Showing posts with label Mark Shuttleworth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mark Shuttleworth. Show all posts
Friday, November 20, 2015
Mark Shuttleworth celebrates 10th Anniversary of Ubuntu by recalling Warty 4.10
Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and Canonical, officially announces the release of Ubuntu 4.10 codenamed as "The Warty Warthog Release" on the occasion of tenth anniversary of Ubuntu Linux. Its being a decade now and Ubuntu make its steps quite remarkable with lot of people around the glode uses Ubuntu and its derivatives for their personal and professional needs.
On this very particular occasion, Mark Shuttleworth also known as founder of Ubuntu and Canonical, announces the release of warm hearted Warthogs which was the first release of Ubuntu. Ten years ago, in his mailing list he claimed that, Ubuntu is a new Linux distribution which brings together the extraordinary breadth of Debian with a fast and easy install, regular releases, a tight selection of excellent packages installed by default and a commitment to security updates with 18 months of security and technical support for every release.
A decade ago, the Warty Warthog release provides simple and fast installation, GNOME 2.8, Firefox 0.9 with security patches, first class productivity software, Evolution 2.0 and OpenOffice.org 1.1.2, Xfree86 4.3 with improved hardware support along with other updates. Warty was installed in a minimalist mode for servers, or in full desktop mode. It worked very well on laptops and desktops.
Mark also claimed that the Warty release was also secure by design which means it was much safe from attack over the internet as much as it was while default installation. Mark Shuttleworth also express his reviews in blissful manner by gave thankful statement for its professional and volunteer team members who developed it 10 years ago.
Ubuntu distro is not a simple distro like others as it is absolutely committed to free software, every end user application on the CD is free software. You can easily download security updates for distribution at no charges for 18 months for any release. You can also update it to latest desktop and kernel and infrastructure every six months with a new release. It supports x86, amd64 and ppc processors with additional ports under way. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.
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Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Unity 8 will be introduced in Ubuntu 16.04 after taking Feedbacks from Users
Recently, Mark Shuttleworth announces that they prefer to take users reviews about Unity 8 before introducing it finally in the upcoming release which is Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. The Ubuntu developers think that they should include Unity 8 after taking feedbacks from Ubuntu users as it allows them to make improvements in further releases.
According to one of the announcement made by Silviu Stahie, it is clear that the community is still in doubt whether it is accepted by users or not. In his announcement, he says "Unity 8 is coming and I don't think users will be very open minded about all the changes. And there are going to be a lot of them."
The recently released Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" includes Unity 7 desktop environment and the Ubuntu Touch community is planning to introduce Unity 8 as default desktop environment in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Mark Shuttleworth also state that, "In a long list of life's lessons learned, 'be gentle pushing people onto your new code' is high up. So we won't require U8 for everyone even when it's first class. It will be opt in till most people agree it's better than U7". You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.
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