Ubuntu to work more with larger Linux community
Some people hate Ubuntu. I know, I know, far, far more people love Ubuntu, but that doesn't change the fact that others really dislike it. Hate is not too strong a word.
Those who hate Ubuntu tend to fall into two groups. There are those who dislike Ubuntu because it makes Linux too easy. To these people, I say: "Get over it. Linux isn't just for people with EMACS macros hard-wired into their fingers anymore." The other group are those, usually Debian Linux users, who think Ubuntu, which is based on Debian, has 'stolen' their work and that its developers haven't contributed enough back to Debian or the other open-source communities that create Linux-related software.
That's about to change. Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, announced in his blog that Canonical will be "hiring a team who will work on X, OpenGL, Gtk, Qt, GNOME and KDE, with a view to doing some of the heavy lifting required to turn those desktop experience ideas into reality." "Those desktop experiences ideas" are Ubuntu's design ideas. Shuttleworth recently said he wanted the Linux desktop to be better than the Mac's interface. He's now putting his money behind this idea.
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The company plans to sign up designers and specialists in user experience and interaction to lead Canonical's work on usability and to contribute to other free and open-source desktop-environment projects, including Gnome and KDE, Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical chief executive and founder of the Ubuntu project, wrote in a blog post on Wednesday.
"We are hiring a team who will work on X, OpenGL, GTK, Qt, Gnome and KDE, with a view to doing some of the heavy lifting required to turn those desktop-experience ideas into reality," he wrote.
Shuttleworth has said recently that usability is the top priority for open-source software. Free Linux desktops should have "a user experience that can compete with Apple in two years", he said at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (Oscon) last week.
Shuttleworth: Open-source desktops need a facelift
And: Canonical to fund upstream Linux usability improvements
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