with Ubuntu and when Unity 8 and convergence seemed to be around the corner, wham! A $ or $ chest $ alliance with Microsoft appears and to hell with years of work. I wouldn't suspect anything I suspect if it weren't that Microsoft revived the Continuum project for their mobiles just a couple of weeks after Canonical "killed" Unity and convergence. Chance? That does not exist.
they were sold
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Ubuntu is past. Unity was the big bet that was never accepted. Thank you Ubuntu for expanding Linux but until then, others took the "post" and did what Canonical could not do.