I know we give Ubuntu and Canonical a hard time but I think we’ve got a lot to thank them for. They pretty much spearheaded the movement to change the image of Linux being purely for geeks, and I think there’s a lot of non-enterprise software support that simply wouldn’t be there without them drumming up interest.
Canonical is based in London, and Mark Shuttleworth is a British dual-citizen who has lived in the UK for more than 25 years (since before Ubuntu was founded).
Say what you like about the quality of the man or of the distro, but it is undeniably British.
Ubuntu is British though.
I mean sure, our government have been pretty dick to Europeans, but you aren’t impacting the US by avoiding it.
Ubuntu is South African. And Mark Shuttleworth is a tiny Elon from what I hear from people who either worked for him or applied to work at Canonical.
I’ve been using either Ubuntu or Lubuntu for the past 15 years but planning on switching to Debian in the near future.
I know we give Ubuntu and Canonical a hard time but I think we’ve got a lot to thank them for. They pretty much spearheaded the movement to change the image of Linux being purely for geeks, and I think there’s a lot of non-enterprise software support that simply wouldn’t be there without them drumming up interest.
Canonical is based in London, and Mark Shuttleworth is a British dual-citizen who has lived in the UK for more than 25 years (since before Ubuntu was founded).
Say what you like about the quality of the man or of the distro, but it is undeniably British.
Mark Shuttleworth is South African, however Canonical is based out of London.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_(company)