Ubuntu Linux, Mark Shuttleworth & Canonical Ltd. - Why Ubuntu Linux Will Succeed

Ubuntu Linux and Mark Shuttleworth

Mark Shuttleworth founded Ubuntu Linux in 2005 and provides financial backing - and several other products and services - for the Ubuntu Linux distribution through his company named Canonical Limited.

Here are some excerpts from Wikipedia on Mark Shuttleworth:

"Mark Shuttleworth founded Thawte in 1995, which specialized in digital certificates

and Internet security and then he sold it to VeriSign in December 1999, earning about 575 million US dollars at the time.

In the 1990s, Shuttleworth participated as a developer of Debian, a Linux distribution. In 2004 he returned to the free software world by funding the development of Ubuntu, a Linux distribution based on Debian, through his company Canonical Ltd.

In 2001 he formed the Shuttleworth Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to social innovation which also funds educational and free and open source software projects in South Africa, such as the Freedom Toaster.

In 2005 he founded the Ubuntu Foundation and made an initial investment of 10 million dollars in the Ubuntu project.

To come up with a list of names of people to hire for the project, he took six months of Debian mailing list archives with him while traveling to the Antarctic aboard the icebreaker Kapitan Khlebnikov in early 2004.

Ubuntu Linux Training Tips: The Ubuntu Linux distribution is based on (and derived from) the Debian Linux distribution, which is known for its strict policy of only using free and open source software (FOSS) in the distribution.

You can learn more about the Debian Linux distribution here: http://www.debian.org

On October 15, 2006 it was announced that Mark Shuttleworth became the first patron of KDE, the highest level of sponsorship available."

Ubuntu Linux Training Tips: The KDE desktop is used in the Kubuntu distribution - a variation of the Ubuntu distribution. The "K" in Kubuntu stands for KDE.

You can find out more about Mark Shuttleworth by reading his blog here:

http://www.markshuttleworth.com

Ubuntu Linux and Canonical Limited

Some of the main benefits of Canonical Ltd. are that you can pay for and get high-quality technical support and training for Ubuntu Linux.

Canonical Limited sells Ubuntu Linux CDs, DVDs, Ubuntu Linux training and technical support, software keys, and other Ubuntu Linux paraphernalia, like t-shirts, hats and mugs.

You can learn more about Canonical Limited at: http://www.canonical.com

Ubuntu Linux Training Tips: Canonical Limited is owned by Mark Shuttleworth and Ubuntu and Canonical are registered trademarks of Canonical Ltd.

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